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NEW DELHI: Eight elephants were killed and one injured after a herd was hit by the Sairang New Delhi Rajdhani Express in Assam’s Hojai district in the early hours of Saturday, a forest official said. Five coaches and the engine of the New Delhi bound train were derailed in the incident, though no injuries to…
MADURAI: A 40-year-old auto driver allegedly immolated himself inside a police booth in Madurai Thursday in protest over the Thiruparankundram Deepam row. Police said no one was in the booth when Poorna Chandran allegedly doused himself in diesel and set himself ablaze. Cops said Chandran had sent a WhatsApp voice note to his friends and…
NEW DELHI: In a first of its kind order, Supreme Court has imposed a cost of Rs 10 crore each on 10 private dental colleges in Rajasthan for admitting students who did not secure threshold marks in NEET 2016-17, the basis for admission to all medical and dental courses across India.A bench of Justices J…
Dr Nusrat Parveen, who shot into the limelight following a viral video from an appointment ceremony earlier this month in which Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is seen tugging at her hijab, is set to join her position at Patna’s Govt Tibbi College at 10am on Saturday, reports Ismat Ara. “Yes, she will join work,” college…
Former US President Barack Obama’s annual list of favourite films, music and books has a way of turning personal taste into global buzz. When Prateek Kuhad’s cold/mess featured on his 2019 playlist, it made the singer hot property overnight. This year, Obama’s reading list has done something rarer still: it has brought together two generations…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said on Friday that the right to free speech is not unfettered and denied anticipatory bail to a Bengaluru-based 24-year-old chartered accountancy student, who, on his parody account ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Satire’ on X, had posted about the PM and his mother. The court said the student can approach Gujarat HC for…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate Friday moved Delhi high court challenging a trial court’s Dec 16 order that dismissed its prosecution complaint (equivalent to a police chargesheet) against Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and others, in the National Herald laundering case. The criminal revision petition is likely to be listed for hearing next week.ED…
NEW DELHI: Raising the battle stakes over MGNREGA with the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said Congress will force the Modi govt to withdraw the disbanding of the job guarantee scheme, with the party warning that farmers’ protest forced the Centre to roll back the “three black farm laws”. ‘Congress also warned that after…
SRINAGAR: Adventure Tour Operators Association of India (ATOAI), the national representative body of Indian adventure tour operators, on Friday described J&K as a safe and secure tourist destination, calling for the reopening of all spots closed by the Union Territory administration after the Pahalgam terror attack.Addressing a press conference, ATOAI president Ajeet Bajaj said the…
Artem Oganov, Chairman of the VYZOV Prize Scientific Committee The VYZOV Prize has expanded its international footprint in 2025, drawing applications from researchers across 40 countries and reinforcing its evolution from a national award into a global scientific honour.The prize, which recognises high-technology research with potential for practical application within the next decade, received 632…
