NEW DELHI: Thirteen shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday, officials said.The blaze erupted around 5 am in Bufliaz Central Market along the Mughal Road, rapidly spreading through a row of mostly wooden and tin-roofed shops, PTI reported.Local residents, assisted by Army…
SINGAPORE: The United States, Britain and Australia are working together to develop unmanned undersea vehicles as part of their trilateral Aukus defence pact, US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth told reporters on Saturday.Aukus said in a joint statement that delivery of the vehicles will start in 2027.The programme will improve the three nations’ reconnaissance and…
MUMBAI: RBI’s new disclosure norms will put unlisted banks at par with listed peers, standardise reporting formats and units, and make global comparisons of Indian lenders much easier by mandating uniform, template-driven disclosures.The new norms prescribe globally aligned reporting architecture that mirrors Basel standards, addressing the third of the three pillars of the globally accepted…
MUMBAI: Raymond, which has shed its apparel and real estate businesses through a series of demergers, is in talks to acquire Deharde, a German precision engineering company that supplies aerostructures to Airbus and others, people familiar with the matter said.If completed, the deal would mark Raymond’s first overseas acquisition since its 2024 restructuring and would…
Questions are mounting over whether Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is directly involved in Tehran’s ongoing negotiations with the United States, according to a report by Iran International, which cited a source close to the talks.The report said doubts have emerged over whether parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Iran’s negotiating team are fully…
Superworms, the larvae of Zophobas morio, are often used as animal feed Scientists tested pet-store ‘superworms’ on animal specimens and found the beetle larvae can clean skeletons for museums without harsh chemicals or bone damage.A common insect larva found in local pet shops is offering museums a safe, cheap, and gentle way to clean animal…
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday chargesheeted Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed for plotting and masterminding the April 2025 Pahalgam attack, in which 25 tourists were killed by three Pakistani terrorists in front of their families. One J&K resident was also shot dead.NIA said the second chargesheet has details of the role…
A fight between a few children in a Gurgaon housing society has sparked a much bigger conversation online. And it’s not about bad behaviour, but about the values children pick up long before they fully understand them. The incident surfaced after a Gurgaon resident posted a video recalling an incident involving his cousin and a…
NEW DELHI: Put on the back foot by a Supreme Court intervention, NCERT on Tuesday has released the revised Part 2 of its Class 8 Social Science textbook with the controversial chapter on judiciary stripped of its earlier critical framing and recast as a more conventional civics lesson on justice, constitutional remedies, courts, tribunals and…
Sanjeev Mukhiya remained in judicial custody even after his bail in the CBI case. (@IndianGems_/X) NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday said it found no evidence linking alleged paper leak kingpin Sanjeev Kumar alias Sanjeev Mukhiya to the theft or distribution of the NEET-UG 2024 question paper, despite his initial inclusion…