CHENNAI: TVK president Joseph Vijay joined the populist bandwagon of Dravidian majors, announcing a slew of freebies in the party’s election manifesto, ranging from 2,500 monthly dole for women to 25 lakh health insurance coverage for families. Most of the promises targeted youth and women. Vijay told party workers that he would visit Perambur and…
Hyderabad: Telangana IT & industries minister D Sridhar Babu invited US companies to invest in the state’s fast-growing aerospace, defence and space sectors, pitching the state as a strategic manufacturing and technology hub during a meeting with a US National War College delegation in Hyderabad on Thursday.He sought collaboration with US companies, universities and research…
Kolkata: Spells of thundershower pushed the mercury down on Thursday in Kolkata. While the showers were not uniform across the city in terms of intensity and duration, most pockets received a spell or two, bringing a respite from the scorching sun. The Met office has not ruled out another nor’wester spell between Thursday and Friday…
Panaji: The Bombay high court found that govt officials failed to follow the childcare leave (CCL) policy and directed them to strictly comply with it to ensure its purpose is met.The high court said that even if the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB), where the petitioner’s wife worked, was understaffed, its director should…
Varanasi: The results of CBSE Class X were announced on Wednesday with a large number of students doing exceptionally well in the board exams.DPS Varanasi achieved 100% results with all 284 students passing in first division. The school’s top performers include Shubhangi Pandey (99%), Prakriti Dubey (98.4%) and Shalini Singh (98.2%).The students of Sunbeam Academy…
Ahmedabad: In an open ground at IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn), Vijay Kumar and Subhadra Dhurve from Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh demonstrate a centuries-old iron smelting technique, drawing attention from researchers across India and abroad. Working beside a clay cone furnace, the couple takes turns pumping air into a funnel using a traditional apparatus made of…
Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had been repeatedly changing goal posts on women’s reservation as she decried that “the delimitation exercise was being conducted in the garb of the women’s reservation bill”.Speaking on the bill in Parliament, she said, “SAD supported the women’s…
Pune: The Vishrantwadi police on Wednesday registered a case of assertions prejudicial to national integration against two students for playing and dancing to a song based on Hidma Madavi, the Naxalite commander gunned down last year by security forces.“The two students, pursuing BBA course in a college on Bund Garden Road, had selected the song….
Shillong: The two prominent indigenous tribal languages of Meghalaya — Khasi and Garo — are now full-fledged official languages of the state, alongside English, which had been the sole official language until the cabinet on April 16 approved the Meghalaya Official Languages Ordinance, 2026, repealing the Meghalaya State Language Act, 2005.Khasi and Garo had previously…
Residents sift through the charred remains of their homes, searching for fragments of their lives a day after a devastating fire in a slum near Tedhipulia in Vikas Nagar, on Thursday Lucknow: Bodies of two sisters, a toddler and an infant, were recovered on Thursday morning after a massive fire gutted over 280 shanties and…
