KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: The IIT-Kharagpur campus was jolted by the news of yet another death after a 21-year-old, third-year biotechnology student was found hanging from the roof of the Sarojini Naidu and Indira Gandhi Hall on Monday morning.Other students saw Devika Pillai’s body hanging from the roof of the two-storey building around 7am and alerted the campus’s…
MUMBAI: SBI has started watching the weather more intently from the current financial year. The country’s largest lender is incorporating climate change risks into its lending framework and has set up a Climate Change Risk Management Committee to enhance governance and resilience to climate-related risks. The climate change panel will provide strategic guidance and oversight…
NEW DELHI: “Bharat” and “India” will be used interchangeably in NCERT textbooks, aligning with the terminology in the country’s Constitution, according to Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).Saklani’s comments are significant following a recommendation from a high-level panel on the social science curriculum to replace “India” with…
BENGALURU: The gig workforce is emerging as one of the levers for enterprises to bridge the tech talent demand-supply gap. Gig workers get paid from $5 per hour for basic work, while mid-level prompt engineers, prompt engineering specialists, and senior AI engineers can make from $15 to $400 per hour, respectively, depending on the complexity…
AHMEDABAD: Even as the uproar over the alleged irregularities in NEET for admissions to MBBS courses continues, a shocking case of medical education fraud has come from Mehsana in north Gujarat.A homeopath paid Rs 16.32 lakh for admission to an MBBS course from a UP university and received his degree and certificates within a month…
NEW DELHI: Passenger woes at Air India show no signs of ebbing. A person flying Bengaluru-San Francisco (AI 175) on June 9 reportedly found a metal blade in his meal, which he was able to spit out in time before it could cause any harm. In the past few weeks, AI – where change is…
NEW DELHI: The arrival of US NSA Jake Sullivan in India for a review of the initiative on critical and emerging technology (iCET) coincided with an announced by the Czech government that Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who has been indicted by American authorities for his involvement in the Gurpatwant Pannun foiled murder plot, was handed…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has granted bail for 16 days to a 23-year-old man arrested under Pocso Act, allowing him to marry an 18-year-old girl he has been accused of raping and with whom he fathered a child when she was a minor.Treating it as a “peculiar” case, Justice M Nagaprasanna has directed authorities to release…
NEW DELHI: After new members’ oath-taking is completed on the first two days of Lok Sabha session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to propose the name of the new Lok Sabha Speaker on June 25 even as the BJP-led NDA, which has the majority, has still not announced its candidate’s name.The first session of…
JAMMU: The Union home ministry has handed over the investigation of the June 9 Reasi bus terror attack to the National Investigation Agency, official sources said on Monday. The attack took place near the Teryath-Pouni axis and resulted in the deaths of nine pilgrims and injuries to 41 others.“The decision to hand over the probe…
