New Delhi: Supreme Court on Monday proposed an interim committee, headed by a retired high court judge and comprising the district collector and Goswamis (pujaris), for management of Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan till Allahabad HC decides the validity of UP govt’s ordinance for all-round development of the temple area to provide facilities to pilgrims.A…
Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer in the special train. (Video grab) NEW DELHI: The 2025 edition of the Indian Premier League took a dramatic and unprecedented turn on Thursday night as the high-stakes clash between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals in Dharamsala was abruptly halted midway due to escalating border tensions between India and Pakistan.With…
“…Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”. John Maynard Keynes said that. Keynes was British, and possibly the world’s most famous economist ever. He was also the man “who saved capitalism from itself”. It was his idea that govts can…
NEW DELHI: With India generating about 150-500 million tonne of construction & demolition waste every year which poses serious challenges including air and water pollution, the Centre has notified rules to manage and recycle it under an extended producer responsibility (EPR) framework that makes it mandatory for every producer to dispose and manage such waste…
Representative image (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel recommended that the benefits under the central income support scheme (PM-Kisan) be extended to farm labourers, noting that nearly 55 per cent of the country’s population is engaged in the farm sector but not all as landowners.Currently, only landholder farmer families receive an annual Rs…
A recent awareness camp in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, provided free eye screenings for diabetic patients, focusing on early detection of diabetic retinopathy and other vision-related issues. The camp, organised by Vasan Eye Care, an ASG hospital, offered computerized eye screening, retina scanning, and comprehensive retina examinations.Over 100 diabetic patients attended the camp, consulting specialists who…
President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Brandon Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman, to become the keeper of the nation’s arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and warheads. Mr. Trump’s selection is a shift from a tradition in which the people who served as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration typically had…
NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif sees Rohit Sharma under pressure as he now has the twin task — to score runs as batter and use Jasprit Bumrah carefully as skipper — going forward in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.While Rohit flopped with the bat in the second game in Adelaide, scoring 3 and 6 in…