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If you bought a foreign-made drone or router and quietly panicked when the government started banning them, here’s some relief. The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology published a formal notice on May 8 extending the software update window for already-owned devices to January 1, 2029—nearly two years longer than originally planned.The previous deadlines were…
Veteran actress Moushumi Chatterjee, who has shared a long marriage of more than five decades with music composer Jayanta Mukherjee, recently reflected on how dramatically her life changed during her teenage years. The actress, who got married at just 15 and became a mother by 17, went on to become one of Hindi cinema’s most…
For every 70 people losing sight to corneal blindness, only one donor tissue is available worldwide. And in India, where around 1 lakh new corneal transplants are needed annually, only 30,000 can be provided. Currently, corneal transplants rely entirely on donated corneas from cadavers, but demand far outstrips supply. Researchers hope to bridge that gap…
JAIPUR: CBI on Tuesday took over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak probe after Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) said “paper leak mafia” had sold a leaked question paper disguised as a “guess paper”, containing all 90 biology and 45 chemistry questions from the May 3 exam – for Rs 10 lakh to Rs 25…
Following inputs from Rajasthan Police, Nashik crime branch detained Shubham Khairnar, who investigators believe may hold key information on how the paper moved through the network. NEW DELHI: Nashik Police on Tuesday detained 30-year-old Shubham Khairnar, a resident of Nandgaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, in connection with the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case that…
KOLKATA: Jadavpur University, one of the incubation centres for left-liberal ideas in Bengal, saw its first RSS morning drill on Tuesday within days of BJP taking office in the state.The entry into JU — where students’ unions have always been controlled by leftand far-left-leaning organisations — signals a remarkable rise of RSS in Bengal, where…
NEW DELHI: “We were only four girls in the maths honours class. We were wanted everywhere — societies, sports, drama club — because there were hardly any women on campus.”When Nandita Narain walked into St Stephen’s College in 1976, women were still a novelty at the institution that had opened its doors to female students…
Anushka Sharma’s recent jewellery brand ad sparked a social media debate, with some netizens calling her ‘unrecognisable’ and speculating about cosmetic procedures, while fans defended her beauty and called out double standards. On the work front, she awaits the release of her upcoming biopic ‘Chakda Xpress’ opposite Jhulan Goswami. Anushka Sharma has been keeping a…
Mother cheetah KGP12 with four cubs in Kuno National Park on April 11 Bhopal: Barely a month after their birth was celebrated as a historic milestone for India’s cheetah restoration project, four cubs born to the country’s first wild-breeding India-born cheetah were found dead near their den site in Kuno National Park in Sheopur district…
Police led by DCP Central Zone Vikrant Vir visited the residence of BJP leader Aparna Yadav as part of the investigation into the death of Prateek Yadav in Lucknow, officials said on Wednesday. LUCKNOW: Police led by DCP Central Zone Vikrant Vir visited the residence of BJP leader Aparna Yadav as part of the investigation…
