BENGALURU: A Rs 450-crore road project on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road has run into opposition from the companies that employ lakhs of people along the busy corridor, with the industry body asking authorities to put the work on hold until the Namma Metro Blue Line becomes operational.The Outer Ring Road Companies’ Association (ORRCA) has objected…
The Madras High Court clarified a Union Home Ministry notification. CHENNAI: The Madras high court has clarified that the Union home ministry’s notification requiring ‘Vande Mataram‘ to be sung first at government functions does not prohibit the Tamil Thai Vazhthu from being sung before it.The court was hearing a PIL filed by Ananya Radhakrishnan, who…
Statewide Nipun assessments for young students began Tuesday but faced significant disruptions. GURGAON: Statewide Nipun assessments for students from classes I-IV began Tuesday, but the flagship foundational learning exercise failed to take off in more than half of the city’s govt primary schools because a number of teachers are deployed on Special Intensive Revision (SIR)…
The Centre told the Supreme Court that the NEET examination security system is “foolproof” and difficult to breach. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the system in place for conducting the NEET examination is “foolproof” and difficult to breach, citing multiple safeguards for the preparation, transportation and handling of question…
The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on…
Indian equities have declined over the past two weeks despite a brighter earnings outlook. India’s stock market, among the worst performing this year, has now replaced Indonesia to become the ‘least-favoured’ stock market in India, as per a fund managers’ survey by Bank of America Corp. This signals growing investor caution for the Indian stock…
Personal experiences can sometimes change the way a person looks at life. Actor Anupama Parameswaran has now opened up about one such difficult phase in her life. In a detailed conversation, the actress spoke about being in a controlling relationship for nearly two years. She explained how the experience affected her confidence, career choices and…
IIT Delhi engineer Hemant Kumar Bhukar leaves Intel after 3 years, secures AIR 7 to become an ISRO scientist. (AI Image) “There are no shortcuts to success.” This is the lesson that emerges from the remarkable journey of Hemant Kumar Bhukar, an engineer from Rajasthan who walked away from a comfortable corporate career to pursue…
Prasidh Krishna, second right, with Yashasvi Jaiswal, 64, celebrates after taking a wicket of Sri Lanka’s Niroshan Dickwella. (left) and Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dickwealla A light exchange between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Niroshan Dickwella was followed by the Sri Lankan batter’s dismissal as India moved closer to victory in the opening Test in Galle on Wednesday.With Sri…
Lord Shiva Statue Unveiled (CERN official) For those who don’t know, CERN is Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). It is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland (near Franco-Swiss border). It is the lab where scientists accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But beyond this…
