Bihar CM Nitish Kuma with his son Nishant Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Posters urging Nishant Kumar, son of Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar, to lead the party appeared outside the JD(U) office in Patna on Monday, days after the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) landslide win in the Bihar…
In an era where global powers are flexing their nuclear muscles and dormant arsenals hum with renewed urgency, India stands at a perilous crossroads: should it reignite the fire of nuclear testing to assert its strategic sovereignty, or maintain the delicate restraint that has balanced diplomacy and deterrence for decades? The shadow of India’s 1998…
Representative image (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s push to expand medical education into underserved districts has entered a new phase, with the Centre revealing in the Lok Sabha that 11 new medical colleges have received in-principle approval under a Public–Private Partnership (PPP) model. These colleges will come up by upgrading district hospitals — a shift…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday warned of a “strict and decisive” action against Bangladeshi and Rohingya “infiltrators” in the state. He advised the state residents to ensure that the “identity of any individual is thoroughly verified before employing them in domestic or business activities.““My esteemed residents of the state, The…
AGRA: A week after the death a 32-year-old woman constable posted at Banna Devi in Aligarh district on November 29, a case of abetment to suicide has been registered against sub-inspector Sandeep Kumar posted in Kasganj and constable Kulveer Balyan posted in Roravar police station.“A case under section 108 (abetment of suicide) has been registered,…
File photo: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant CHANDIGARH: In a significant push for modernising the country’s prison ecosystem, CJI Surya Kant has advocated bold, tech-integrated reforms, ranging from digital-skills training to UK-style inmate-monitoring systems, aimed at transforming prisons from punitive spaces into “engines of reintegration”.Highlighting the need to align prison training with the “economy…
PANAJI: Grief curdled into rage outside the morgue of Goa Medical College and Hospital on Sunday as relatives and friends of the 25 victims in the Arpora nightclub blaze, most of them migrant staffers, squatted in the harsh afternoon sun and demanded to know: Where are the owners?Nobody from the management of Birch By Romeo…
NEW DELHI: A DTC bus driver was dragged from his vehicle and beaten to death allegedly by a group of wedding guests in Aman Vihar late Saturday in a brutal burst of road rage. Police have arrested one of the suspects, Rahul, while three are on the run. A video on social media shows the…
PANAJI: Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at northern Goa’s Arpora located approximately 16km from Panaji, was constructed on a salt pan with inadequate safety measures, highlighting significant infrastructure concerns following a Saturday night fire incident that claimed 25 lives.The establishment, marketed as Goa’s first island club, faces scrutiny over its safety protocols and building design….
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, long seen as a launchpad for India’s brightest startups, has quietly crossed an even more telling milestone. It incorporated a company of its own. This is not an incubated spinoff or a faculty-seeded venture, but an organisation owned and anchored by IIT Bombay itself.On Nov 7, 2025, BharatGen…