More than 33,000 students in govt primary schools are waiting for a Direct Benefit Transfer meant to cover uniforms, shoes, sweaters, school bags and stationery Noida: Sunita Devi’s son has outgrown his uniform. It has thinned at the seams, and in the heat and humidity, it soaks through with sweat within minutes of the walk…
Guwahati: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday urged IIM-Guwahati students to measure leadership by integrity, humanity, compassion and commitment to public good.Pradhan was addressing IIM-Guwahati’s first MBA batch, which marked a milestone for higher education in Assam.His address came amid the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement’s demand for his resignation over alleged examination irregularities.Pradhan…
Lucknow: Kushinagar police have on Tuesday registered an FIR against 11 named accused and around 30 unidentified persons for allegedly running an organised racket involving forgery and manipulation of govt land records to illegally transfer gram sabha land into private names.The case has been registered at Vishunpura police station on the complaint of Tamkuhiraj tehsildar…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday reportedly left the party’s Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata after a verbal exchange with party supremo Mamata Banerjee.According to a report by news agency PTI, Mamata was upset with Kalyan over exceeding his allotted speaking time at the rally, where he spoke for around 23 minutes.Party…
Leaky dams, also known as logjams, allow water to flow through slowly instead of blocking it. (Representational AI image) East Anglia, a rural region in eastern England, is facing a hosepipe ban after becoming the driest part of the UK. But in one village in Norfolk, people are also preparing for the opposite problem of…
File photo: US President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs on April 2, 2025, in Washington (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondant from Washington: MAGA boss Donald Trump is preparing to unleash yet another wave of tariffs on dozens of countries, including India, within days, doubling down on his favorite economic weapon…
Alia Bhatt’s Raazi is widely regarded as one of the standout performances of her career, but the film has continued to face criticism from Harinder Singh Sikka, author of Calling Sehmat, the book that inspired the 2018 spy drama. In a recent interview, Sikka levelled fresh allegations against filmmaker Gulzar, director Meghna Gulzar and an…
From a farmer’s family to Vikram-1: How Prithvi Sanghani (inset) is shaping India’s private space revolution. (Photo: LinkedIn) As millions watched Vikram-1 rise into the sky, celebrating a landmark moment in India’s private space journey, very few knew about the engineers working quietly behind the scenes to make that launch possible.One of them was Prithvi…
Pranesh hands Gukesh another defeat (X-Chess Base India) GM M Pranesh continued his impressive run at the Chennai Grand Masters by defeating reigning world champion D Gukesh for the second consecutive time, while GM Nihal Sarin outclassed Arjun Erigaisi in a crucial Round 6 encounter on Tuesday. The results reshaped the leaderboard, with French Grandmaster…
The video showed Dahiya at the fast-food outlet while police were using force against protesters attempting to march towards Parliament. NEW DELHI: “Why did I eat a burger? This is a big issue today.” Vijeta Dahiya’s question came after a video of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson eating a burger at a fast-food outlet…
