Ludhiana: The statewide strike and mass casual leave call given by govt employees on Wednesday impacted functioning of govt schools across Ludhiana, with many reporting severe staff shortages and disrupted daily routines.With govt school teachers, union leaders and employees working in govt colleges supporting the strike call, attendance among teaching and non-teaching staff remained low…
STF officials said three suspects were intercepted in a Maruti Suzuki Brezza near the Loharu feeder on the Dadri-Bhiwani road following specific intelligence inputs. Police allegedly recovered three foreign-made pistols, seven magazines and a live cartridge from them.Their interrogation led police to another alleged associate in Professor Colony, Dadri Jhajjar: Haryana Police’s special task force…
Dibrugarh: A reported sighting of a large carnivore, suspected to be a tiger, along the Longding-Bimlapur Road between Longding town and Longsom village in Arunachal Pradesh, has prompted the forest department to issue a public advisory.According to the advisory issued on August 25 by Longding range forest officer Dani Taker, a verbal report of the…
Govt told CAG that police records capture only those accident cases in which an FIR has been registered Jaipur: Rajasthan’s road-safety planning has been based on accident data that may not capture the full scale of crashes in the state, with medical and health department recording more than three times the accident cases recorded by…
T V Somanathan has directed all central ministries, state govts and UT administrations to prepare time-bound implementation plans NEW DELHI: In the Centre’s first formal push to enforce compliance with Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act across the govt, Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan has directed all central ministries, state govts and UT administrations to…
Australian man Michael thought he found his soulmate in Melanie and transferred money. But it was a deepfake. A retired psychologist in his 70s has been scammed out of $180,000 while he believed he had found his soulmate online. Queensland’s Michael continued his long-distance courtship with Melanie, a nurse in South Africa, until she turned…
Canadian voice actor Peter Cullen, best known for voicing the heroic Optimus Prime across numerous ‘Transformers’ films, TV shows and video games, as well as the gloomy Eeyore in several ‘Winnie the Pooh’ projects, has died at the age of 85. Peter Cullen’s family releases statement Cullen passed away on Wednesday at his home in…
The June 2026 FMGE has triggered protests after just 12.38 per cent of candidates qualified, prompting calls for relief and a review of the paper. The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has signaled that it is willing to consider genuine concerns raised by foreign medical graduates (FMGs) over the June 2026 Foreign…
Sumit Nagal of India. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for BMW) India’s Sumit Nagal’s US Open campaign ended in the qualifying round after he lost in straight sets to France’s Arthur Gea in New York.The top-seeded Frenchman won 6-3, 7-6(4) to move into the second round, while Nagal’s wait for another Grand Slam main-draw appearance…
A cocoa processor in Dong Nai, Vietnam, has turned a long-standing waste problem into part of the solution for one of its biggest production headaches. Trong Duc Cocoa Company, the country’s second-largest cocoa producer, generates around 5,000 tons of empty fruit pods every year after extracting fresh beans. Rather than letting that waste pile up,…
