India’s first hydrogen train (Photo: Ministry of railways) India’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train has begun running on the Jind-Sonipat route. Its promise lies not in burning a new fuel, but in using hydrogen to generate electricity onboard — with water vapour as the only direct emission.A hydrogen train is, in effect, an electric train that…
NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Saturday claimed that he was “beaten and put under detention” by the Delhi Police as chaos erupted at Jantar Mantar after Sonam Wangchuk was taken to hospital.In a social media post on X, Dipke alleged that the Delhi Police was cracking down at Jantar Mantar and…
Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital has been designated as the nodal centre for any medical emergency involving the protesters NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday morning after completing 20 days of his indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar, less than 48 hours after the Union health…
Sonam Wangchuk removed from Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk was removed from Jantar Mantar early Saturday and taken to hospital as his hunger strike against alleged irregularities in the NEET examination entered Day 21.Wangchuk was removed from the stage 48 hours before his planned march to Parliament, which is scheduled for the first…
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee Friday abruptly decided to defer the adoption of its report on a contentious bill – which seeks automatic removal of the Prime Minister, chief ministers and ministers from office if they are detained for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges – when its members were in the middle of…
NEW DELHI: At 213 marks, NEET-UG recorded its highest ever qualifying cutoff, even as the number of candidates clearing the medical entrance examination fell by 1.15 lakh, a divergence driven by a smaller-appearing pool and a sharp upward shift in the score distribution. Moreover, the total qualified candidates for EWS and OBC for the first…
NEW DELHI: The Centre told Supreme Court Friday that visa and consular services, which are outsourced, offered to lakhs of Indian nationals, OCIs and foreign visa applicants were severely impacted in Indian missions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait, Singapore and Canberra (Australia) as Delhi high court had quashed the selection of private service providers.“We outsource…
NEW DELHI: The May NEET-UG paper tested what they knew. Its cancellation tested whether they could go again. And they restarted – reacquiring given-away books in Ludhiana, extending a break from mobile phone in Baramati, preparing in Hindi in Hanumangarh and studying through power cuts in Srinagar. The scrapping of the May exam over a…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
