India rejects Pakistan’s claims on Kashmir, calls Indus Waters Treaty outdated at UNHRC (First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Anupama Singh (Photo: UN)) NEW DELHI: India launched a sharp attack on Pakistan at the 62nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), describing it as a “Frankenstein state”…
MUMBAI: The rupee weakened to a record closing low of 96.53 against the dollar on Tuesday, marking its sixth consecutive session of decline, as sustained high crude oil prices and adverse global cues weighed on the currency. The local unit closed 18 paise lower compared to 96.35 in the previous session, after touching an intraday…
NEW DELHI: CBSE has decided to implement the new three-language rule for Class IX from the 2026–27 session. From July 1, 2026, all Class IX students must study three languages, with “at least two being native Indian languages”, under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework 2023.Students opting for a foreign…
Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, has revealed the two core convictions that drove him to leave OpenAI and build what is now one of its most formidable rivals—scaling laws and safety. In a candid conversation on investor Nikhil Kamath’s podcast WTF Is, Amodei traced his departure back to 2019, when early experiments with…
Based on a complaint by Lionel Messi’s India tour organiser, Satadru Dutta, an FIR was filed on Monday against Bengal’s former sports minister Aroop Biswas, ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar, New Alipore councillor Juin Biswas, and IAS officer Santanu Basu, accusing them of sabotaging the event at Salt Lake Stadium in Dec 2025. Dutta alleged Biswas misused…
Amazon has reportedly not asked the Trump government to refund that US Supreme Court allowed companies to take. Earlier this year, after the Supreme Court struck down Trump tariffs, the federal government set up a method to reimburse those who had paid them. Consumers in a proposed class action, filed in federal court in Seattle…
NEW DELHI: Even after nearly all Indian medical students returned from Iran following the outbreak of war, one 22-year-old youth from Kashmir chose to stay back, saying he could not leave the country “when it is in distress”. Now living alone in a nine-storey hostel in Ahvaz after the last remaining Indian students left, Asif…
NEW DELHI : Every Hindu voter became a Hindu worker in West Bengal, Dattatreya Hosabale of RSS said on Tuesday, framing the recent assembly polls as a “civilisational question” for the Hindutva organisation due to the hurdles and attacks it faced there.“It was a struggle not only by RSS volunteers but by the entire Hindu…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine the validity of the CBSE‘s three-language formula for Class IX students, who now have to choose two native languages.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi sought a comprehensive response from Centre, CBSE and NCERT. The court, however,…
LUCK BY CHANCE: The buffalo will be now ‘cared for’ at the national zoo in Dhaka, after a last-minute intervention by the Bangladesh govt, reportedly following a ‘request’ from the US embassy DHAKA: “Donald Trump” has been spared – the Eid sacrificial buffalo named after the US president – once destined for slaughter on Thursday…