New Delhi: More than a decade after govt mandated installation of speed limiting devices or speed limiting functions in all public transport vehicles, enforcement remains lax, and Supreme Court Tuesday directed Centre, states and UTs to ensure compliance.Rule 118 of Central Motor Vehicles Rules provides for speed governors, and SC had passed various orders for…
NEW DELHI: For 15 days, Sunaina Devi (55) survived on river water and the fragile shelter of a half-submerged thatched hut, after being swept 50km downstream by the monsoon-swollen Ganga. She was found alive Monday by fishermen who heard her cries.Devi, from Kapurpatti village in Bihar’s Buxar district, had gone to bathe on Aug 30…
FILE – Colombia’s James Rodriguez celebrates after defeating Costa Rica at the end of a friendly soccer match in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File) For 15 years, James Rodríguez was one of the first names that came to mind whenever Colombia walked onto a football pitch. The No. 10 shirt…
Woman returns home after 6 months, one thing in her father’s garden makes her forget life’s troubles Not every feeling of comfort comes from a conversation or a big moment. Sometimes, it is tied to something much quieter, something that has been part of a home for years. For Nivedita Tiwari, one such feeling is…
NEW DELHI: A single bad day should not decide a student’s future – and a poorly equipped examination centre should not ruin it. These concerns feature in thousands of suggestions received by the high-powered task force set up to overhaul India’s examination system.The panel, led by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, has been consulting stakeholders ahead…
Asgar Ali Vora met the PM on Sept 8 and sought his intervention in the land dispute Bhayander: Days after an 81-year-old Mira Road resident met his schoolmate, PM Narendra Modi, alleging encroachment of his land in Bhayander by a construction firm owned by BJP MLA Narendra Mehta, the politician said on Tuesday that he…
New Delhi: BJP Tuesday accused Congress of keeping its partisan interests above national interests, slamming the opposition party for the absence of its three chief ministers at the Brics gala dinner. “Political and ideological differences are always there but there should no difference when it comes to national interest,” BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj said.Three Congress…
NEW DELHI: Govt reiterated Tuesday that it had invited Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman for both Brics and a bilateral visit. In a letter dated July 14, accessed by TOI, PM Narendra Modi had invited Rahman for the Brics summit in his capacity as Bimstec chair and said his participation would “greatly enrich the deliberations”.After Rahman’s…
NEW DELHI: A special panel may recommend to the govt that status quo should be maintained on the definition of Scheduled Castes, as laid down by the Presidential (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, and not expanded to bring in Dalit converts to Islam and Christianity.The commission of inquiry, headed by former Chief Justice of India KG…
Disha Salian was late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s manager NEW DELHI: Decorated CBI officer Seema Pahuja will supervise the investigation into the Disha Salian case, bringing her expertise in handling sensitive criminal inquiries to this high-profile probe, sources said. The team is set to record statements of all individuals who attended a gathering earlier that…