JAIPUR: Rajasthan education department has directed a govt school in Jaipur offering Urdu as a third language to suspend classes in the subject and introduce Sanskrit as an option.The February 10 order to Mahatma Gandhi Govt School (RAC Battalion) states that the decision was based on a letter addressed to the department from the office … Read more
Maharashtra state cyber police have declined YouTuber Samay Raina‘s request for additional time to participate in the investigation in the case registered against him, podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, social media influencer Apoorva Makhija, and the organisers of India’s Got Latent over an obscene joke made by Allahbadia during the show. While Raina’s lawyer requested an extension … Read more
Trump prioritises Americans’ safety: Officials on Pannun plot NEW DELHI: President Donald Trump prioritises nothing more than the safety of every American, said senior Trump administration officials in first remarks on the foiled murder-for-hire plot against US national and India-designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The Biden administration had indicted an Indian govt official for orchestrating … Read more
LUCKNOW: The guests expected a grand spectacle – but not one with claws and fangs. A shadow slinked in under glow of fairy lights at nutritionist Akshay Srivastava and Jyoti Kumari’s wedding in Lucknow’s Para area Wednesday night. It wasn’t a monkeyshine. It was a leopard.A guest gasped, another shrieked, and suddenly, the entire party … Read more
NEW DELHI: IIM-Mumbai and IIT-Mandi have emerged as the most influential institutions in India on social media, leading the ‘HEI Success Stories‘ and ‘Know Your Institutions‘ campaigns and showcasing how these institutions leveraged digital platforms for global reach.Generating over 27 lakh impressions across multiple social media platforms, the success stories campaign underscored the growing interest … Read more
JAMMU: Banned terrorist group People’s Anti-Fascistic Front (PAFF), a proxy of Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has claimed responsibility for the IED attack near LoC in Jammu’s Akhnoor that killed Captain Karamjit Singh Bakshi and Naik Mukesh Tuesday.PAFF released Thursday a video of the explosion on social media. Banned by India in Jan 2023, the group’s terrorists … Read more
INDORE: The 337mt of Union Carbide waste that was transported from Bhopal in 12 trucks on Jan 2 this year was unloaded at a disposal facility in Pithampur, MP, on Thursday, five days before a HC hearing.Dhar district collector Priyank Mishra said offloading followed public consultations for transparency. The containers are now placed in batches … Read more
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday made it clear that only Parliament has the jurisdiction to constitutionally remove a high court judge as he pointed out that a notice for removal of Justice Shekhar Yadav of Allahabad high court was pending with him.Members of opposition parties … Read more
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi a few hours ago, wanted to do business in India but that country is a very hard place to do business because of the high tariffs. A Few hours after PM Modi met Musk at the Blair … Read more
KOTTAYAM: A day after five third-year students of Govt College of Nursing in Kerala’s Kottayam were arrested for brutally ragging their juniors, a video surfaced on Thursday, showing the seniors laughing as a junior writhes in pain when poked with a geometry divider. They counted the number of times they poked him with the sharp … Read more
JAIPUR: A 24-year-old Bajrang Dal activist was shot at as he and some others chased a group of alleged cattle smugglers in Rajasthan’s Dholpur late Wednesday night.Lucky Parmar, hit in the right leg, was taken to the district hospital after the skirmish in Bari, about 45km from Dholpur town. Three of the alleged smugglers were … Read more
PRAYAGRAJ: The spiritual journey to Maha Kumbh proved to be the “final destination” for 54 devotees facing health issues. These deaths in the mela area since the world’s largest congregation began on Jan 13 do not include 30 pilgrims who died in the Mauni Amavasya stampede on Jan 29, reports Rajeev Mani.The congregation also witnessed … Read more