Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Chairman SR Srinivas has said that a bus fare hike is unavoidable due to rising oil prices. He explained that it has been five years since the last fare increase in 2019, and current economic conditions necessitate an adjustment to cover operational costs and support employee benefits.

"The last bus ticket price increase was in 2019. It has been five years since then without any increase. Due to the rise in oil prices, a fare hike is inevitable. To increase salaries and provide benefits to employees, adjusting the rates is necessary," Srinivas said.

After former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination, his wife and former First Lady Melania Trump urged Americans to "ascend above the hate" and work towards realising a world where "love transcends". A 20-year-old gunman fired multiple shots at Trump, 78, at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, injuring his right ear.

In her first public response, 54-year-old Melania said, "This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence.

Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Sunday, stating that violence cannot be normalised at any cost and emphasising that differences in America are "resolved at ballot boxes, not with bullets."

In his Oval Office address Sunday evening, President Joe Biden stated that while some Americans disagree on the country's future, "politics must never be a battlefield."

As the investigation progressed into the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, explosive material has been recovered from inside the car and residence of the shooter, CNN reported, citing multiple law enforcement sources.

The FBI has publicly identified the gunman as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Trump was on stage at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania's Butler before gunshots rang out and Secret Service agents stormed the stage.

The Congress-led INDIA bloc secured victories on nine assembly seats and were leading on one seat in the by-polls held at various seats, according to the latest updates on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won two seats. One independent candidate in Bihar’s Rupauli, Shankar Singh, won by a margin of 8200 votes, the counting trend showed.

The Gaza Health Ministry said 71 people were killed in an Israeli attack Saturday in the south of the war-stricken enclave.

The ministry said 289 others were injured in the attack that struck the Khan Younis area. It said that many of the injured and dead were taken to nearby Nasser Hospital.

The Odisha government is set to unlock the 'Ratna Bhandar', the revered treasury of Lord Jagannath temple in Puri, on Sunday after 46 years for an inventory of the ornaments and other valuables, officials said.

The treasury was last opened in 1978.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which looks after the maintenance of the 12th century shrine, will use the opportunity to carry out repairs, they added.

The government has denied extension to BSNL Chairman and Managing Director P K Purwar and is likely to give the charge to a senior department of telecom officer Robert J Ravi, official sources said.

Purwar, who took charge as BSNL CMD in July 2019 for five years, had applied for an extension.

HCLTech, India’s third-largest information-technology services company, has maintained its FY25 revenue growth guidance in the range of 3-5 per cent.

Noida-headquartered HCLTech’s net profits for the first quarter of FY25 came in at Rs 4,257 crore.

Profits were up 20.4 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y), and grew 6.8 per cent sequentially.

It is conceivable that India can become the world’s second-largest economy by 2031 and the largest economy by 2060, given the country’s inherent strengths, said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra.

Speaking at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie on Tuesday, he said that price stability was the best contribution monetary policy could make to strengthen the foundations for long-term growth.

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