CHENNAI: There were signs of the rift in AIADMK widening on Sunday with party seniors C Ve Shanmugam and S P Velumani holding meeting with AIADMK MLAs even as general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami convened a separate district secretaries meeting.AIADMK sources said majority of AIADMK MLAs and district secretaries attended the meeting convened by the…
How a UPI toll payment led Bengal cops to suspects in Chandranath Rath murder LUCKNOW: A UPI payment made at a toll plaza on Nivedita Setu has emerged as the crucial breakthrough in the cops into the murder of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of West Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari, with police arresting three…
Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay has sparked controversy by deeming popular English nursery rhymes ‘Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa’ and ‘Rain Rain Go Away’ as detrimental to Indian culture LUCKNOW: Higher education minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogendra Upadhyay has triggered a controversy by describing two popular English nursery rhymes – ‘Johnny Johnny, Yes Papa’…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has pushed back against growing concerns of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble. He has stated that the industry is instead facing a shortage of computing capacity, chips, and memory. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Fink said demand for AI infrastructure is outpacing supply at an unexpected…
Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday inaugurated Multi Lane Free Flow tolling on Delhi’s Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II), bringing the capital’s latest transport corridor into India’s expanding barrier-less toll network. The move is aimed at boosting connectivity while easing travel for adjoining villages and surrounding habitations. The UER-II rollout follows…
JAIPUR/MUMBAI: Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) has launched a probe into alleged malpractices in NEET (UG) 2026 after the National Testing Agency (NTA) received inputs from Rajasthan and Uttarakhand regarding question sets circulated before the May 3 exam that allegedly overlapped with the actual paper.Additional DGP (SOG) Vishal Bansal said investigators found a set…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor questioned the outcome of the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, suggesting that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may have played a decisive role in the BJP’s victory in the state.Referring to the SIR exercise, Tharoor alleged that large-scale deletions from voter rolls and delays in adjudicating…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s choice of a sleek black suit for his oath-taking ceremony, inspired by his film ‘Beast’, signaled a deliberate move towards a new political image. CHENNAI: Even before Vijay declared “This is a new beginning” on Sunday, after taking oath as chief minister, his suit had made the statement.“Vijay…
Pakistan army chief Asim Munir on Sunday claimed that New Delhi approached the United States for mediation and a ceasefire following last year’s conflict after Operation Sindoor.While addressing a ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to mark the first anniversary of ‘Marka-e-Haq’, the name given by Islamabad to the four-day conflict with India, Munir claimed…
Scientists have found what may very well be the oldest surviving map of the universe ever made, and it has been sitting under our noses all these years, locked away in the pages of an ancient medieval book. Experts believe this discovery might have something to do with Hipparchus, the renowned ancient astronomer who lived…