NEW DELHI: After a 15-year gap, India has reclaimed its position as the leading source of international students in the United States for the 2023-24 academic year, surpassing China. According to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange 2024 report released on Monday, India registered a 23% year-over-year increase, sending over 3.3 lakh students…
New Delhi: With air pollution in Delhi reaching life-threatening ‘severe plus’ levels, Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi and NCR states – UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab – to strictly enforce stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) and immediately take a call on measures such as closing schools for all classes, allowing…
NEW DELHI: Backing Brazil’s initiative for a ‘Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty’ at the G20 summit in Rio, PM Modi underscored India’s concerns for the developing world as he said that countries of the Global South are most adversely impacted by the food, fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by conflicts.Speaking at the session titled…
NEW DELHI: Anmol Bishnoi, younger brother of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, is learnt to have been detained in Sacramento, US, early on Sunday. The FBI is learnt to be in the process of verifying his identity, possibly through a voice sample or a DNA match, sources said.US agency officials, who earlier this month confirmed his presence…
LUCKNOW: The first human flight was not achieved by Wright brothers, but by Vedic sage Bharadwaj who built and flew an airplane for 1km in Bombay’s Chowpatty. Pushpak Viman from Ramayana was an advanced invention that dated back 5,000 years; and Kumbhakarna was a “technocrat” who created secret weapons.UP governor Anandiben Patel on Monday highlighted…
NEW DELHI: Campaigning came to a halt on Monday for high-stakes assembly polls in Maharashtra and the second phase in Jharkhand on November 20, the two states being more than just electoral battles for BJP and Congress, leaders of their respective alliances, with results poised to shape their political narrative and future trajectory. The match-up…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission has granted the BJP and Congress an additional week to submit their respective comments on complaints filed against one another relating to statements made by their leaders allegedly in violation of the poll code and other laws.The extension of the original November 18, 1 pm, deadline comes as per requests received…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday criticised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, accusing him and his family of being fixated on the concept of a “tijori,” which they equated with a safe, in contrast to how the PM uses “safe” in his slogan “Ek Hain Toh Safe Hain.”“The press conference conducted by Congress leader and Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The value of poll-related seizures in Maharashtra and Jharkhand as well in the ongoing bypolls have breached the Rs 1,000-crore mark this time.The Election Commission on Monday shared that the combined seizures in Maharashtra and Jharkhand – at Rs 858 crore – were valued at almost seven times the seizures made during the…
NAGPUR: Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh suffered serious head wounded Monday after his vehicle was attacked with stones and boulders on Katol-Jalalkheda road while returning from a campaign in Narkhed for his son Salil Deshmukh, who is contesting the assembly elections on an NCP (Sharad Pawar) ticket.Deshmukh was rushed to a local hospital in…
