DEHRADUN: Rescue efforts continued in full swing along the landslide and flash flood-hit Kedarnath route, with 1,835 people moved to safer locations on Saturday. The figure includes those rescued via trekking routes or airlifted from various places.Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami told TOI that 43 pilgrims were airlifted from Kedarnath, while an additional 495 were…
NEW DELHI: While it is true that some sub-castes within scheduled castes and some tribes within scheduled tribes miss out on the benefits of reservation, a significant part of SC/ST quotas in government jobs goes unfilled every year, raising the question of whether the ‘dominant’ sub-castes and tribes are really keeping the more deprived ones…
Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets into northern Israel, targeting the town of Beit Hillel. The militant group, which is backed by Iran, stated that this attack was the most recent in a string of assaults carried out in solidarity with the Palestinian people.According to Hezbollah, the rocket…
GUWAHATI: Hmar Inpui, the top association representing Hmar tribe of Kuki-Chin-Zo ethnic group, declared Saturday a peace agreement brokered two day ago between Meiteis and tribal group in Manipur‘s Jiribam as “null and void”, saying it was signed “without our prior, informed consent”.Jiribam has a multi-ethnic demography and remained untouched until this summer by the…
Friendship Day is a special occasion that celebrates the bond of friendship. It is a day to honour the friends who stand by us, support us, and make our lives more joyful. As we are celebrating Friendship Day 2024 on the 4th of August, here is all we need to know about the origins of…
US Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, admitted on Saturday to cheating on his first wife, following a bombshell report alleging he once got the family nanny pregnant.According to The Daily Mail, the second gentleman had an affair with a blonde nanny, Najen Naylor, who taught at the private school attended by Emhoff’s two…
PUDUCHERRY: First-year MBBS examinations of Pondicherry University, scheduled to begin on Friday, have been postponed after the question paper was leaked. The revised schedule is yet to be announced. More than a dozen government and private medical colleges in Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands are affiliated to the university.Students reached examination halls in their…
RAIPUR: “Being small does not make a child less of a human being than a grown-up, and corporal punishment causes incalculable harm to a child,” Chhattisgarh HC said, dismissing a teacher’s plea to quash a chargesheet against her after a Class VI girl died by suicide.“It is cruel to subject a child to physical violence…
MUMBAI/PUNE/NAGPUR: Election heat in Maharashtra went up a notch on Saturday with former cop Sachin Waze revealing that he had named another minister from the MVA govt – Jayant Patil – in his purported missive to deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on the orchestra bars extortion case involving former home minister Anil Deshmukh. The revelations by…
NEW DELHI: Foreigners account for nearly one in every 10 persons undergoing organ transplant in India, govt data shows. In 2023, data shared by National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation reveals, India recorded 18,378 organ transplants with 42 recipients getting more than one organ. So, there were a total 18,336 organ recipients in the country…
