NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai on Wednesday intensified its crackdown on pesky calls and messages with new rules, that prescribe fines ranging from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh for recurring and repeated instances of violation, in cases where telcos misreport the count of such spams.The regulator has mandated all telecom operators to analyse…
With Delhi Assembly elections set for Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R Alice Vaz revealed that over 6,000 complaints regarding Model Code of Conduct (MCC) violations have been registered in the past 25 days.Swift action on MCC violationsVaz emphasized that campaign permissions are granted through an online system without interference. She also highlighted the role…
Perdue Farms and JBS, two of the country’s biggest meatpackers, will pay a combined $8 million after the Department of Labor found the companies relied for years on migrant children to work in their slaughterhouses. The deals, announced this week, are part of a flurry of child labor settlements that have come in the last…
U.S. securities regulators sued Elon Musk in federal court in Washington on Tuesday in an enforcement action arising from his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X. The lawsuit against Mr. Musk, who has become a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, is likely to be one of the more contentious final acts…
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has been conducting “operational raids” in recent weeks on Mount Hermon in Syria, continuing a military campaign on Syrian soil that is drawing increasing international condemnation. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based Syrian war monitor, on Sunday also reported airstrikes around the Syrian capital, Damascus,…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday issued a show cause notice to Akasa for alleged lapses in its operations manual and for the airline’s director (flight operations) “failing to ensure compliance of civil aviation requirements (CAR or DGCA rules.” This notice comes within a week of the regulator issuing a…