Prakhar Purohit. Image Credit: Young Scientists Lab Prakhar Purohit, a student from North Carolina, has earned recognition for a science project with a unique yet simple-sounding idea of ‘making tiny batteries from dirty water.’ His project, titled ‘Tiny Batteries from Dirty Water,’ was selected as the 2026 North Carolina State Merit Winner in the 3M…
New Delhi: CBI has filed an FIR against certain former officials of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation (NERAMAC), and some private entities in connection with allegations of irregularities in the allotment of rice.FCI, Delhi Region, officials are accused of bypassing rules to allocate 62,000 MT of rice to…
Mumbai: BMC received recommendation letters for the transfer or promotion of as many as 225 officials and employees over the past year. The recommendations were made by Union ministers, state cabinet ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and corporators cutting across party lines, as mentioned against respective names on the list. This information was obtained by activist…
Representational picture for Gruha Lakshmi Scheme Bengaluru: Facing fire over crores being credited to the bank accounts of deceased Gruha Lakshmi beneficiaries, the state govt Monday said it had recovered around 36% of the wrongly paid Rs 117.5 crore and was working to recover the rest.Chief minister D K Shivakumar Monday reviewed the implementation of…
Chennai: A man who opened actor Varun’s car using a duplicate key and stole diamond and gold jewellery, a laptop and a wristwatch last month, was arrested by Mylapore police on Sunday.Police said Varun visited Mylapore last month to attend a wedding and parked his car on the roadside. After the event, he found his…
Hyderabad: An AIMIM functionary was stabbed to death by a group of assailants near his home in Vattepally in Falaknuma area on Sunday night, with police probing whether the killing was linked to a long-standing family grudge stemming from suspicions of black magic.Mohammed Mahboob Ali, 53, a resident of Fatima Nagar in Vattepally, was an…
Gurgaon: A 30-year-old labourer was killed when a dispute with his contractor over Rs 500 escalated into a violent attack in Gandhi Colony, Faridabad, on Sunday night. The accused first struck the labourer, Sagar(30), on his head with a beer bottle and then attacked him in the neck with the glass shard.The injured man was…
The operation was carried out during routine border checks when SSB personnel flagged a group of six females traveling under suspicious circumstances alongside two adult males Kolkata: A joint operation by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at Panitanki in north Bengal and anti-trafficking organization Kosi Lok Manch, successfully intercepted a cross-border human trafficking attempt on…
The sleeper bus where the 16-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped Noida: The sleeper bus in which a 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped on Aug 4 was registered on April 28 this year in the name of Firozabad resident Anil Jadaun and had an all-India permit, Noida assistant regional transport officer Udit Narayan Pandey said. The…
Porvorim: Goa govt on Monday decided not to introduce its proposed anti-conversion bill in the assembly during the monsoon session.There were concerns among BJP MLAs over politicisation of the issue among minority voters and the opposition gaining a strong issue ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.“We will not introduce the bill,” chief minister Pramod Sawant…
