Shrawan’s (R) family’s only source of livelihood comes from washing utensils at ceremonies, along with occasional MGNREGS work JAIPUR: Shrawan Kumar, 19, of Rajasthan’s Balotra who toils in a factory while studying and whose parents wash dishes at village ceremonies to support life in a thatched two-room mud house, has cleared this year’s NEET.Shrawan was…
IED blast kills CRPF jawan near Jharkhand border in Odisha ROURKELA/RANCHI: A CRPF assistant sub-inspector was killed in an IED explosion during an area domination exercise in Odisha’s Sundargarh district near the border with Jharkhand early on Saturday. Satyaban Kumar Singh (34), from Kishinagar in Uttar Pradesh, was critically injured when the IED, suspected to…
File photo: Kunal Kamra (ANI) MUMBAI: Maharashtra legislative council chairperson Ram Shinde admitted a breach of privilege motion against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra over his parody song alluding to deputy CM Eknath Shinde and referred it to privilege committee. The motion was moved in March by BJP MLC Pravin Darekar. The committee will review the…
Representative image (Photo: ANI) India refused to associate itself with a statement by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) condemning Israel’s military strikes on Iran in another show of solidarity with Israel this week, after it abstained from voting on a UN resolution seeking a ceasefire in Gaza. Like India, Iran is also a member of…
Representative image (ANI) NEW DELHI: The UN Ocean Conference ended with the ‘High Seas Treaty’ moving closer to becoming a global law to safeguard life in international waters through long-term protection of marine biodiversity in the high seas. A growing international call for a precautionary pause on deep-sea mining was one of the highlights of…
In a crucial breakthrough in the firefighting and salvage mission of the Singapore-flagged MV Wan Hai 503, Indian maritime forces successfully transferred tow control of the distressed container vessel to an ocean-going tug, Offshore Warrior, on 13 June. The Indian Coast Guard (ICG), which had been holding the vessel off the Kerala coast for several…
Amid renewed tensions between India and Pakistan, revisiting shared histories can build bridges, says Canada-based Harleen Singh whose debut non-fiction ‘The Lost Heer’ highlights the silenced stories of women from colonial Punjab. From Dr Premdevi, likely Punjab’s first female doctor to Khadija Begum–the ‘first Punjabi lady MA’, the book—which sprang from Singh’s seven-year-old Instagram archive—seeks…
NEW DELHI: The Manipur police, in joint operations with personnel of Central armed police forces (CAPFs), Army and Assam Rifles, have recovered 328 arms, including 151 self-loading rifles, in intelligence-based operations undertaken across five Valley districts during the intervening night of May 13 and 14.The recoveries include 65 INSAS rifles, 6 AK series rifles, 73…
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday handed over Letter of Intent (LoI) to five foreign universities to set up their branch campuses in Mumbai. The five universities are — Chicago’s Illinois Tech, Scotland’s University of Aberdeen, UK’s University of York, University of Western Australia and Italy’s IED Instituto Europeo di Design….
NEW DELHI: Paving the way for fast-tracking the revamp of the country’s power corridor along Kartavya Path, some ministries will be moved to new buildings — permanently and temporarily — to allow reconstruction of their old addresses such as Nirman Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan.For example the ministries of home affairs, rural development and micro, small…