Pune:The state education department has barred private schools from forcing parents to buy uniforms, books, or other learning material from specific vendors or the school itself in a move that directly benefits parents and students.Parents are now free to purchase these items from any shop of their choice, ending a long-standing practice that often led…
What began as a temporary pandemic adjustment in 2020 has now evolved into a lasting workplace expectation. Six years after COVID-19 forced offices to shut, the work-from-home debate has resurfaced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to adopt fuel-saving measures and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a mandatory two-day work-from-home policy each week…
Jaipur: A division bench of the Rajasthan High Court has granted ‘invalid pension’ to a disabled ex-serviceman who was denied the benefit for over three decades, observing that the Army failed to properly assess his disability before discharging him from service.A division bench comprising justices Sudesh Bansal and Ravi Chirania partly allowed the petition filed…
A 26-year-old woman died after allegedly falling from her in-laws’ multistoreyed building in northeast Delhi. NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old pregnant woman died after allegedly falling from her in-laws’ house in a multistoreyed building in northeast Delhi’s New Mustafabad on Monday, with police registering a case of dowry death.Police received information about the admission of a…
Sabeer Bhatia (Left) Sridhar Vembu (Right) An online fight between two billionaires over how India should view its past has stirred a row on social media, with Indian-origin tech entrepreneurs Sabeer Bhatia and Sridhar Vembu clashing after Vembu compared Bhatia’s remarks to asking Jews to “appreciate” the Holocaust.The row began after Bhatia, the Indian-American co-founder…
PARIS: Climate change could push seabirds into smaller habitats and force them to fly farther to survive, a new study said Tuesday.While warmer oceans have historically caused fish and other marine species to shrink in size, seabirds such as albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels have seen their geographic range contract, the study said.The researchers used statistical…
CM Shivakumar holds his first Cabinet meeting in Vidhana Soudha Thursday. BENGALURU: “There will be no rollback of the welfare schemes,” said chief minister D K Shivakumar while ordering a statewide review of beneficiaries under the Congress govt’s flagship guarantee programmes during his first meeting with senior officials after assuming office Thursday. The review aims…
Panaji: The conflict in the West Asia is reshaping how Indians plan their summer holidays, with Goa’s four-star and five-star hotels emerging as one of the clearest beneficiaries. With Gulf airspace disrupted, European connections thrown into uncertainty and international travel costs rising, Indian families are cancelling or shelving foreign trips and turning instead to domestic…
Representational picture: GERC draft rules have recognized BESS as grid assets Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has released draft regulations for grid-interactive Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), formally recognizing battery storage as generation-linked, transmission-linked, distribution-linked and standalone grid assets.The draft framework allows standalone BESS developers to independently participate in energy markets, ancillary services…
Residents alleged that in some parts of the sector, there has been no supply at all for the past three days Gurgaon: More than 50 households in Sector 28 have complained of erratic water supply over the past month, with some lanes not receiving any supply for the past three days amid rising temperatures in…
