The US department of education has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in Massachusetts, over its admission of transgender women.The probe was announced on Monday by the department’s office for civil rights. It will examine whether the college has violated Title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of…
A five-day meeting of BRICS member countries began in Indore on Tuesday, with discussions centred on food security, climate-resilient agriculture, farmer welfare and greater cooperation among member nations in the agriculture sector.Officials from BRICS countries participated in the opening round of discussions under India’s BRICS chairmanship, PTI reported.A senior official from the Department of Agriculture…
Times News NetworkChandigarh: With no sign of the heat wave relenting, the Tricity continued to swelter in the heat. At 41 degrees Celsius, maximum temperature was five degrees above normal, the same as Friday. At 23.2 degrees Celsius, minimum temperature was also two degrees above normal.Weather across Haryana and Punjab remained dry, exacerbating the heatwave….
Bollywood couple Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty are back in the spotlight, this time for a heartwarming and candid conversation about faith, spirituality, and personal transformation. In a recent interaction, Raj Kundra revealed how he went from being a “borderline atheist” to embracing Sikhism and how his wife, Shilpa Shetty, couldn’t be more pleased about…
Hyderabad: A policy designed to compensate landowners and accelerate urban development has stirred fresh turbulence in Telangana’s real estate market. Following the state govt’s decision last month to make the utilisation of transferable development rights (TDR) mandatory for certain high-rise buildings—and to permit their use for setback relaxations—TDR prices have risen sharply, particularly across Greater…
Hyderabad: Cyient Semiconductors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyient Ltd, on Monday said it has firmed up a strategic financing transaction with funds managed by EAAA India Alternatives Ltd (Edelweiss) and affiliated co-investors that values the Hyderabad-headquartered chip company at about $500 million post-money.The transaction includes an equity investment of around $10 million (about ₹96…
Families pay Rs 10 lakh to Rs 12 lakh to block seats in engineering colleges Ahmedabad: Engineering students aiming for top private colleges and their parents will vouch that the real test begins after cracking the entrance exam. With counselling rounds picking up pace nationwide, families are thrust into a punishingly expensive scramble, forced to…
Clayton teen says she was denied her diploma as she spoke about ICE and Palestine in her welcome speech. Leen Hijaz, a Palestinian-origin Muslim student of Clayton High School, Missouri, said her principal was not giving her a diploma as she made a controversial graduation speech, which her principal interrupted as well. During the graduation…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Kolkata: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked Trinamool workers to be alert against “EVM capture” and said complaints of power-cuts were pouring in from EVM strongrooms after the first phase of the assembly polls in the state.“Look at EC! It is your job to ensure EVMs are not…
Surat: A 62-year-old man with a penchant for using acid in violent crimes was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a court here, for the 2019 murder of a 23-year-old man. The court cited his history of similar brutal offences to rule that this case was indeed the “rarest of the rare”.The Surat district and…
