Pune: The fallout over the axing of five players from the tennis team for the Asian Games by the sports ministry took a dramatic turn on Monday with an RTI being filed by two lawyers challenging the Centre’s selection guidelines for the quadrennial showpiece next month in Japan.“In a major legal intervention for transparency and…
Silchar: Police seized 10,000 suspected Yaba tablets worth Rs 3 crore and arrested a man in Lakhipur on Monday.Acting on information, Lakhipur police intercepted a car at Talengram and recovered the suspected contraband during a search.The accused was identified as Fakrul Hussain Choudhury (32) of Chengjur Grant in Cachar’s Binnakandi area. Police said the tablets…
Jaipur: The state-level Shikshak Samman Awards 2026, scheduled to be held at Birla Auditorium on Sept 5, have been postponed following imposition of Model Code of Conduct for the upcoming urban local body (ULB) elections in the state. The awards are organised every year around Teachers’ Day to recognise teachers for their contribution to school…
India is bracing for below-average rainfall this September, signaling an early end to the monsoon season with overall inadequate precipitation. NEW DELHI: Monthly rainfall over the country as a whole is most likely to be ‘below normal’ in Sept, the last month of the monsoon season, said IMD on Monday — an indication that the…
Before Laurene Powell Jobs became known for philanthropy, education, climate initiatives and media ownership, her professional life began on Wall Street. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, she joined Goldman Sachs, where she spent three years working in fixed-income trading strategy under Jon Corzine. It was a relatively brief chapter,…
Ravi Valecha, better known as Master Ravi was known for playing junior Amitabh Bachchan in many movies in the 80s. While he started out with movies, he decided to take a different path as he grew up and is a striking example of someone whose life has taken several unexpected turns — and who managed…
Pakistan head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed and captain Babar Azam (AFP Photo) Pakistan have responded to their crushing 194-run defeat to England at Lord’s with a sweeping mid-tour overhaul, releasing seven players and making changes to the red-ball coaching staff ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston.The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the changes on Monday after…
Harshith Nelabhotla. Image Credit: Youth Scientists Lab Harshith Nelabhotla, an Ohio student, has earned recognition for developing a ‘Real-Time ASL Word Recognition System,’ a project that brings artificial intelligence to American Sign Language (ASL). His work has been named the ‘2026 Ohio State Merit Winner’ in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, placing his idea among…
A 16-year-old girl was gang-raped on a moving sleeper bus in Delhi. Advocate Seema Kushwaha highlighted similarities to the Nirbhaya case NEW DELHI: After the alleged gangrape of a 16-year-old girl inside a moving sleeper bus came to light, advocate Seema Kushwaha drew parallels with the 2012 Nirbhaya case and questioned how the bus was…
A benzene leak occurred from a tanker near Mysore Colony on Mahul Road (AI-genertaed image used for representational purposes) MUMBAI: A benzene leak from a tanker carrying around 28 tonnes of the chemical was reported near Mysore Colony on Mahul Road in Chembur (East) on Monday evening.The incident soon prompted authorities to cordon off a…
