NEW DELHI: The women’s reservation bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha on Friday, as it failed to secure the required two-thirds majority after two days of intense debate over the bill and the proposed delimitation exercise.The Constitution Amendment Bill could not pass, with the ruling NDA falling short of the numbers needed to push…
HYDERABAD: A five-year-old boy was allegedly smothered and beaten to death by his mother’s live-in partner in a brutal assault at their rented house in Kamareddy town on Friday. Police arrested the accused and the boy’s mother. Shravan was allegedly killed around 4.30 pm at their house in Sriramnagar Colony while his mother Laxmi was…
Lucknow: Digital content and video lectures will now be part of regular teaching at National PG College as faculty members have been directed to record lectures in the classrooms or in the college recording facility and upload them on the institution’s YouTube channel for students access and revision. The decision was taken at the academic…
Pakistan gets $3bn from Saudi Arabia as ‘support’ to shore up forex reserves as UAE debt looms Saudi Arabia has provided new financial help to Pakistan with an extra $3 billion deposit. It has also extended an existing $5 billion loan. This support is important for Pakistan as it struggles to meet its growing debt…
Ahmedabad: A 32-year-old driver living in Sanand taluka has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Samrat Choudhary, a day before the latter was sworn in as Bihar’s chief minister.“Shekhar Yadav, a native of Banka district in Bihar, allegedly called Choudhary’s office in Munger last Tuesday and issued death threats over the phone,” said SP…
Ahmedabad: A city sessions court here on Wednesday denied regular bail to 33-year-old Monika Makwana, who was arrested last month following the death of her 2.5-month-old daughter from falling into a water tank.As the state govt and Monika’s husband, Deepak Makwana, opposed her bail plea, the court considered the reasons given by the mother for…
New Delhi: The forest and wildlife department will empanel only agencies that have tree transplanter machines capable of uprooting trees with intact root balls and also hire a certified arborist so that the survival rate of transplanted trees improves.The department has now issued an expression of interest (EoI) to empanel agencies equipped with the specialised…
MP Board Class 12th result 2026 released MP Board Class 12 results 2026: The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) has declared the Class 12 (Higher Secondary School Certificate) result 2026 today, April 15, 2026. The results were officially announced by the Chief Minister in Bhopal.Students who appeared for the examination can now check…
Natasha Cochrane De La Rosa was born in Islington, grew up in London, pays taxes and has voted in British elections her entire adult life. None of that was enough to get her back into the country where she was born.The 26-year-old has been stranded abroad since 6 April after being denied boarding on her…
What began as a bizarre symbol of excess in a drug lord’s private zoo has turned into one of South America’s most unusual environmental crises. Deep in Colombia’s river systems, hundreds of hippos, descendants of animals once imported illegally by Pablo Escobar, now roam freely, far from their native Africa. Their numbers have surged over…
