CWC discusses Vande Mataram, Chhatron ki Goonj & chanda chori NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee Wednesday directed the party’s chief ministers to come up with a concrete plan to revamp education and examination systems in their states, which the party can showcase across the country – in an imaginative bid to tap into the…
Image Credit: Courtesy of Alex Webster Mangroves may not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think about a pet, but Florida teenager Alex Webster is turning that idea into a unique environmental mission. Through the ‘My Pet Mangrove programme’, Alex is encouraging people to form a personal connection with these important…
Miners at work in Panna (Instagram) Did you know that by just paying ₹200, you can lease a small patch of diamond mine in Panna, Madhya Pradesh and can spend weeks digging through its soil. If you are lucky and discover a diamond or two, it could change your life forever! No, this is not…
NEW DELHI: NCERT has reconstituted the team tasked with preparing political science textbooks for Classes XI and XII, bringing together university academics, schoolteachers and its own faculty members, with the first of the two books scheduled to be ready by Nov.The 20-member panel includes faculty members from JNU, Delhi University, Ignou, National Law University Delhi,…
NEW DELHI: Six months after bringing back a pregnant Sunali Khatun and her son from Bangladesh on orders of SC, her father’s counsel Wednesday informed the court that her husband has also been repatriated to India and joined the family in Bengal.Sunali and her family were picked up from Delhi during an identification verification drive…
NEW DELHI: Though the legitimacy of a child born during marriage is presumed, Supreme Court Wednesday held that a child can be subjected to a paternity test in a matrimonial dispute in which a man has sought divorce on the ground of alleged unchaste character of his wife and has claimed that he is not…
Around 80 people were rescued from the building,which also houses other guest houses, lodges, eateries,offices and retail outlets. KOLKATA: Nine people, at least five of them Bangladeshi nationals, choked to death in their sleep after a fire broke out at a lodge inside a five-storey building on Free School Street in central Kolkata around 1.40…
MUZAFFARNAGAR: A total of 97 pending files involving murder and other heinous offences have been recalled from the court of additional district and sessions judge Ravi Kumar Diwakar, days after it emerged that he had awarded death sentences to 22 convicts in 10 cases over four months.The files were returned on the orders of the…
Palestine ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh, NEW DELHI: With India looking to ramp up its development assistance to Palestine, both sides Wednesday announced signing of an MoU for construction of a 200-bed Indian Super-Speciality Hospital in Palestine which will include modern medical facilities and a trauma centre.The Palestine ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh,…
Union minister Piyush Goyal along with UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath during the launch of five-day UP-Japan Investment Meet 2026, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: CM Yogi Adityanath Wednesday invited Japanese companies to make UP their “second home” as the state received a major investment boost with the virtual groundbreaking of two Japan-backed projects…