NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk Saturday refused intravenous fluids, oral rehydration solution and medication despite an independent AIIMS expert endorsing Safdarjung Hospital’s assessment that he urgently requires fluid and electrolyte therapy. Doctors said Wangchuk remains conscious and haemodynamically stable but is showing clinical signs of dehydration, while his family has not yet consented to…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday that Operation Sindoor was testimony to India’s defence preparedness, sharpened by the transformation of defence sector through Modi-led govt’s sustained efforts.“Advanced systems such as Akash Teer, Akash missile system and BrahMos were effectively used during the operation alongside various other state-of-the-art equipment. This is due to…
NEW DELHI: Drawing a distinction between using abuse language and the offence of obscenity, Supreme Court has said that use of mere swear words, profanities and vulgar expletives, however distasteful or uncivil they may be, cannot be equated with obscenity and is not an offence. It set aside conviction under Section 294 for a person…
SRIHARIKOTA: A sudden hold in the final five minutes of the countdown briefly froze the celebration waiting to erupt at Sriharikota. Then, after a tense 35-minute delay and a restart of the launch sequence, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 roared off the first launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 12.05 pm Saturday, becoming India’s…
Move Seen As Part Of Govt’s Outreach To Oppn For Delimit Bill Support NEW DELHI: A day after a parliamentary committee abruptly deferred the adoption of its report on a contentious anti-graft bill, another parliamentary panel, which is examining govt’s proposed law to replace multiple higher education regulators with one umbrella body, has called off…
NEW DELHI: Medical colleges across the country will now decide faculty appointments and promotions on their own, with the National Medical Commission (NMC) ending routine eligibility clearances. Only exceptional cases involving regulatory ambiguity will be taken up by the regulator for a fee of Rs 25,000 plus GST.The decision comes after it was observed that…
CBSE results for 2nd edition class 10 board exams out NEW DELHI: CBSE Saturday declared the results of the Class X Second Board Examination 2026, taking the overall pass percentage — after combining the main and second exam results — to nearly 96.8.In the main board examination, CBSE had recorded an overall Class X pass…
SRINAGAR: School holidays in Kashmir have been extended by three days and Amarnath yatra suspended following forecast of an adverse weather spell from July 20 to July 23, even as mercury continued to rise across the region on Saturday, with Srinagar recording a maximum temperature of 35.9 degree.“It was a severe heat day in Kashmir…
JAMMU: Army troops opened fire after noticing a suspicious movement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir on Friday night.“The small arms firing was reported from the Tarkundi forward area around 10 pm on Friday and continued for nearly one-and-a-half hours. However, there were no reports of any…
Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 lifts off from Sriharikota on Saturday, becoming India’s first privately developed orbital-class launch vehicle to successfully place payloads into low Earth orbit. NEW DELHI: With the successful launch of India’s first privately designed and developed orbital-class launch vehicle Vikram-1 of Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday, the country’s first baby SpaceX is born.With maiden…
