She received Rs 18.34 lakh as a medical student stipend and paid no tax, but Income Tax Department treated it as salary and sent notice; why ITAT Delhi ruled it was tax-free

The stipend was received while the taxpayer was pursuing MS (General Surgery) and was connected with her postgraduate education. Is the stipend you receive as part of your scholarships taxable? A postgraduate medical student received a stipend of Rs 18.34 lakh from Aligarh Muslim University during her PG Medical course and compulsory residency training. She…

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‘They don’t need just sympathy, but empowerment’: Dhami celebrates birthday with children with disabilities | India News

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami celebrates his birthday with the children of the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities, in Dehradun on Wednesday. (@ukcmo X/ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami celebrated his birthday on Wednesday with children with disabilities at the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons…

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Australian scientists have created a cyborg cockroach that could locate victims and save lives in disaster zones

Small robots and drones have come far from their original aims of creation. From hospitality service to spiritual guidance and even disaster response, they are being deployed in numerous fields. Recently, numerous locations across the world have suffered through major disasters, including earthquakes, and victims are still being searched for in rescue operations that have…

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A tiny fish was last recorded by scientists in 1985; 40 years later, an Indigenous fisherwoman caught the ‘lost’ species in Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River

Representative image of Pipefish from Canva A small freshwater fish that had not been confirmed by scientists since 1985 has been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River. The spinach pipefish, a poorly understood species related to seahorses and seadragons, was found during a research expedition that relied heavily on local communities and fisherfolk. According…

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A struggling father spent his own money on a stranger’s birthday card; the gesture later raised more than $200,000 for his family | World News

In April 2026, content creator Zachery Dereniowski, known online as MDMotivator, sat outside a grocery store in Austin, Texas, with a birthday cake and a blindfold, waiting to see who would stop for a stranger. Person after person walked past until a man named Elvin stopped to check on him. Elvin, a father and grandfather…

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In 2008, scientists removed invasive rats from Alaska’s Hawadax Island; 11 years later, seabirds returned and the kelp ecosystem recovered | World News

Alaska’s Hawadax Island, once known as Rat Island, offers one of conservation’s clearest success stories. Invasive Norway rats, accidentally introduced by 18th-century shipwrecks and wartime shipping traffic, wiped out nesting seabirds and unravelled the island’s rocky intertidal food web for two centuries. In 2008, scientists carried out a full eradication, removing every rat from the…

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