Gorakhpur: In a major milestone, Gorakhpur has secured a place in the Guinness World Records for an Artificial Intelligence awareness campaign that registered 7,64,187 participants online within a week.The ‘AI for All Awareness Programme’, conceptualised under the guidance of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, surpassed its initial target of five lakh registrations well before the April…
Rain in Jaipur Thursday brought some respite from scorching heat Jaipur: Amid an intense heatwave, the state education department, Wednesday, directed all govt and private schools to suspend outdoor activities and allow students to wear light cotton clothes instead of uniforms, while ruling out early summer vacations.The Directorate of Secondary Education has asked schools to…
Ahmedabad: The Anupam Bridge in the eastern part of the city will stay temporarily shut from midnight to 6am on Friday and again on June 10, 13 and 14 for work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project.National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited said the closure will be a temporary night-time restriction as authorities conduct steel…
Image Credit: TOI/ Bengaluru BENGALURU: Bookworm, the iconic bookshop on Church Street, saw nearly 5,000 books destroyed after rainwater gushed into the shop within minutes.Proprietor Krishna Gowda said, “The hailstones clogged the drainage outlets, and almost instantly, water started pouring in from all sides,” he said. By 5.30pm, shelves that once held stories, ideas and…
Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has come out strongly in support of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after the latter faced online criticism over her recent appearances at the Cannes Film Festival.Taking to Instagram Stories on Sunday, Kangana slammed trolls targeting Aishwarya’s looks and weight, while stressing that fashion is a personal form of expression and women do not…
New Delhi: Police have found a curved khukri-like knife that Dr Manish Gupta allegedly used to slit the throat of his domestic help, Meena, at his south Delhi residence on June 19.The weapon was part of a collection of similar knives that the dermatologist had accumulated at his Mount Kailash home over the years from…
NEW DELHI: Government spending on healthcare in India has nearly tripled over the last decade, while the amount families spend directly from their own pockets on treatment has sharply declined, according to the latest National Health Accounts (NHA) estimates released by the Union health ministry.The report showed that Government Health Expenditure (GHE) increased from ₹1.30…
Mumbai: Mumbai’s commuters and devotees will soon have a convenient new travel option as BEST will launch an AC bus route A-814, the Siddhivinayak circular service, from Saturday. The new route will connect Dadar railway station with the Siddhivinayak temple, offering a comfortable and regular service throughout the week. The first bus will leave at…
(From left) Vishal TK, Ancy Sojan and Animesh Kujur Athletes like Ancy Sojan, Vishal TK and Animesh Kujur, who narrowly missed the Commonwealth Games qualifying mark set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) during the National Senior Athletics Federation Competition in Ranchi (May 22–25), will get another chance to make the cut at the…
Elizabeth Fry (Image: Wikipedia) A prison cell is a strange place to find a social reformer.Yet that is exactly where Elizabeth Fry spent much of her time during the early nineteenth century. While many of her contemporaries viewed prisons as places where offenders simply received the consequences of their actions, Fry saw something else. She…
