A Google Maps navigation error allegedly led four UP Police recruitment aspirants 59 km away from their examination centre, causing them to miss the exam. The incident has sparked concerns about reliance on digital maps and prompted calls for QR-coded admit cards. For most of the aspirants in India, a government exam is not merely…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India pacer S Sreesanth has urged teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to remain focused on cricket and avoid getting distracted by professional managers following his rapid rise to fame. The 15-year-old prodigy recently earned a place in India’s squads for the tours of Ireland and England, becoming the…
Love has inspired poetry, fuelled wars, launched lifelong partnerships and broken countless hearts. It can feel overwhelming, irrational and impossible to explain. Yet some of the most important clues about why humans fall in love did not emerge from studies of couples, philosophers or poets. Instead, they came from a small brown rodent scurrying through…
Notorious gangster Venkatesh Garg has been extradited from Georgia to India following a coordinated operation involving multiple agencies. NEW DELHI: Notorious gangster Venkatesh Garg landed in India on Thursday following his successful extradition from Georgia. The major breakthrough was achieved through a coordinated operation involving the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Ministry of External…
File photo; image enhanced with AI CHENNAI: The 16-km Velachery–Tambaram High Road is set to be renamed after Major Mukund Varadharajan, the Indian Army officer who was killed in action and posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the country’s highest peacetime gallantry honour.The Tambaram Corporation Council on Thursday approved a resolution to name the arterial road…
Patiala: A 29-year-old Punjab-origin constable with the Ontario provincial police, Tarun Bali, was killed Tuesday afternoon in Canada after an 18-year-old suspect on the run drove a vehicle into him.The incident took place in the town of Hearst, about 520 km east of Thunder Bay, when the police had zeroed in on the teenager, who…
Lucknow: More than 30 lakh people have been screened for tuberculosis (TB) in Uttar Pradesh during the first 10 weeks of the Centre’s 100-day TB-Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, KGMU officials said on Wednesday.Of these, as many as 1.43 lakh patients, including more than 41,000 who showed no symptoms of the disease, were detected.The intensive screening campaign…
BJP leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. (IANS photo) NEW DELHI: BJP leader and former MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Wednesday claimed he was aware of alleged misuse and theft of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, but said he was not in a position to disclose details at present.Speaking to reporters at his…
Bill Nye (Image: Wikipedia) A plastic bottle lies beside a walking trail. A discarded food wrapper blows across a park. Someone notices it, shakes their head, and walks on. A second person stops, bends down, and throws it in a nearby bin.The difference between those two reactions takes only a few seconds. Yet it says…
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday rejected allegations of surplus capacity in the textiles and steel sectors, saying that per capita consumption of these products in the country remains among the lowest in the world.The remarks assume significance as USTR launched a probe regarding the acts, policies, and practices of 16 economies, including India, under Section…
