Hyderabad: Telangana has improved its performance in school education across several important parameters, including learning outcomes, infrastructure, governance and equity, according to the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2.0 for 2025-26 released by the Union Ministry of Education on Tuesday.The state scored 599.7 out of 1,000, up from 552.2 in 2024-25, and was placed in the…
The new rules explicitly target legal ambiguities used in the past by liquor traders. MUMBAI: In a major win for urban residents across Maharashtra, the state government has officially handed cooperative housing societies the power to veto liquor shops from moving into their premises. Under a fresh notification issued by the Home Department, liquor vendors…
Pune: Wanowrie police arrested nine men for allegedly attempting to steal underground copper cables worth Rs40 lakh belonging to a telecom company from the Hadapsar Industrial Area in the early hours of Saturday. Police said the gang used a crane, truck and motorcycle to pull cables from an underground duct along a road around 3am….
Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotations remain popular because they offer encouragement. Others survive because they reveal something uncomfortable about human nature. This remark, commonly attributed to Nikola Tesla, belongs to the second group.The sentence is short, but it leaves a strong impression. Tesla takes an emotion that most people have experienced at some point…
Guwahati: Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), an ally in the Congress-led opposition in the state for the assembly elections, said the party does not oppose the delimitation of constituencies but do not support BJP’s conspiracy to strengthen Hindi-speaking states in the parliament.The party said the voice of the indigenous people of states like Assam will be…
A youth broke the vehicle’s window with his foot to pull the driver out, injuring his leg in the process Gurgaon: A school bus and a Fortuner got submerged in the Old Faridabad railway underpass in separate incidents on Friday, after continuous rain left the stretch several feet underwater. Police and locals rescued the bus…
General:Slow down, especially outside. The Moon throws distractions on the road, and Mars can make you overconfident, so be cautious while driving, crossing streets, or even rushing on office stairs. Some unnecessary tension is likely. You might receive a message that irritates you, or a family member may push your buttons. Don’t take the bait….
Varanasi: A 30-year-old ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) worker died after a quack allegedly performed a C-section on her at a hospital that had already been sealed by authorities at Devatan Crossing under Kone police station limits in Sonbhadra on Saturday. After the botched surgery, the accused and his associates allegedly fled without even stitching…
Panaji: Deepak Surlakar, father of Mandar Surlakar, has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court’s order granting premature release to life convicts Rohan Dhungat, Shankar Tiwari and Ryan Pinto in his son’s 2006 kidnapping and murder case.Surlakar’s petition, along with the state’s plea challenging the convicts’ premature release, came up before the SC…
Pune: A 21-year-old man was arrested and his 17-year-old accomplice detained by Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Wednesday for extorting Rs13 lakh from a student by blackmailing and threatening to kill him.It took place between July and Nov 2024. The student, who is now 19, approached the crime branch after the minor recently threatened him…
