NEW DELHI: Five months after keeping in abeyance the SC judgment accepting 100-metres elevation definition for Aravali, the Supreme Court on Monday reserved its decision on composition of the High-Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) to define afresh what constituted Aravali Hills and Ranges, its extent and forest cover.Appearing for ministry of forest, environment and climate change,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday termed “very serious” the forced employment of minor girls in orchestras, mainly in Bihar and West Bengal, and massage parlours, in Delhi and Rajasthan, and their subsequent sexual exploitation and trafficking and sought comprehensive responses from the governments on steps to protect them.Appearing for NGO ‘Just Rights for…
Congress slams 4th fuel hike in 10 days, calls PM Modi ‘Inflation Man’, ‘Mehengai Manav’ NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge warned that “fuel loot” will have a cascading effect on every aspect of the economy, and will hurt the poor and the middle class. He pointed out that the Modi govt has increased petrol…
NEW DELHI: The government on Monday said it was now delivering more domestic LPG cylinders, meeting current demand as well as clearing backlog, indicating that panic buying had eased and availability of cooking gas had improved since March.Petroleum ministry’s joint secretary Sujata Sharma said the delivery time for cooking gas cylinders from the date of…
THANE: The Tieten Medicity Hospital successfully performed one of Thane’s first robotic telesurgeries for gall bladder removal (robotic cholecystectomy) using the indigenously developed Mizzo Endo 4000 robotic surgical system.The robotic procedure was performed through a secure 5G-enabled network with an ultra-low latency of less than 10 milliseconds. The surgery was remotely performed on the patient…
NEW DELHI: One in six adolescents in rural north India reported facing a major stressful event within just six months, with academic pressure, poverty, bullying, domestic violence and family conflict emerging as major triggers behind depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts among teenagers, according to an AIIMS-linked study that warns of a widening but largely invisible…
LUCKNOW: With the tenure of gram panchayats across Uttar Pradesh ending on Tuesday, the state government has issued an order allowing outgoing 57,694 gram pradhans to continue in administrative roles until fresh panchayat bodies are constituted.The Panchayati Raj Department clarified that the five-year term of gram panchayats elected after the 2021 elections will formally conclude…
AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale…
NEW DELHI: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a swift operation, 300 tourists have been evacuated stranded in a cable car in Gulmarg. The rescue operation is followed by a technical glitch resulted in halting of Gulmarg Gondola service at the north Kashmir tourist resort of Gulmarg on Monday.Sharing a post on X, he said,…
National Medical Commission NEW DELHI: In a major relief for foreign medical graduates (FMGs) and states struggling with shortage of internship seats, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has extended permission for Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) in recognised non-teaching hospitals till May 2028.The earlier extension was valid only till May 2026. Officials said the latest…