Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao advised students to upgrade their digital skills, highlighting their importance for academic growth and educational empowerment of underprivileged girl students. He personally distributed laptops to the students at his residence on Friday. The founders of Touch A Life Foundation, Vibhuti Jain and Reena Hindocha, along with the students…
Kolkata: The Chinese film festival returned to Nandan after a decade on Friday. The festival, inaugurated by Chinese consul general Xu Wei, will continue till Sunday.The last time a Chinese film festival was held in Kolkata was in 2016.The opening film, ‘Xuan Zang’, is a 2016 Sino-Indian co-production on a young monk’s journey to India…
Panaji: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a rainfall alert for Goa on Sunday, forecasting isolated light showers and thundershowers across the state.According to the IMD advisory, rain activity is likely to develop during the late afternoon to evening hours. No severe weather warnings have been issued, indicating that conditions are expected to remain…
Tuba Asim receives the award Varanasi: A teacher from a govt school in Kashi-Tuba Asim-has been honoured with the Vidya Stree award at IIT Madras. This honour has been given for new technology and innovation in teaching children of schools under the Basic Education Department. Tuba Asim has developed the concept of experiment through simulation,…
Ahmedabad: An 1886 report on Ahmedabad’s historic monuments offers a striking glimpse of the city’s built heritage 140 years ago, documenting encroachments, neglect, and early preservation efforts. One passage describes how the Ahmed Shah Mosque in Bhadra had been taken over by a squatter who began constructing shops on the premises. The structure, the report…
Chandigarh: Chairing a review meeting to assess the current status and disposal of public complaints submitted via the public grievances division (PGD) portal, special director general of police (traffic and road safety-cum-public grievances) A S Rai issued directions to all the nodal officers to ensure that all public complaints were uploaded and processed exclusively through…
PUNE: Flight operations at the city airport came to a grinding halt around 11pm on Friday, after its runway was closed for landings and take-offs following an incident involving an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft.At least 32 flights arriving from various cities were diverted or cancelled at the time of going to press. An equal…
Image used for representative purpose only LUCKNOW: A detailed analysis of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 voter data reveals that several urban constituencies represented by senior leaders and ministers have witnessed voter deletions that overshoot their winning margins of the 2022 assembly elections.A similar pattern is visible across multiple constituencies irrespective of the candidates’…
JAIPUR: District collector Sandesh Nayak Friday convened a meeting of the district road safety committee in which he outlined that a public awareness campaign regarding road safety will be conducted over a period of three months starting from April.During this campaign, tasks including the repair of city roads, rectification of sewage manholes, installation of signage,…
Nishikant Dubey (ANI image) NEW DELHI: After Rahul Gandhi concluded his speech in Lok Sabha on Friday ‘posing a puzzle’ for MPs to consider “what happened on April 16”, BJP’s Nishikant Dubey got up to counter the Congress neta saying it is April 17 that is significant.Gandhi had already left the Parliament by then despite…
