Silchar: Forest department officials have arrested seven poachers during a raid in the Adamtilla area of the Patharia forest reserve in Sribhumi district.Acting on a tip-off about illegal activity inside the restricted zone, a team led by range officer Manash Jyoti Saikia launched an operation on Wednesday afternoon and apprehended seven individuals who had allegedly…
Ludhiana: Rising steel prices have emerged as a major concern for exporters and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) manufacturers, with industry leaders saying sustained increases in raw material costs were squeezing margins and threatening competitiveness.The Federation of Industrial & Commercial Organization (FICO) has stated that abnormal fluctuations were hurting downstream industries, particularly micro, small…
SLUG: CONG D’GERE QUAGMIRE Bengaluru: Chief minister Siddaramaiah removed his political secretary Naseer Ahmed and pulled up cabinet colleague B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan amid allegations of anti-party activities in the run-up to the April 9 Davanagere South assembly bypoll. A notification from Siddaramaiah’s office Monday night stated Ahmed, a member of the legislative council,…
Himanta leads 50-memberAssam brigade into Bengal GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma onThursday stormed into WestBengal’s campaign arenawith a 50-member delegationof MPs, ministers, MLAs andstate office bearers, carryingAssam’s playbook into theneighbouring state againstCM Mamata Banerjee andTrinamool Congress.Pitching Assam’s decadelong governance record as amodel at three campaign rallies in Cooch Behar, Kalchiniand Phansidewa, Sarma said, “In…
Elon Musk has been extremely critical of ChatGPT maker OpenAI for deviating from its mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity and taking a profit-making path. He has advocated that artificial intelligence (AI) should be accessible for all, and he has now announced that his AI startup xAI will open source Grok chatbot…
A Delhi University student claims she was barred from felicitating Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya at a women’s empowerment event due to her sleeveless kurti. NEW DELHI: A Delhi University student has alleged that she was prevented from felicitating Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya at an event on women’s empowerment because she was wearing a sleeveless kurti….
King Charles III and Queen Camilla will not meet survivors linked to the Jeffrey Epstein case during their upcoming state visit to the United States, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.Palace sources indicated that while there have been calls, particularly from victims’ families and advocacy groups, for such an interaction, it has been ruled out due to…
Bobby Kotick, the former head of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly considering buying TikTok, as the app could be banned in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick has talked to ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, about buying the app, which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.This comes as US lawmakers…
KVS 2nd provisional list 2026: The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has released the second provisional admission list for Class 1 admissions for the 2026–27 academic session on April 16, 2026. The second provisional list determines the next set of selected candidates against seats that remained vacant after the first list, which was published earlier in…
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely identified as the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, could instead be explained by an extremely dense concentration of dark matter. The idea challenges the long-standing interpretation based on observations of fast-moving stars near the galactic core, which…
