NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Reuters) – India’s wholesale prices rose 9.78% year-on-year in July after a 9.87% rise in the previous month, government data released on Friday showed. Economists polled by Reuters had projected wholesale prices to rise 9.95% year-on-year.
Bengaluru, Aug 14 (PTI) Congress MLA Gurupadagouda Sanganagouda Patil was elected Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Friday. Popularly known as G S Patil, his name was proposed by Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and seconded by Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara. Pro-tem Speaker T B Jayachandra, who presided over the proceedings, declared Patil elected after a voice vote. The Opposition BJP and JD(S) boycotted the Speaker election. The post fell vacant following the resignation of U T Khader ahead of his induction into the Shivakumar-led Council of Ministers on June 3. Patil is a four-time MLA from the
New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) The Centre on Friday notified 40 questions — caste, place of Covid vaccination being two of them — to be asked of respondents during the population enumeration phase of the Census, set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, a government order said. The order from Registrar General of India Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan notifies questions such as whether the person belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe and their caste. The population enumeration in Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, will take place from September
August 14, 2026 (Conversation) Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are mistaken. We are behavioral scientists who study the role of beliefs in politics and everyday life. Our new research finds that people are more disturbed by others’ beliefs when they feel those beliefs are not merely different from their own but are based on incorrect information. For example, two people may disagree about the ideal level of immigration, but if one believes
