CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s AAP government informed the Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday that the withdrawal of state security to 434 at-risk individuals, including slain singer-rapper Sidhu Moosewala, was “transitory” and that guards assigned to all such people would be restored by June 7. The formal statement in the high court was in response to
NEW DELHI: India has commissioned a unique liquid-mirror telescope atop a mountain in the Himalayan range in Uttarakhand that will keep a watch on the overhead sky to identify transient or variable objects such space debris, asteroids, supernovae and gravitational lenses. It is the country’s first and the Asia’s largest liquid-mirror telescope. The telescope will
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul for questioning next week in a money laundering case registered against Young Indian, which owns Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) and its properties worth over Rs 800 crore (market value as estimated by ED). Sonia and her two children — Rahul
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her MP son Rahul Gandhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. While Sonia Gandhi, 75, has been asked to depose before the agency on June 8, Rahul Gandhi is understood to have been asked to
DEHRADUN: Consider this: 108 pilgrims dead in less than a month since the Char Dham yatra began on May 3 this year; 90 deaths recorded during the entire six-month period of the pilgrimage in 2019; 102 deaths in 2018 (whole season); 112 in 2017. The figure for 2020 and 2021 was significantly lower as the
NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) Monsoon arrived in Kerala on Sunday, three days ahead of its normal date of onset (June 1), beginning the four-month rainy season in the country, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) which has already predicted ‘normal’ and well-distributed rainfall during the season. This is only the third occasion in the
NEW DELHI: The academic disruptions due to the Covid-19 situation, with nearly a quarter of school children not having access to any digital devices, led to further deepening of the learning crisis in the country. When compared to the previous survey conducted in 2017, the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 of over 34 lakh students
An American translator who lives in Vermont, a Hindi novelist who lives in Delhi, a Bengali translator who played matchmaker and introduced them to each other, and a publisher based in the UK. It’s this unique collaboration that made literary history on Friday with Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel “Tomb of Sand“, translated into English by
NEW DELHI: Making the competition tougher, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET-UG 2022 for the first time breached the 18-lakh registrations mark and recorded an increase of 2.57 lakh aspirants this year from 2021. Moreover, there is a 274.3% increase in the number of candidates taking the exam in 12 Indian languages
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will look to further stregthen the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan during his conversation with Japan PM Fumio Kishida in Tokyo In a statement released by the PMO ahead of Modi’s Japan tour, the Prime Minister gave details of what’s on the agenda for the
