KOTA: Rajasthan’s Kota, the coaching hub for medical and engineering aspirants that has been in headlines for student suicides in recent years, saw a 38% decline in such cases in 2024 compared to the previous year, with 16 cases documented this year as against 26 in 2023.The district administration attributed the dip in student suicides…
RAIPUR: No network, no roads but hope is being built, brick by brick, in a very remote part of Abujhmarh in Bastar. More used to the crack of gunshots, tribals in Rekavaya village now hear the hum of cement mixers where a school is coming up. The first since Independence.Like Rekavaya, some 300km from Raipur,…
NEW DELHI: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Monday warned that the record-breaking temperatures of 2024 will likely continue next year with the greenhouse gas (GHG) levels growing to record “observed highs, locking in even more heat for the future”.The warning factored in the UK Met office outlook for 2025, suggesting that it is likely…
BATHINDA: A nine-hour shutdown called by farmers’ unions fighting for a legally guaranteed minimum support price mechanism for crops struck Punjab off the transport map Monday, with buses going off the road and 150-odd trains passing through or originating in the state either cancelled or curtailed.Thousands of stranded passengers spent the day at railway stations…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court appointed high-powered committee headed by former judge of Punjab and Haryana HC Nawab Singh will hold further talks with the agitating farmers on Jan 3 and an invitation has been sent to them for a virtual meeting.The court had in Sept constituted the independent and neutral panel to hold talks with…
KOCHI: A campaign in her native Kerala to secure the release of nurse Nimisha Priya from death row in Yemen suffered a setback Monday after President Rashad Muhammed al-Alimi approved her sentence for murder. Nimisha, from Palakkad, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2018 and has been in Yemen’s central…
The US treasury department revealed on Monday that Chinese hackers managed to access several workstations and unclassified documents by breaching a third-party software service provider. The attack occurred earlier this month and is now being investigated as a major cybersecurity incident.The Treasury did not reveal how many workstations were accessed or what documents were stolen,…
SANDESHKHALI: Lies get exposed one day, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asserted Monday at her first Sandeshkhali rally since the unrest there over gang rape allegations before this LS poll, advising the area’s women not to trust “miscreants”.“Stay well, stay together,” she said, specifically reminding women they need not go “anywhere with anyone (to get…
JAIPUR: Shatrughan Shah, 40, vegetable vendor, is running from pillar to post for help after losing his auto rickshaw in the devastating inferno triggered by a collision between an LPG tanker and a truck near Bhankrota on Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Dec 20. Despite suffering burn injuries to his face, Shah’s name does not appear on…
BENGALURU: An anti-terrorism court in Bengaluru Monday convicted Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) India head for training gullible Muslim youths from Bengal and Assam for jehad. It sentenced Jahidul Islam, alias Kausar, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment besides slapping a fine of Rs 57,000.Jahidul, the JMB ‘amir’ of India, along with absconding chief Salauddin Salehin, illegally…
