Eyewitnesses recall moments when Sonam Wangchuk was taken away from Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Eyewitnesses at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday recalled the moments climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was taken away from the protest site, saying the operation unfolded within minutes and that all they could see were white bedsheets shielding the police action from…
Jaipur: Residential schools run by Rajasthan’s social justice and empowerment department recorded a 97.9% pass rate in the Class 10 board exams and near-perfect Class 12 results — 98.3% in Science, 99.8% in Arts and 100% in Commerce — according to a departmental report.The state has 42 operational residential schools with over 14,500 enrolled students….
Youngsters at the CJP protest in Hyderabad on Sunday. Hyderabad: A large presence of young people, most of them in their early 20s, stood out at the CJP protest at Dharna Chowk on Sunday. Many of them said they had come after learning about the movement through social media.For Krishna, a 22-year-old lawyer from Begumpet,…
Image: Redwings Horse Sanctuary When football clubs replace worn equipment, most fans assume it ends up in storage or is thrown away. Arsenal’s old player socks have taken a very different path. The Premier League club recently donated around 40 pairs of footless red socks to Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Britain’s largest equine rescue charity. What…
As the Haj pilgrims clad in ihram, men in two-piece, unstitched white fabric and women in loose-fitting, modest clothing, exit from Haj terminals in Jeddah or Medina, the waiting luxury cars transfer them to the five-star hotels facing the Haram Sharif.Located at almost a whispering distance from the sacred sanctuaries in the two cities, the…
Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao objected to the proposal of setting up Telangana Rythu Power Distribution Company Limited (TGRPDCL) and asked the Telangana Electricity Regulatory Commission (TGERC) to reject the license application.In his letter to TGERC on Wednesday, Harish Rao stated that electricity was one of the core reasons behind the Telangana movement, along…
Pune: A steep rise in fishing pressure, coupled with climate-related changes, could seriously affect the sardine count along the country’s southwest coast.Researchers from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) warned thousands of coastal households dependent on India’s sardine catch about this after studying over five decades…
CHENNAI: Ahead of the local body elections, the state govt has asked state election commissioner Jothi Nirmalasamy to resign, sources told TOI.The move comes days after the govt asked chairpersons and members of several other state bodies to step down, fuelling criticism that C Joseph Vijay’s govt is seeking to purge institution heads appointed by…
The BMC’s complaint redressal mechanism has become significantly faster, according to Praja Foundation’s latest assessment of Mumbai’s civic services Mumbai: Citizens’ complaints to the BMC have surged by nearly 60% over the past decade, with pollution-related grievances registering a major 531% increase, even as the civic body’s complaint redressal mechanism has become significantly faster, according…
NEW DELHI: The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) on Sunday sought urgent assistance for 24 Indian seafarers aboard a vessel reportedly attacked off the coast of Oman, amid heightened tensions in the region linked to the Israel-Iran conflict.In a post on X, the union said the vessel was located near the Strait of Hormuz…
