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The Supreme Court permitted governments to withdraw cases against student protesters. NEW DELHI: Paving the way for the dropping of cases against student protesters, Supreme Court on Monday permitted Delhi and state govts to withdraw or close FIRs lodged during NEET paper leak protests in different parts of India and said these youngsters must be…
NEW DELHI: India performed a record 20,138 organ transplants in 2025, crossing the 20,000-mark for the first time and registered a 6.5% increase over the previous year, according to National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation’s (NOTTO) annual report. The figure marks a fourfold rise from 4,990 transplants in 2013.Delhi-NCR recorded the highest number of transplants…
JAMMU: Two rusted mortar shells were found in two villages near the Pakistan border in Jammu’s Poonch on Monday and were safely destroyed later by the Army’s bomb disposal squad, officials said. Some villagers found one shell in Mankote area and alerted security forces, the officials said. The other shell was spotted on a farm…
NEW DELHI: Rejecting Meta’s apology for taking down a PM Narendra Modi’s video, a parliamentary committee Monday sought a personal apology from its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and warned of seeking removal of its safe harbour protection if he failed to comply, its chairperson Nishikant Dubey said.Dubey said removal of the PM’s video was…
FSSAI has prohibited adding rum or whisky flavour to spirits. NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has said alcoholic beverage manufacturers cannot add “rum flavour” to rum or “whisky flavour” to whisky and market them as standard products, saying the practice misrepresents the true nature of the beverage and misleads…
Polling for Bankipur assembly byelection was held on July 30 (Representative photo) NEW DELHI: While the spotlight is on Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, who emerged victorious in his very first electoral outing by wresting BJP bastion Bankipur from the saffron party, “Nitish Kumar” and “Lalu Prasad Yadav” were not as fortunate.The namesakes of…
Indian Army athletes secured 16 medals at the recent CWG. These included 8 gold, 7 silver, and 1 bronze medal. 2 Indian Navy personnel also contributed silver medals in weightlifting. NEW DELHI: In the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow, Indian military personnel have a lion’s share in winning medals for the country. The Indian…
FSSAI suspended a Tripura water company’s license and banned a Punjab supplement. Inspections revealed serious food safety and regulatory violations at the water facility. NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has suspended the licence of a packaged drinking water manufacturer in Tripura and prohibited the manufacture, storage, distribution and sale…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh addresses the AFHQ Civilian Services Day celebrations at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday underlined the need to deepen integration between the military and civil components of the defence ministry to foster greater synergy within the defence ecosystem to tackle evolving security…
Glaw Lake in Himachal Pradesh NEW DELHI: India’s one more wetland, Glaw Lake of Arunachal Pradesh, has entered the global list of protected wetlands as a Ramsar site. It is the country’s 101st such site and the state’s first to join the elite club for additional care and conservation.Located within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and…
