Research finds that while cellphone restrictions substantially reduce students’ phone use, they do not appear to produce broad improvements in test scores. Image: AI generated Across the world, the school smartphone is no longer being treated as a matter of teacher preference or student etiquette; it is being written into law, guidance and national school…
NEW DELHI: Chennai Super Kings are likely to rope in Karnataka cricketer Macneil Hadley Noronha as an injury replacement for Ramakrishna Ghosh for the remainder of IPL 2026.CSK suffered their third major injury setback of the season after all-rounder Ghosh was ruled out of the tournament following the game against Mumbai Indians on May 2…
New Delhi: Despite being monitored by Delhi High Court and occasionally even by Supreme Court, work on a survey to weed out encroachers and preserve the historic Tughlaqabad Fort appears to be going around in circles.HC was surprised to learn on Tuesday that even as the apex court in April stopped a move to outsource…
Arrested in Sept 2023, Goyal was granted bail in 2024 Mumbai: Even as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) expressed fears that he may tamper with the properties or evidence abroad, a special PMLA court on Tuesday permitted Jet Airways founder and accused in the Rs 538 crore money laundering case, Naresh Goyal, to travel to London…
Bengaluru: The private schools association has opposed the Prime Minister’s suggestion to take schooling online like during the pandemic to tide over the current concerns inflicted by the Iran war.“For over 500 days, schools were shut during the Covid-19 pandemic. We are yet to recover from the impact it had on our children and their…
Kolkata: Immediately after taking charge of the sports and youth welfare dept on Tuesday, minister Nishith Pramanik ordered a fresh probe into the Messi fiasco at Salt Lake Stadium on Dec 13 that triggered chaos, vandalism and allegations of large-scale administrative failure under the previous Trinamool govt.The announcement came within hours of Pramanik taking charge…
An industrial tribunal in Rajkot granted Rs 2.5 lakh in compensation to a former bank peon, who had worked for 358 days continuously, 22 years after his services were abruptly terminated Rajkot: An industrial tribunal here held the 1994 termination of a daily-wage bank peon illegal and ordered Rs 2.5 lakh compensation, ending a legal…
NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday launched two new services including AI-enabled monsoon advance forecasting system that will provide progress of the seasonal rainfall and “localised weather information” up to four weeks in advance to support farmers across 16 states and more than 3,000 sub-districts.The second product, on the other hand, relates…
It all started with Labour’s crushing setback in local elections across England, Scotland and Wales last week. The results sent shockwaves through the party and sparked an open rebellion against Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with more than 80 Labour MPs either publicly or privately demanding that he resign or announce a timetable for his departure.The…
BENGALURU: The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) Tuesday said it has deepened its partnership with American laboratory technology giant Agilent Technologies, giving a far wider range of Indian researchers access to some of the most sophisticated drug-testing equipment in the world, without having to buy it themselves.Think of it as a library, but…
