Unauthorised pamphlet carrying the slogan ‘Polio Free Pakistan’ in Jammu triggers probe. Photo credit: PTI The Jammu and Kashmir health department has sought an urgent explanation from a Block medical officer (BMO) in Rajouri after an allegedly unauthorised pamphlet carrying the slogan ‘Polio Free Pakistan’ surfaced on social media.The Rajouri chief medical officer (CMO) issued…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) “did not act outside its statutory powers” while conducting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), ruling that the exercise could not be termed “ultra vires merely because it differs from the ordinary revision process”.“SIR fulfils proportionality and are not manifestely execessive….
A federal court has now sentenced Gujarat native Kavankumar Patel to 10 years in prison for his role in the case. AHMEDABAD: A routine police call over a theft complaint at a Nebraska hotel eventually last year exposed an alleged trafficking racket involving minors, hotel employees, and multiple Gujarati-origin hotel operators in the US. A…
An ex-Meta employee is celebrating the strike down of the Trump administration’s increased H-1B visa fee. Zach Wilson, a former data engineer at the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company took to X to honour the announcement.He shared that for the past 6 months, when his Indian students asked “How do I get a data engineering job in…
President Donald Trump has yet to approve a proposed agreement with Iran following a meeting in the White House Situation Room, with a White House official saying any deal must satisfy the US president’s conditions.Trump spent about two hours in the White House Situation Room on Friday reviewing a potential framework aimed at ending the…
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: To prevent paper leak in NEET-UG, Centre is actively exploring the use of IAF aircraft for transporting question papers for the June 21 retest, as part of a wider “whole-of-govt” security strategy involving the home ministry, central agencies and state police networks, reports Manash Gohain.The proposal was discussed…
NEW DELHI: In what could further strain the already tense Congress-CPM equation, ED has intensified its probe into the money laundering allegations against the daughter of former Marxist CM of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan.Boosted by a Kerala high court order that money laundering investigations against Vijayan’s daughter Veena are not dependent upon registration of a criminal…
NEW DELHI: Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday alleged that Nitish Kumar was stepping down as Bihar Chief Minister under “pressure” from within his own party, claiming some colleagues had been “intimidated or allured” by ally BJP.The remarks came a day after Kumar was sworn in as a Rajya Sabha MP and as his belongings were being…
GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov has published a public apology after two major incidents left thousands of repositories and pull requests in broken states. The platform’s April uptime has dropped below 85 percent—far below its 99.9% SLA—driven by a sharp surge in AI agent workflows demanding 30 times current infrastructure capacity. Ghostty developer Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub’s…
NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma added another remarkable chapter to his glittering career on Saturday, becoming only the second Indian opener after Virender Sehwag to score 16,000 international runs across formats.The landmark came during the first ODI against Afghanistan in Dharamsala, with the veteran batter needing just six runs to enter the exclusive club. Rohit reached…