Lucknow: To strengthen child safety, child welfare protection committees will be set up across 331 districts and 20,000 villages with support from NITI Aayog and Just Rights for Children. The initiative aims to ensure that children are in school, safe and protected through community-level awareness, monitoring and early intervention.Founder of Just Rights for Children, Bhuwan…
Jaipur: Former Rajasthan minister Mahesh Joshi failed to get relief from the Rajasthan High Court Friday after the court dismissed a habeas corpus petition challenging his arrest in the alleged Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam.A division bench of Justice Umashankar Vyas and Justice Ashok Kumar Jain rejected the petition filed by Joshi’s son, Rohit Joshi,…
NEW DELHI: With anaemia continuing to affect nearly one in two adolescent girls and women despite long-running supplementation programmes, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Gates Foundation have launched a Rs. 1-crore Grand Challenge to develop attractive, iron-rich food products that women would be willing to consume every day.The initiative seeks proposals…
AI-generated image used for representation The Russia-Ukraine war has entered uncharted territory. More than four years after Russian forces crossed into Ukraine in February 2022, the conflict has now lasted longer than World War I, the global conflict that raged from 1914 to 1918 and came to be known as the Great War.According to a…
The carrier is also reevaluating plans to fly to new domestic and international destinations, pruning some routes and postponing launches at some airports, such as the new Noida International Airport, the people familiar with the matter said. Air India’s cowed ambitions follow a series of challenges that have pushed it deep into the red. Air…
Manoj Bajpayee‘s film ‘Governor: The Silent Saviour’ has hit the theatres on June 12, 2026. The movie, directed by Chinmay Mandlekar, has arrived in cinemas during a crowded box office. The film opened to mix reviews from the audience. Amidst the stiff competition from several releases, let’s take a look at the opening-day performance of…
Soumya Dixit (Pic source: X) Dr Soumya Dixit, a young MBBS graduate from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh who was preparing for the NEET-PG examination, has died by suicide.According to information shared online, Dr Dixit left behind a note in which she spoke about her mental health struggles. In the note, she wrote, “I can no…
Michael Chandler (Image credit: Instagram) Michael Chandler is not new to the spotlight. Long before he arrived in the UFC and established himself as one of the lightweight division’s biggest attractions, the Missouri native had already built a reputation at Bellator, where he became a three-time champion and one of the faces of the promotion….
Kalyan: A six-day-old baby girl was found abandoned in a garbage dump in Kalyan East on Friday morning, triggering shock and concern among local residents. The infant was rescued just in time after a local woman spotted her lying inside a bag surrounded by stray dogs.The incident came to light in the Chiknipada area of…
Chennai: Congress high command is preparing for a change of guard in the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC), with Congress MP Manickam Tagore emerging as the frontrunner for the top post. The decision is likely to be announced after the wedding of TNCC president K Selvaperunthagai’s daughter on June 18.Senior party leaders said the move…
