TRICHY: Union home minister Amit Shah’s two-day visit to poll-bound Tamil Nadu ended on an inconclusive note Monday, with no apparent breakthrough in BJP’s efforts to strengthen NDA in the state. There was anticipation that Shah would initiate alliance talks with potential partners, PMK and DMDK during the visit, while also seeking a resolution to…
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Kerala University’s Centre for Latin American Studies is paying the price for what could be the costliest ‘typo’ in its financial history – a careless bank clerk swapping ” with ‘$’ while transferring funds to a Brazil-based journalist as remuneration for four online lectures he delivered in 2023.The difference between the intended fee of…
LUCKNOW: Parents of the resident doctor of King George’s Medical University, who has been accused of sexually exploiting a colleague and pressuring her for religious conversion for marriage, were arrested from a rented flat in Thakurganj area of Lucknow on Monday.DCP (west zone) Vishwajeet Srivastava claimed Salimuddin (70) and his wife Khateeja (67), parents of…
INDORE: The sub-divisional magistrate of MP’s Dewas district was suspended on Sunday for alleged misconduct and indiscipline within hours of him granting permission to Congress for a public protest against what the official order acknowledges as an “indecent comment” by minister Kailash Vijayvargiya while responding to “14 water-contamination deaths” in Indore.Ujjain divisional commissioner Asheesh Singh’s…
KOLKATA/RAMPURHAT: Sunali Khatun, the pregnant Birbhum woman who was banished to Bangladesh as an illegal immigrant and forced to spend six months in a jail, gave birth to a son on Monday at a state-run hospital in Bengal. “For us, this is nothing short of a miracle. The child was born healthy despite Sunali being…
AMRITSAR: The officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj, has summoned Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann to appear at its secretariat on Jan 15 over alleged “anti-Sikh remarks”, “objectionable conduct”, and a recently surfaced video that the Takht says deeply hurt Sikh sentiments.Mann posted on X that he would appear before Sri Akal Takht…
MUMBAI: For the first time in the history of BMC general elections, candidates were asked to do more than just file their nomination forms and affidavits. All 2,516 aspirants who submitted nomination papers were required to write an essay – the instructions were to keep it between 100 and 500 words – spelling out how…
CM Yogi Adityanath meets PM Modi, JP Nadda and Amit Shah LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath met PM Narendra Modi and BJP brass in New Delhi on Monday amid buzz over the recently concluded SIR of electoral rolls and the much-anticipated reshuffle of the state cabinet.An official said Yogi discussed the SIR exercise, in…
NEW DELHI: From retooling classrooms to future-proofing jobs, India’s artificial intelligence strategy is decisively shifting towards people-first reform. Senior policymakers, academic leaders and industry experts on Monday flagged lifelong learning, human augmentation and inclusive skilling as central to India’s AI journey at a high-level Human Capital Working Group meeting hosted at IIT Guwahati.The two-day meeting…
Prithviraj Chavan (File photo) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday came out in support of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani for writing a letter to 2020 Delhi riots co-accused Umar Khalid.Chavan said that, as a person of Indian origin, Mamdani had “every right to intervene.”Also Read:…