NEW DELHI: NCERT on Tuesday issued an “unconditional and unqualified apology” and withdrew its recently published Class VIII social science textbook after Supreme Court objected to a chapter discussing corruption and other challenges within the judiciary.In a statement, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) said the book – “Exploring Society: India and…
Revised Cost Estimate Under Sanction: Govt NEW DELHI: Now it’s official that railways will run B28, the bullet train being manufactured in India, on the first stretch of Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project that is scheduled to be operational in Aug 2027. The railway ministry informed a parliamentary panel that the national transporter has decided to…
Premature To Say Anything For Sure: Experts NEW DELHI: Latest update from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on the possibility of El Nino episode later this year may be bad news for India’s monsoon. Though, experts said, it would be premature to say anything definitely at this juncture, an El Nino year usually negatively impacts…
At least six people were killed and several others injured after a bus caught fire Tuesday evening (local time) in the town of Kerzers, known in French as Chiètres, in Fribourg canton in western Switzerland, police said.Emergency services launched a major rescue operation at the scene, with local media reporting that a helicopter had been…
BENGALURU: Within hours of US and Israeli strikes hitting Iran on Feb 28, over 50 hacktivist groups aligned with Iranian interests had activated on Telegram. Many possibly had no background in industrial control systems and no state direction. What they had was an internet connection and an AI tool that could hand them a working…
DEHRADUN: Iranians in India, many of them long vocal against the regime in Tehran, have begun limiting their social media presence and deleting anti-regime posts after statements and warnings by the Iranian prosecutor general’s office on Monday said the govt there would confiscate properties of Iranians living abroad for backing US-Israel attacks on the country….
Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha recently addressed actor Taapsee Pannu’s remark about the portrayal of women in films. Speaking to Siddharth Kannan in an interview, the director shared his perspective on the debate around body representation in Bollywood and South Indian cinema. He also spoke about working with Taapsee and his past comment comparing her to Kangana…
NEW DELHI: Facing a severe LNG (liquefied natural gas) crunch, govt on Monday invoked the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, to reallocate gas supply and slashed allocation for fertiliser and other industries, while seeking to ensure full availability for priority sectors such as domestic piped natural gas (PNG) for kitchens, compressed natural gas (CNG) for transport…
Representative Image. Mark Zuckerberg interviewing Sam Altman in 2016 Facebook parent Meta has reportedly acquired Moltbook. Moltbook is the social networking site for AI agents, a platform that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously joked about. While acquiring the OpenClaw AI agent last month, Altman played down Moltbook but said the underlying technology offered a glimpse…
Pilibhit: A pothole on Bareilly-Haridwar NH-74 turned out to be a blessing for a 50-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh, reviving her, quite literally, after there was clinically “no sign of life in her”.Declared ‘brain-dead’ by doctors and discharged from a Bareilly hospital with almost “no hope of survival”, Vineeta Shukla was being brought back home…
