NEW DELHI: Security has been heightened along the Ambala-Delhi border as farmer prepare to march to national capital on Friday. The march, led by a ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers is scheduled to begin at 1pm from the Shambhu Border.The Ambala district administration has invoked prohibitory orders under ‘Section 163’ of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita…
BENGALURU: A 19-year-old, hurriedly crossing the railway track at Baashettihalli near Doddaballpur to reach a theatre screening ‘Pushpa-2’, died on the spot after a speeding train mowed him down Thursday morning. The deceased is Praveen Tamachalam, a resident of Baashettihalli and from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. An ITI diploma holder, Praveen worked for a private firm…
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been in space for an extended mission, marked six months aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, with two months remaining. The duo launched on June 5 aboard Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule, originally intended for a week-long test flight.Their arrival at the International Space Station occurred the…
Only 6% of women belonging to the lowest wealth quintile, or the poorest, underwent C-section in public hospitals, the study shows NEW DELHI: More women from high-income quintiles are undergoing delivery through caesarean section (Csection), even in govt hospitals, according to a new study.A wealth quintile is a statistical value that divides a population into…
RAIPUR: Two former sarpanchs in insurgency-hit Bijapur have been murdered by Maoists for continuing to work for BJP despite threats from cadres. “Quit BJP or die,” say leaflets left by Maoists on their bodies.The bodies of Suklu Farsa and Sukhram Avalam were found dumped at separate locations on Thursday. Both of them were abducted on…
Deputy CM Eknath Shinde during the swearing-in ceremony MUMBAI: Devendra Fadnavis’s letter to governor CP Radhakrishnan stating he would take oath at 5.30 pm as CM along with two deputy CMs reached Raj Bhavan only at 2.30 pm Thursday, barely three hours before the actual swearing-in, as there was uncertainty until afternoon about whether Eknath…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday allowed easing of stringent anti-pollution curbs under Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) Stage 4 in NCR, and replacing these with Grap-2 measures. However, it said Grap-3 should be imposed immediately if AQI goes above 350 and Grap-4 should kick in if it crosses 400.Grap-4 was imposed in NCR on…
Representative AI image via copilot DHAKA: In yet another sign of its intent to move Bangladesh closer to Islamabad, the interim government is reported to have removed the requirement for Pakistani citizens to obtain security clearance before applying for a visa. This significant decision was communicated, local media reports said, by the Security Services Division…
DHAKA: The Muhammad Yunus-led caretaker government in Bangladesh has instructed the central bank to introduce redesigned banknotes that omit the image of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s founding president and Father of the Nation. According to sources at Bangladesh Bank, the decision finalised in Sept will see the new banknotes released within six months and…
There’s an ancient rule in Korean culture that says women should obey their father before marriage, husband after, and son if they’re widowed. Called ‘rule of 3 obediences’, it has parallels in India and other Asian cultures. Oddly, even after 70 years of breathless development in South Korea, it is considered virtuous.The country is an…
