Category: India

For 18-year-old Rajit Gupta, large banners and hoardings displaying photos and names of previous year’s toppers of competitive exams acted as an inspiration, reminding constantly of his aim to find his own photo and name on one of those advertising spots. Rajit Gupta (ANI) A resident of Kota, considered India’s coaching capital, Gupta bagged the top […]

Schools across the state reopened on Monday for the new academic year after the summer break, with health and education authorities implementing renewed precautionary measures due to a recent increase in Covid-19 cases in the state. The state government, anticipating the public health risk, had issued a circular last week stressing the need to follow Covid-19 […]

Tonight, as they have done on three other memorable, heartbreaking occasions over the past 18 years, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take the stage in an IPL final. For an incredible fourth time, Virat Kohli, who has worn the RCB colours since its founding, will walk into a capacity stadium filled with the most loyal fans in […]

New Delhi: The month of May was unusually cooler this year, with average daytime temperatures recording the seventh lowest for the month since 1901 and the lowest in the last four years, according to the India Meteorological Department’s temperature and rainfall report for May. The IMD report highlighted that the average rainfall across the country in […]

Chandigarh, Haryana’s Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapur held a meeting with senior officials and issued directions to enhance the operational efficiency of Emergency Response Vehicles . Haryana DGP gives directions to make Emergency Response Vehicles functioning more effective He said that the ERV represents the ‘face’ of Haryana Police. Its primary responsibility is to respond […]

Jun 02, 2025 05:25 PM IST Sukma SP Kiran G Chavan said nine of the 16 Maoists who surrendered were from Kerlapenda village under Chintalanar police station limits. BASTAR: Sixteen Maoists who had a collective bounty of ₹25 lakh surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, police said on Monday. Security personnel after an operation against Maoists on […]

The Kerala high court on Monday ruled that a transgender couple can be listed simply as “parents”, rather than “mother” and “father”, on their child’s birth certificate, in a decision that marks a significant moment in the legal recognition of non-traditional families and gender identity in official documents. The order was passed by a vacation bench […]

India has put forth its expectations on the ideal “Baku To Belem Roadmap to 1.3T” ahead of the Bonn Climate Meeting which begins on June 16, stating that without sufficient climate finance, even proposed nationally determined contributions will not materialise, leave alone any ambitious future NDCs. The NCQG outcome of COP 29 was adopted despite India’s […]

Jun 03, 2025 05:06 AM IST The NHRC statement also referred to reports that the government has deployed central armed forces in various areas of the Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh ITANAGAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday took cognisance of media reports on protests by hundreds of people to the proposed Siang Upper […]

Jun 03, 2025 05:16 AM IST PM Modi is likely to set the agenda for the remainder of the government’s term as well as outline the sectors that will see a renewed push Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the council of ministers on June 4, days ahead of the first anniversary of […]