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CHENNAI: Speaker JCD Prabhakar on Tuesday accepted the handwritten resignation letter of former Minister and sitting Ambasamudram MLA Esakki Subbaiah, after initially rejecting a typed version.Subbaiah is expected to join the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). This follows Monday’s resignations of three MLAs from the rebel camp led by former AIADMK ministers C Ve Shanmugam…

Quad meeting in Delhi: Terrorism, maritime security and energy dominate talks (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Quad on Tuesday announced a raft of new initiatives including maritime surveillance cooperation, port infrastructure in Fiji, a critical minerals framework, and an energy security initiative, as foreign ministers of the four nations met in New Delhi for…

Congress slams 4th fuel hike in 10 days, calls PM Modi ‘Inflation Man’, ‘Mehengai Manav’ NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge warned that “fuel loot” will have a cascading effect on every aspect of the economy, and will hurt the poor and the middle class. He pointed out that the Modi govt has increased petrol…

THANE: The Tieten Medicity Hospital successfully performed one of Thane’s first robotic telesurgeries for gall bladder removal (robotic cholecystectomy) using the indigenously developed Mizzo Endo 4000 robotic surgical system.The robotic procedure was performed through a secure 5G-enabled network with an ultra-low latency of less than 10 milliseconds. The surgery was remotely performed on the patient…

NEW DELHI: One in six adolescents in rural north India reported facing a major stressful event within just six months, with academic pressure, poverty, bullying, domestic violence and family conflict emerging as major triggers behind depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts among teenagers, according to an AIIMS-linked study that warns of a widening but largely invisible…

AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale…

NEW DELHI: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a swift operation, 300 tourists have been evacuated stranded in a cable car in Gulmarg. The rescue operation is followed by a technical glitch resulted in halting of Gulmarg Gondola service at the north Kashmir tourist resort of Gulmarg on Monday.Sharing a post on X, he said,…

NEW DELHI: BJP brass has stepped in to set its house in order in Karnataka, where its state unit has been plagued by discordant voices, turning its gaze to the only southern state where the party has been in power amid the view that it has not been able to effectively exploit the “anti-incumbency” sentiments…

MUMBAI: India’s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued detailed Ebola preparedness protocols for airlines operating flights linked to Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, mandating health screening measures, onboard isolation procedures and compulsory self-declaration forms for passengers arriving in India.The order, issued following a World Health Organization alert on the…

NEW DELHI: Airlines flying in people to India who have been to Ebola hotzones in Africa including Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda will now have to ensure such passengers file self declaration forms (SDF) before arrival here. Thermal screening will be done on passengers coming from the hotspots.In a move reminiscent of Covid…