इजी मेहंदीEarlier this month, authorities successfully prevented 12 child marriages that were to take place on the auspicious day of Akshay Tritiya in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district. The authorities intervened following calls received on a helpline, alerting officials to the illegal marriages. Notably, all these calls were made by classmates of the girls being forced into marriage. The classmates knew who to call as the helpline number had been strategically published on school report cards across the districts as part of efforts to combat child marriages.To provide ‘qualified’ teachers in schools, colleges, and degree colleges under it, the education department of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has awarded a tender worth Rs 3.4 crore to a detective agency.The company’s consolidated revenue for the full FY24 crossed the Rs 10 lakh crore mark from Rs 9.74 lakh crore in FY23. It also became the first Indian company to cross the Rs 100,000-crore threshold in pre-tax profits. Tax expenses increased sharply by 138.8 per cent year-on-year to Rs 6,577 crore due to availing of tax credits in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.