NEW DELHI: The Centre has made financial provisions to connect every government school in the country to the internet in the coming days, union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha while replying to a question on Wednesday.Pradhan said sustained efforts are underway to ensure that school classrooms are connected to global digital networks…
After finding out her sitar was cracked on a flight from London to Delhi, Anoushka Shankar posted: ‘How have you done this? I have special cases, you guys charge a handling fee and yet you’ve done this? This week, Anoushka Shankar did what she’s done for most of her life, reached for her sitar to…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal over the allegation of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over vote theft in the Lok Sabha. During the ongoing debate on electoral reforms in the Parliament, Shah took a jibe at the Congress leader’s “nuclear bomb” press conference said that his press conferences…
NEW DELHI: The Luthra brothers, owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, sought transit anticipatory bail in Delhi, maintaining their Thailand trip was work-related even as their Goa beach shack faces demolition after a nightclub fire that killed 25 people. Meanwhile, the civil aviation ministry moved to curb passenger inconvenience by deploying a special team to…
NEW DELHI: The Booth Level Officers (BLOs), who have been a silent and almost invisible part of India’s electoral machinery for decades, have suddenly found themselves at the centre of attention. The Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has placed them at the centre of one of the largest verification drives…
NEW DELHI: Two schools in Delhi’s Sadiq Nagar and Laxmi Nagar received a bomb threat on Wednesday, said Delhi Police. An investigation into the matter is underway. Additonally, the school Lovely Public Senior Secondary School, located in Priyadarshini Vihar, received a bomb threat via email on Wednesday.According to Aditya, a student at the school, they…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation has constituted an oversight team to monitor IndiGo’s operations amid large-scale disruptions reported across multiple airports. In an order dated December 10, 2025, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced that the move aims to address passenger inconvenience caused by flight delays and cancellations.The team comprises senior…
NEW DELHI: Forty-four former Supreme Court and high court judges have condemned what they described as a “motivated campaign” targeting Chief Justice of India Surya Kant over his comments in the Rohingya migrant case, saying critics had twisted a routine judicial query into accusations of bias, according to a statement.“Judicial proceedings can and should be…
Representative image (ANI) NEW DELHI: Nearly 24 lakh households in the country have so far been provided with rooftop solar systems under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSG: MBY), Union minister of state for new and renewable energy Shripad Yesso Naik informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.Replying to a separate question, the minister…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday declined to accept the ‘Veer Savarkar Award’, calling the organisers “irresponsible” for announcing his name without him having agreed to receive it.Tharoor was named among the first winners of the newly instituted Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, to be presented by Highrange Rural Development Society India.“I…