Failure must be embraced for India to become an innovation leader, said senior chemical engineer, Sharma. PUNE: India must shed its fear of failure if it hopes to emerge as a global innovation powerhouse, senior chemical engineer Man Mohan Sharma said, arguing that scientific breakthroughs are impossible without unsuccessful experiments and the courage to pursue…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: After a long gap, the opposition alliance INDIA will meet on June 6 to take stock of the political situation in the country.Sources said “opposition politics – the way forward” will be the theme of the meeting. There has been a growing feeling among opposition parties that the…
Ludhiana: With rising consumption of junk food and growing concerns over anaemia and lifestyle-related illnesses, the district health department will use National Nutrition Week, beginning Sept 1, to push awareness about healthy eating and balanced diets across Ludhiana.A week-long campaign will be organised at govt health institutions, where residents will be counselled on nutrition, maternal…
The day stays balanced, neither too heavy nor too exciting. Income and expenditure more or less match, and that itself brings a bit of peace. Jupiter keeps things from tipping too far either way, though the Moon may cause a few changes in plan. One of them could be a cancelled long journey.Don’t get discouraged…
New Delhi: Monday’s mayhem during the ‘Sandad Chalo’ march witnessed “strange inaction” from the police during the “golden hour”, according to several officers.Although the agitation had been announced well in advance, and both Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police’s intelligence wing had provided precise, actionable inputs regarding a massive build-up of demonstrators, the command centre remained…
NEW DELHI: What took days is now being done in a jiffy. NHAI’s home-grown AI-powered tool “Margsarthi” is enabling its more than 1,000 officers to detect discrepancies in contract documents, detailed project reports (DPRs) and minutes of meetings running into hundreds of pages within minutes, helping better decision-making.To add, the “gated garden” tool — which…
Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil stated Delhi Police collected protesters’ fingerprints from stones MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil on Thursday claimed that the Delhi Police had collected fingerprints from even the smallest stones allegedly used during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in the national capital and would link them with Aadhaar records to identify those…
Maharashtra’s mounting public debt and alleged delays in clearing payments to small contractors has triggered a fresh political row Mumbai: Maharashtra’s mounting public debt and alleged delays in clearing payments to small contractors triggered a fresh political row on Wednesday, with NCP (SP) accusing the BJP-led state government of pushing nearly three lakh contractors and…
Lucknow: The Jayant Chaudhary-led Rashtriya Lok Dal, an ally of the BJP, on Tuesday dissolved its UP state executive, in a move that potentially necessitated restructuring of the party’s organisational command ahead of the high-stakes UP Assembly elections due early next year.Sources said that the decision was taken at the party’s National Executive Committee, headed…
Yadav said the government had failed to learn from previous incidents despite repeated controversies surrounding competitive examinations. NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that recurring examination paper leaks were the result of the Centre’s failure to fix the system and would…
