16 March 2025. Nearly a month before the start of the Indian Premier League 2025, Shashank Singh said on a podcast that Punjab Kings would finish in the top two of the points table this season. Shubhankar Mishra, the seasoned journalist hosting the show, let out an audible laugh—unable to believe what Shashank had just…
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced a new six-digit access code-based activation system for students’ Digilocker accounts, aimed at enabling Class 10 and 12 students to securely access their digital academic documents. With this development, students can now retrieve their marksheets, migration certificates, and other documents under the ‘Issued Documents’ section of…
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in Aspinwall, Pa. She was 104. Her death, in a Veterans Affairs hospice facility, was confirmed by her daughter Margaret…
Teacher dress code Chandigarh CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh Education Department has ordained a dress code for teachers in the government schools of the city – formals, salwar-kameez, for men, women. “The uniform specifications of the dress outlines that female employees will don sarees, salwar kameez, while male employees will wear formal shirts and trousers,” the department said…
Punjab Kings’ Glenn Maxwell celebrates the wicket of Chennai Super Kings’ Rachin Ravindra during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match between Punjab Kings and Chennai Super Kings, in New Chandigarh. Punjab Kings all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has been fined 25 per cent of his match fees besides accumulating a demerit point for breaching the…
Charlotte Webb, who as a young woman helped code breakers decipher enemy signals at Britain’s top-secret Bletchley Park, died on Monday. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association and by the Bletchley Park Trust. Ms. Webb, known as Betty, was 18 when she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service,…
Mumbai Indians‘ skipper Harmanpreet Kaur received a fine of 10 percent of her match fee for expressing disagreement with the umpire’s ruling during their match against UP Warriorz at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.“Harmanpreet Kaur admitted to the Level 1 offence under Article 2.8 which relates to showing dissent at an umpire’s decision during…
At the Trump Pizza Station in Kyiv, where the internet password is “TrumpLovesYou,” one woman burst into tears when she learned that the United States was suspending military aid to Ukraine. Another sipped a cappuccino with banana milk and lamented that the whole world seemed to be abandoning her country. Most people at the neighborhood…
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel NEW DELHI: Days after Uttarakhand implemented UCC, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat has announced the formation of a high-powered committee to assess the need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and draft a bill for its implementation. The decision, announced by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Tuesday,…
Uttarakhand becomes first state to launch UCC. NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand on Monday made history by becoming the first state to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the UCC portal and issued a notification marking the adoption of the civil code.At the launch, Dhami said, “Uniform Civil Code is a…