Miffed over being placed 28th in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) ranking 2019 covering states and Union Territories, Kerala on Monday held that the process lacked clarity on some counts and asked the Centre to disclose the criteria applied in deciding the ranking.

Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation's Managing Director S. Harikishore (KSIDC) said that his organisation, as the state's nodal agency for industrial promotion, has approached Centre seeking the details in this regard.

The EoDB ranking was published on September 5.

The novel coronavirus seemed like a distant problem in Boisar, a small factory town about two hours from Mumbai, until Daniel Tribhuvan died.

Bengaluru, Sept 8: Congress worker Kavitha Reddy has been booked under sections 323, 504(b), and 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in connection with an alleged attack on actor Samyuktha Hegde, according to the HSR Layout Police Station, Bengaluru.

Bengaluru, Sept 8: The Central Crime Branch probing the drug abuse in the Kannada film industry, on Tuesday arrested actress Sanjjanaa Galrani here, police sources said.

Bengaluru, Sept 8: Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi, arrested in a drugs case, was produced in court on Monday which sent her to 5-day custody, according to Central Crime Brance (CCB).

Mangaluru, Sept 7: Mobile forest squad of forest officials have busted a racket involved in trafficking of blackbuck skin and have arrested six persons.

Telecom operator Vodafone Idea will offer its services under a new brand name Vi, as merger and integration of Vodafone and Idea has been successfully completed.

In a statement, the company said that the coming together of the two brands has culminated into the largest telecom integration in the world.

Mangaluru, Sept 7: As many as 90 people accused in drugs peddling cases were paraded at the Police Parade grounds in Mangaluru today.

Moscow, Sept 7: The clinical trials of Sputnik V vaccine for coronavirus will be held this month in several countries including India, confirmed Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Monday.