Global growth will slow sharply this year as trade disruptions triggered by sweeping US tariffs increase uncertainty and fragment markets, the World Bank warned in its latest economic outlook released Tuesday.The multilateral lender cut its 2025 global GDP growth forecast to 2.3%, down from the 2.7% estimated in January, citing a weakening trade environment and…
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: Supreme Court Tuesday refused leniency to an advocate, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment for using abusive language in 2015 to outrage the modesty of a judicial officer in a Delhi courtroom and rejected his plea for reducing the jail term to the six months already undergone, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The advocate, Sanjay Rathod,…
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…
LUCKNOW: Sonam Raghuvanshi paid Rs 50,000 to her alleged lover, Raj Kushwaha, to facilitate his and the three other accused people’s travel to Shillong and monitor her movements along with her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, police said, quoting the confession of two of the arrested accused.Raj Kushwaha, along with Vishal Singh, Anand Kurmi, and Akash Rajput,…
Brittany is the power behind Patrick Mahomes’ rise (Image via: Getty Images) Patrick Mahomes is known for his rocket arm and MVP stats, but it’s his off-field devotion that’s stealing hearts. In a recent interview, the three-time Super Bowl champion opened up about what fuels his confidence and it wasn’t football. Mahomes credited his wife,…
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…
