Chennai: DMK president M K Stalin on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to abandon plans for a NEET re-examination and allow states to fill medical seats based on Class XII marks through an emergency ordinance.In a letter to the Prime Minister, Stalin said the cancellation of NEET 2026 following the question paper leak left…
The LB Nagar court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted his 16-year-old niece to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 22,000. Hyderabad: The LB Nagar court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted his 16-year-old niece to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 22,000.The judge also…
Voting for the municipal polls was held on May 10 and counting took place on May 13 Gurgaon: It began as an election-season “promise” in Rewari. But has now acquired paperwork.Days after promising no bachelor would remain single if the BJP candidate won the local body poll, party MLA Bimla Chaudhary returned to the town…
Kolkata: From June 1, CM Suvendu Adhikari is likely to directly hear public grievances and ensure their immediate redressal through a “Janatar Darbar”, following a model practised in several BJP-governed states such as UP, MP and Odisha.The proposed public outreach initiative, aimed at addressing grievances face to face, is expected to be held once or…
Noida: On a May afternoon in Noida, the air does not just feel hot — it feels manufactured as glass towers lining the expressway catch the sun, throw it back doubled, and trap what remains inside their climate-controlled interiors, pushing the heat out onto the street below.Delhi-NCR has always had brutal summers, but something has…
Panaji: Congress candidate for the Ponda bypoll, Ketan Bhatikar, died on Friday after being bitten by a venomous snake in Karnataka. The postmortem report has confirmed that the cause of death was snakebite. Collem police have registered the case as an unnatural death.After Bhatikar was declared dead, his supporters gathered outside his residence in Ponda…
When relatives reached the bridge, they found Panchal’s motorcycle lying damaged on the bridge while he had fallen onto the road below with head and body injuries Ahmedabad: A 52-year-old senior manager fell to his death when he was thrown off Ranip’s Balolnagar bridge after his motorcycle hit a divider late on Wednesday. This marks…
Shimona.kanwar@timesofindia.comChandigarh: PGI has launched an austerity campaign to slash its carbon footprint and conserve resources during the ongoing economic crisis. As part of the effort, the institute will trade fuel-guzzling cars for bicycles and waiting rooms for digital screens.The campus-wide initiative encourages all employees — including senior doctors living within residential sectors — to cycle…
Pune: Amplified by concrete buildings, asphalt roads, dense urban infrastructure and vanishing tree cover, birds are struggling to survive in the punishing summer.Pigeons, house sparrows, crows, mynas, bulbuls and sunbirds are increasingly being seen with beaks open in thirst, drooping wings and heaving bodies as they search for shade. Many grow disoriented, collapse mid-flight or…
Dibrugarh: Forest authorities put an end to days of terror among the residents and workers of two tea estates in upper Assam, capturing two leopards in seperate localities on Friday.In the first instance, a leopard that had been creating fear among residents and workers of the Megha Tea Estate in the Moran-Nahoroni area of Dibrugarh…
