NEW DELHI: While India meteorological department (IMD) is largely known for providing weather alerts and warnings in the public interest, benefiting various sectors and the common people, the country’s national weather forecaster has now emerged as a key govt scientific agency generating revenue from its range of services.Becoming the biggest money earner of the ministry…
Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the state department asking them to self-deport owing to alleged campus activism. Immigration attorneys contacted by TOI affirmed this development and added that a few Indian students may also be at the receiving end of such emails — even for something as innocuous…
NEW DELHI: In a significant diplomatic gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended a hand of friendship to Myanmar’s military junta govt by dispatching an 80-member team from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for search-and-rescue operations in the earthquake-affected regions of the neighbouring country.Code named ‘Operation Brahma’, India on Saturday dispatched the NDRF contingent to…
Plane crashes into Minnesota home, engulfing house in flames (Pic credit: X) A plane crashed into a house in Minnesota’s Brooklyn Park on Saturday afternoon, sparking a massive fire that quickly consumed the residence.Dramatic footage shared on social media shows flames engulfing the home as thick smoke billows into the sky. Fire crews rushed to…
JAIPUR: Police on Saturday arrested a restaurant owner for damaging the idol of the Veer Tejaji temple in Sanganer in an intoxicated state. The 34-year-old accused, identified as Siddharth Singh, owns a restaurant called Tamas Cafe in Raja Park. Singh claimed he was depressed after his restaurant shut down due to financial troubles. According to…
NEW DELHI: Anuj Kannaujia, a shooter from Mukhtar Ansari’s gang, was killed in a police encounter on Saturday in Jamshedpur. The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and Jharkhand Police carried out the joint operation after tracking him for five years. He had a bounty of Rs 2.5 lakh on his head.According to ADG UP…
Mumbai: Actress Amrita Arora Ladakh, deposing as the third witness in the assault case against actor Saif Ali Khan, her husband Shakeel Ladak, and Bilal Amrohi, told a magistrate’s court on Saturday said she saw Saif Ali Khan being punched and hit by the same man who barged into their private enclosure at a Colaba…
LONDON: An Indian librarian working at Cambridge university’s Trinity College has lost an employment tribunal case in which she was suing the college for race discrimination after not being allowed to take an entire academic term off to go to India.Dr Havovi Anklesaria, who has worked in the library of Trinity College since 1994, wanted…
Chennai: Madras High Court has categorically held that the UGC regulations on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers and other academic staff in universities and colleges will not apply to minority institutions. This includes measures for maintenance of standards in higher education and guidelines on the selection procedure through the constitution of a selection committee,…
Gujarat Titans players celebrate the fall of Mumbai Indians wicket in Ahmedabad. (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans‘ top-order batters delivered a blistering start, setting up a 36-run victory over Mumbai Indians in their IPL 2025 encounter at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, on Saturday. This win marked GT’s first points of the season,…
