A team from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) arrived in Kozhikode on Saturday after a Nipah virus infection was confirmed in the district.The team held discussions with Revenue minister AP Anil Kumar, doctors and district administration officials to review the situation and assess measures being taken to prevent further spread of the virus….
NEW DELHI: Top aide of Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay met Union minister Bhupendra Singh on Saturday. Rebel TMC MP Satabdi Roy was also present at the meeting.Bandyopadhyay’s name was not in the list of 19 of 20 rebel TMC MPs who have expressed their willingness to side with the National Democratic…
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency has launched a dedicated digital training programme for examination officials on the iGOT Karmayogi Bharat platform to strengthen supervision and invigilation of its examinations, including NEET-UG.Titled ‘Pariksha Karmayogi: Capacity-Building Programme for Examination Officials’, the programme has been designed to strengthen the capacity of examination functionaries and to ensure the…
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday urged parties that had broken away from the Congress to come together again, saying the Congress needed to be strengthened to fight the BJP. Rejecting Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ recent remark that the Congress was a “sinking ship”, Raut said the party remained an important political…
The kitchen still smells the same, but no one’s cooking for three anymore. The light over the dining table, once dimmed by 9 pm to signal the end of the day, now stays on whenever someone feels like it, or off, for weeks, when the house empties out entirely.Across Indian cities, a quiet shift is…
You can search the internet on how to survive in space, but that does not make you an astronaut. You have opinions about cricketers, but you would not be coaching Virat Kohli on what to do on the pitch. You have opinions about geopolitics but has that ever made you the external affairs minister?So why…
The Iranian Embassy in India on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s allegation that Iran was behind the drone attack on Indian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the accusation “baseless.” The embassy further slammed Washington, accusing it of attempting to divert attention from the recent strikes on ships carrying Indian crew members.In a…
IAF AN-32 aircraft crashes in Assam, 5 dead; Delhiites to pay more for electricity from next month ‘Routine sortie’: IAF on what led to An-32 aircraft crash in Assam that killed 5 The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed that five personnel were killed after an AN-32 transport aircraft crashed during a routine sortie near Jorhat,…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday mounted a strong counterattack against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut after he compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and called him as an “aghori”.The ruling party said Raut’s comments reflected the opposition’s growing frustration and alleged that he had insulted not only the prime minister but…
NEW DELHI: The govt has appointed Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth, currently serving as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, as the next Chief Army with effect from June 30. The present Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi retires from service the same day.Over a distinguished military career spanning nearly four decades, Lt General Seth has…
