(Left to right) Leo, Bella and Lily Mumbai: The Humboldt penguin colony at Mumbai’s Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Garden and Zoo has grown from 21 to 25, with the civic body revealing that four chicks born over the past year have now been declared healthy and added to the public count.Zoo officials said the births…
Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj leaders switch to BJP ahead of Bankipur bypoll NEW DELHI: In a setback to Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor ahead of the Bankipur Assembly bypoll, several party leaders, including candidates who contested the 2025 Bihar assembly elections on the party’s ticket, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.The leaders who…
Viral Re-NEET image raises questions, NTA rejects leak claim A photograph of what appears to be a sealed National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) question booklet is once again circulating on social media. This time, it is the details printed on the booklet itself.A user on X pointed to what looked like a 33-page booklet,…
File photo: Ships in Hormuz NEW DELHI: For tracking ships with Indian seafarers in conflict-hit West Asia, shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal Tuesday directed maritime regulator DG Shipping to have a comprehensive vessel-by-vessel operational dashboard to account for every such ship, irrespective of their flags.The online dashboard — for tracking their movement in Persian Gulf, Strait…
The elderly patient was suffering from advanced avascular necrosis (AVN) in both hips, a condition that led to joint collapse, chronic pain and loss of movement Gurgaon: An 81-year-old retired REC commissioner from west Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh, who was in a wheelchair for four years, has regained mobility after undergoing a rare simultaneous bilateral hip…
Kolkata: TMC Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from the post of the party’s Barasat organisational district president on Sunday. In a letter addressed to state party president Subrata Bakshi, she stated that she was stepping down taking moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in Barasat. While doing so, she attacked political consultancy agency I-PAC…
NEW DELHI: Ex-BJP Tamil Nadu state president K Annamalai questioned the high-level security for NEET-UG re-exam scheduled for June 21. He said that the involvement of CRPF, CISF along with multi-level oversight with direct monitoring from the Prime Minister’s office seemed as if the arrangements were to “buy high-level, classified, military-grade software.“He said that increased…
Navi Mumbai: The front windscreen of a car owned and driven by a Khopoli resident was damaged after two boulders fell on it on Monday evening. The incident was reported on the connecting link stretch of the Pune-bound carriageway of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. While no one was injured in the incident, it has raised concerns…
NEW DELHI: Govt is reviewing tariff concessions on Scotch and some other products proposed in the trade agreement with the UK if its concerns over steel quotas and duties are not addressed before the treaty is ratified.“We have to rebalance the FTA… We haven’t made up our mind, but we can consider action on certain…
Boris Johnson’s cake quote redefined Brexit. No one needs an introduction to the traditional idiom that ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it too’. There are many variations of the age-old idiom but all of them mean that you need to make some sacrifice to get something in exchange. You cannot simultaneously possess two…
