In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments. He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice…
Tech billionaire and mastermind behind the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, has once again stirred controversy. On Monday, he sent an email to millions of federal employees, demanding them to report on the work they’ve done in the past week. Any employee who does not respond will be assumed to have resigned from…
For decades, scientists have scoured the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth—but what if the answer has been hiding in plain sight? NASA’s latest asteroid sample, retrieved from deep space, has left researchers stunned, igniting speculation that we may not be alone. The findings, shrouded in secrecy until now, could challenge everything we thought…
NEW DELHI: About 58% of the establishments were headed by female proprietors in the manufacturing sector in 2023-24, an increase of 4 percentage points from the previous year, results of a survey showed on Wednesday.The detailed results of the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) 2023-24 also showed that overall, 28.1% of total workers,…
CUTTACK: If a husband doubts his wife’s chastity without proof, she is “perfectly justified” to live separately and is also entitled to maintenance, Orissa high court ruled recently.Justice Gourishankar Satapathy noted this while upholding a Baripada family court order directing a man to payRs 3,000 monthly maintenance to his estranged wife. The husband had moved…
MEERUT: SP MLA Rafiq Ansari, representing Meerut city assembly constituency, was acquitted Friday by MP-MLA court in a 1995 riot and arson case. The MLA’s advocate, Vivek Kumar, said “the court found no evidence to proceed with the charges”.The case, lodged on Sept 12, 1995, involved allegations of rioting and arson during a protest against…
PAN Card serves as both a tax identifier and physical identity proof. PAN 2.0: With the Modi government announcing a comprehensive upgrade of the PAN infrastructure, taxpayers are wondering whether PAN 2.0 with enhanced QR code will be similar to m-Aadhaar or e-Aadhaar systems. Will PAN 2.0 feature dynamic QR codes for KYC, identity verification…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar raised concerns over possible discrepancies in the votes recorded by Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections. However, he added that he did not have concrete evidence to back these claims.“There is some difference in the votes of EVMs, but at the moment,…
NEW DELHI: Canada has officially denied it has any evidence to link PM Modi, foreign minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval with the murder of pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, distancing itself from a Canadian media report earlier this week that quoted an anonymous security official to suggest that all three shared culpability for…