Amandeep Kour, a PhD scholar in the department of microbiology at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), won two prestigious awards at the recently concluded 8th Global Agriculture Conference Ludhiana: Amandeep Kour, a PhD scholar in the department of microbiology at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), won two prestigious awards at the recently concluded 8th Global Agriculture Conference…
Students said they remained firm on their demand for an open forum to ensure individual representatives were not targetted Pune: As the student protest at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune entered its third day on Saturday, the institute issued a statement saying that director Sunil Bhagwat had invited three to…
MUMBAI: India’s cyber-fraud landscape is undergoing a decisive shift, with fraudsters moving away from remote takeover of devices to real-time social engineering, where victims themselves execute transactions under live phone instruction, even as a sprawling network of mule accounts enables the laundering of proceeds.According to the July 2026 report by Biocatch (a company that assists…
SRINAGAR: A large crowd gathered outside the district jail in Leh on Saturday to welcome the release of former Congress councillor Smanla Dorje Nurboo (36) and former Congress J&K MLA Deldan Namgail (47) after the Jammu and Kashmir high court granted them bail.Police had arrested Namgail on Sept 26, 2025, and Nurboo a day later,…
NEW DELHI: Nearly five months before the devastating fire at a bed-and-breakfast facility in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar that claimed at least 21 lives on Wednesday, the Delhi high court had directed civic and government authorities to urgently address concerns over inadequate fire safety measures in hotels, restaurants and other hospitality establishments across the city,…
Bengaluru: With CM D K Shivakumar already readying the Congress machinery for the 2028 assembly polls, the BJP-JD(S) alliance is yet to answer a basic question: who will take him on? Increasingly, the answer appears to be H D Kumaraswamy, though the BJP has not committed to projecting him as the NDA’s CM candidate.Shivakumar has…
Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina (Image: REUTERS) Elena Rybakina has added another milestone to an outstanding 2026 season, securing the year-end world No. 1 ranking for the first time in her career after defeating compatriot Yulia Putintseva in the second round of the Pan Pacific Open on Thursday.The Kazakh eased past Putintseva 6-2, 6-3 at the WTA…
Meta apologises before Parliament panel over removal of PM Modi’s Facebook video NEW DELHI: Meta on Monday apologised before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology over the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Facebook video, saying it was taken down due to an error. However, several committee members said the issue went beyond an…
Around 925 players from 29 states and union territories will participate in the 51st Sub-Junior and Junior National Yogasana Championship slated to be held in Jaipur from Oct 3 to 6 Jaipur: The 51st Sub-Junior and Junior National Yogasana Championships, under the aegis of the Yoga Federation of India, will be held from Oct 3…
The UT administration maintains that outsourced staff are ineligible for vacation pay because their services are not required when schools are closed, despite paying full salary for June following the summer break. Chandigarh: Around 90 outsourced counsellors working in Chandigarh govt schools are facing salary deductions ahead of the upcoming autumn break, even as they…
