NEW DELHI: India’s education landscape in 2024 showed mixed progress in key areas such as school attendance, digital literacy, and the reduction in underage enrolment, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024. While overall school attendance had improved marginally, digital literacy among students remains uneven, and there was a noteworthy decline in…
FILE – Syria’s de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, walks in the presidential palace ahead of his meeting with Walid Ellafi, Libyan minister of state for communication and political affairs, in Damascus, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy, File) DAMASCUS: The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month…
US officials are looking at the national security implications of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, while President Donald Trump’s crypto czar said it was possible that intellectual property theft could have been at play.White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks was asked on…
NEW DELHI: Terming the practice of instant divorce through triple talaq as indefensible after a five-judge bench in 2017 declared it unconstitutional, Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would examine the validity of the post-judgment legislation providing for up to three-year jail term for Muslim men persisting with the practice of abruptly ending their marriages…
NEW DELHI: Paving the way for major changes in the management of waqf properties, the Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday adopted its report by a 15-11 majority vote. The report will be submitted along with the redrafted legislation to Lok Sabha speaker on Thursday. The bill is likely to be…
NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over “deteriorating standard” of public prosecutors, Supreme Court Wednesday said state govts should refrain from appointing them solely based on political considerations.SC said that the office of a public prosecutor is a public office, and only capable and competent lawyers with strong reputation and prestige should be appointed to it. Noting…
NEW DELHI: Observing that there is no concept of state domicile in the Constitution, which only recognises domicile of India, Supreme Court on Wednesday said domicile-based reservation in specialised and higher studies like postgraduate (PG) medical courses is not permissible and quota for residents of states could be extended to a certain degree in undergraduate…
NEW DELHI: The city’s air quality worsened to ‘very poor’ on Wednesday morning because of mist, smog and low wind speed, prompting CAQM to impose Grap-3 restrictions with immediate effect, reports Kushagra Dixit. Grap-3 bans construction activities and plying of BS-3 diesel and BS-4 petrol cars across Delhi-NCR.The air quality index (AQI), on a scale…
NEW DELHI: Congress and other opposition parties slammed the Centre and UP govt for mismanagement of surging crowds at the Maha Kumbh, with Rahul Gandhi accusing the administration of being busy handling VIP movement instead of focussing on common devotees. Stating “VIP culture” should be reined in, he urged govt to make better arrangements to…
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah Wednesday expressed condolences over the loss of lives in the stampede at Maha Kumbh.Before starting his speech at a poll rally in Delhi’s Ghonda area, Modi said: “We lost some good souls in the tragedy at Maha Kumbh, and some people also got injured….
