NEW DELHI: The Prachand light combat helicopters have now also been cleared for flying after the Dhruv advanced light helicopters (ALHs) last month. Both the Dhruv and Prachand choppers were grounded after an ALH crash killed two Coast Guard pilots and an aircrew diver in Porbandar on Jan 5.The choppers – manufactured by defence PSU…
MYSURU: Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the alleged Mysore urban development authority site scam, has attached 92 properties in Muda-developed layouts collectively valued at Rs 100 crore. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and family were under the scanner in the alleged scam as the CM’s wife, Parvathi, had been allotted 14 sites in fashionable layouts in Mysuru…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG 2025, held on May 4, was conducted securely, thanks to enhanced security measures put in place by ministry of education, in coordination with state authorities. However, students and parents/guardians have raised serious concerns over errors in the question paper and delays in redressal of grievances, urging National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond…
DEHRADUN: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the United Nations Security Council‘s (UNSC) decision to appoint Pakistan as vice-chair of its anti-terror panel was like “asking the cat to guard milk”. The UN decision is not only surprising but also raises a question mark over the seriousness of the global body in the fight…
NEW DELHI: Sixty-four-year-old Saraswati Devi was married off at 16 in 1976, and by the time she was 30, she was a mother to five sons. If she could do it all over again, Saraswati says she would have fewer children. But her granddaughter Pooja Kumari today has a voice. A graduate, married at 22,…
NEW DELHI: Taking a “zero casualty approach” to mitigate and deal with the menace of floods in the country, home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the preparedness of various agencies engaged in flood management and stressed the dissemination of early warning alerts to the grassroots level, as well as timely action for flood control…
NEW DELHI: After a social media post claiming that an Indian student was detained and handcuffed at Newark airport in New Jersey went viral, the Indian govt formally raised the matter with the US embassy here. Official sources said the Indian embassy in Washington and Indian consulate in New York have also been in touch…
NEW DELHI: Even as India’s fertility rate is declining, many people in India, especially women, still face significant barriers to making free and informed decisions about their reproductive lives, says the UN Population Fund’s State of World Population Report released Tuesday. These barriers create what the report identified as India’s “high fertility and low fertility…
TITUSVILLE (FLORIDA): Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is part of the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), will be carrying with him a unique set of postcards designed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru — a symbolic tribute from one of India’s premier science institutions to the nation’s spacefaring aspirations.Shukla, selected…
A mirage appears on Kartavya Path during a hot summer afternoon, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Barely days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted ministers and top bureaucrats to move to new allocated office spaces for expediting the construction of new buildings along Kartavya Path, housing and urban affairs ministry (MoHUA) will be the…
