Bengaluru: Over 1.7 lakh students have registered for the II PU examination-2, scheduled to be held from Thursday.According to official data, 92,554 boys and 79,597 girls have enrolled for the second exam. A large portion of these candidates — 82,746 students — are those who could not clear their exam in the first attempt.The figures…
Thousands of transgender women transitioned from ‘brides’ to ‘widows’ in a ritual reenactment of the Mahabharata legend during the Koothandavar festival at the temple dedicated to Lord Aravan at Koovagam near Ulundurpet in Kallakurichi district on Wednesday. The transition follows the symbolic sacrifice of Lord Aravan, son of one of the Pancha Pandavas, Arjuna, who,…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed a petition by a retired railway engineer seeking to quash money laundering charges, holding that the absence of “prior sanction” did not invalidate the case as the alleged acts had no reasonable connection with official duties.A bench of Justice N Tukaramji said the law provided safeguards to protect public…
Panaji: Goa University (GU) is introducing nine integrated master’s programmes from the academic year 2026-27, which students who have completed Class XII can pursue. The duration of each course will five years.Students who have completed Class XII in the science stream can join the programmes for integrated masters in earth sciences with a minor in…
Varanasi: Damru before the 2022 assembly polls, trishul before the 2024 Varanasi Lok Sabha fight — both at Kashi Vishwanath Temple. On Wednesday, as Bengal’s last phase began, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged from the sanctum holding trishul and damru together.Amid conch shells resounding and Vedic chants rising from 108 batuks of Annapurna Rishikul Brahmcharya…
Bathinda: The crop residue burning incidents continued to rise in both Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday, with the two states recording the highest one-day counts in the ongoing wheat harvesting season.While Punjab reported 447 new crop residue burning incidents, Haryana recorded 376 cases. The Wednesday figures pushed the total count past the 1,000 mark in…
Lucknow: Popping a surprise in political circles, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday called upon BJP MLA Anupama Jaiswal who is undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital in Lucknow to inquire about her health. She had suffered facial burns while burning Akhilesh’s effigy during a protest in Bahraich on April 25.“We don’t want to see…
EUT20 Belgium Jersey Launch event in Mumbai on Wednesday Destino Legends Sports LLC, in partnership with the Belgian Cricket Federation, on Wednesday formally introduced EUT20 Belgium to India at a press conference held in Mumbai. The event unveiled the league’s franchise ownership group, launched the official jerseys of all five city-based teams, and gave India…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal could be on the cusp of “poriborton” with the exit polls predicting a hung assembly that could mark the end of Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year-old rule in the state. Most of the exit polls projected a neck-and-neck race between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP in West Bengal.And the other…
Rory McIlroy acknowledges President Trump and the guests at the White House banquet/ Image: X It was meant to be a carefully paced evening at the White House, a formal state dinner hosted by Donald Trump for King Charles III and Queen Camilla, with the usual rhythm of prepared remarks and polite applause, until the…
