DH Evening Brief | Bommai made CM in exchange for money, alleges Siddaramaiah; Jet Airways a step closer to flying

Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah on Sunday hit out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai alleging that he is not an elected CM, and was appointed to the coveted post in exchange for money.

. Amid the ongoing survey at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi to find out if there is any proof that the mosque had been constructed after demolishing a part of the temple, a petition was filed in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, seeking a direction to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open the closed rooms inside the Taj Mahal to ascertain if there were Hindu idols and scriptures there.

. Union home ministry has granted security clearance to Jet Airways that is planning to relaunch commercial flight operations in the next few months, according to an official document.

The Jalan-Kalrock Consortium is currently the promoters of Jet Airways. The airline in its old avatar was owned by Naresh Goyal and had operated its last flight on April 17, 2019.

. Riding on resurging global growth after two muted years of the Covid-19 pandemic, India surpassed $400 billion in exports in FY22, an all-time high for the country, comfortably higher than the five-year average of $300 billion before coronavirus struck. According to the government, the exports stood at $417 billion, which is roughly $48 million every hour.

. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said the recent interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank was not surprising for her but the timing was, asserting that the rising cost of funds will not impact the government's planned infrastructure investments.

. Amid a war of words over the use of bulldozer in the country, the BJP on Sunday hit back at the Congress and said that it was Indira Gandhi who first ordered the use of bulldozers on minorities at the Turkman Gate.

. A cooling Western Disturbance (WD) is being disrupted due to the changing weather patterns, a result of climate change, exacerbating India's already severe heatwave, according to experts.

To understand what this means, we have to first understand what a western disturbance is and the role it plays in the climate process.

. At least 13 cadres belonging to All Adivasi National Liberation Army (AANLA), a militant group in Assam laid down their weapons before security forces in Karbi Anglong district on Sunday hours before Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to the state.

. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has opened arbitrage opportunities so enticing that Reliance Industries Ltd. deferred maintenance work at the world’s biggest oil refining complex to churn out more diesel and naphtha after prices surged.

DH Evening Brief | Bommai made CM in exchange for money, alleges Siddaramaiah; Jet Airways a step closer to flying

Bommai not elected Karnataka CM, was appointed in exchange for money: Siddaramaiah

Petition in Allahabad HC seeks opening 'closed rooms' in Taj Mahal to ascertain existence of temple

Home ministry grants security clearance to Jet Airways

India's rising exports: A look at sectors that are driving this growth

Rate hike wasn't surprising, timing was: Sitharaman

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