Chandigarh: A Class X student’s question at a state function on Sunday prompted Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to scrap the age-based tie-breaker used to rank students with identical scores in board examinations.The change came after Gagandeep Kaur, one of three students from Amritsar district who secured 637 marks each in the Punjab School Education…
Pune: The Koregaon Park police on Saturday registered a case against a car driver who ran his vehicle over Molly, a dog, on the premises of a housing society in Boat Club road area on May 24.According to local animal welfare volunteers, Molly was 15 years old, peaceful and fed by residents. A resident registered…
Officials giving final touch to training ahead of Census 2027 starts in Surat Surat: Along with the rest of Gujarat, Surat will begin the digital population count for Census 2027 from Monday, marking the country’s first-ever digital census exercise. The upcoming enumeration will be the 16th Census in India and the eighth since Independence. The…
The new species of cascade-dwelling frog from Nagaland Guwahati: A team of researchers from Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has discovered and described a new species of cascade-dwelling frog from Nagaland, naming it ‘Amolops Kamal’ in honour of Dr Kamal Choudhury, former head of the department of Zoology at B Barooah College, Guwahati.“I was a…
Lucknow: A 24-year-old woman, married six months ago, was found hanging at her matrimonial home in Saadatganj area on Sunday, prompting police to register a dowry death case against her husband and other in-laws after her family alleged she was being harassed for dowry and a car.According to police, the woman had married a resident…
Manoharlal Vishnoi arrested by the ANTF Jaipur: The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) Sunday arrested a drug trafficker from Jalore who had evaded police for more than three years by avoiding mobile phones and operating through a shadow network centred around a motor garage in Jalore.IG (ANTF) Vikas Kumar identified the accused as Manoharlal Vishnoi, a…
NEW DELHI: The enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Manipur has started, the Election Commission said on Sunday.The poll authority had launched phase 3 of SIR in 16 states and three Union territories on May 14 in a staggered manner During the enumeration phase which…
A Rhode Island couple who spent more than $600 on a Donald Trump-branded watch were left shocked when the product arrived with a mistake.Tim Petit bought the watch as a gift for his wife, Melanie, after hearing a radio advertisement featuring US President Donald Trump’s voice promoting a range of luxury watches.Browsing the website, Tim…
Alesha Dixon is a famed English singer, rapper, dancer, model, and host, who is best known for her iconic pop garage group, Mis-Teeq. The star has been active in the industry for years now and has been an active judge on the reality TV show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ as well. Read ahead to know more…
NEW DELHI: For nearly two decades, Virat Kohli has lived and breathed Royal Challengers Bengaluru. On Sunday night in Ahmedabad, he finally experienced a moment he had imagined countless times.After smashing the winning six to seal RCB’s second IPL title and complete a successful title defence against Gujarat Titans, Kohli revealed that finishing the chase…
