Guru Purnima is one of the most important festivals for all Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists. This festival falls on the full moon day of the Ashadha month. This day is a day where one should celebrate the teachers and mentors who guide us to a path of righteousness. While we go about our lives, our…
NEW DELHI: Skewed distribution of rainfall in June-July saw nine states, including Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Odisha and Bihar, facing a significant rain deficit in the range of 20-49% whereas six states, including four in the south peninsula, reported excess to large excess of cumulative rainfall during June 1-July 20.State-wise, Jharkhand reported the highest…
NEW DELHI: When Raman Shah, a 50-year-old Mumbai businessman, mustered the courage to come out of the closet and walk out of a long-term marriage, he was forced to move to another country. Homosexuality was still a crime. As soon as the Supreme Court struck down Section 377, he moved back to India and got…
NEW DELHI: In the midst of the row over trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar allegedly misusing the disability quota, a case has surfaced of a candidate with muscular dystrophy being denied any service despite having cleared the civil services four times.Kartik Kansal, who studied mechanical engineering in IIT Roorkee, is currently a scientist in Isro,…
Researchers from several universities, including Oxford, have used mortality data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 to estimate that there were almost 12 lakh excess deaths in 2020, eight times the official number of Covid-19 deaths in India that year. The health ministry has dismissed the estimate as “gross and misleading” and criticised the…
NEW DELHI: Airport systems across India were restored at 3am Saturday after a 17-hour global outage caused by a software fault in computers running MS Windows. However, a large backlog of cancelled and delayed flights, along with undelivered baggage, means full normalisation may take a couple of days.“Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is…
NEW DELHI: UPSC chairman Manoj Soni has tendered his resignation barely a year into his six-year tenure, citing “personal reasons”. The news of his resignation, believed to have been submitted to the President some time back, comes amid the controversy over IAS probationer Puja Khedkar‘s selection to the civil services based on forged identity, which…
LUCKNOW: UP CM Yogi Adityanath is likely to meet PM Narendra Modi and BJP brass when he is in New Delhi on July 27 for the Niti Aayog governing council meeting.Highly placed sources in govt confirmed the CM would be meeting the PM, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda. These proposed…
PUNE: NCP chief Ajit Pawar snubbed NCP(SCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday, when the latter raised some queries at a meeting of Pune District Planning Development Committee (DPDC), saying invited members were not eligible to ask questions.The uncle and nephew were seen together at an event after a long gap. Being Pune’s guardian minister, Ajit…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand govt has submitted an application to recall and modify an order to eliminate a segment based on the suggested clauses of the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code (UCC) from an HC directive. This directive concerned the protection of an interfaith couple in a live-in relationship in Dehradun. A bench led by Justice Manoj Kumar…
