MEERUT: A court in UP’s Bulandshahr has pulled up police for failing to file a chargesheet in a 26-year-old murder case despite arresting the accused, recovering the alleged murder weapon and even filing a separate chargesheet against him in an arms Act case.The lapse, which allowed the accused to remain a free man for over…
NEW DELHI: With the threat from hostile drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in both conventional and irregular warfare continuing to expand exponentially, armed forces are stepping up induction of a wide array of anti-drone systems but underline the urgent need for more advanced ones. Army this week floated the tender for procurement of nine…
AMRITSAR: An American aircraft carrying 116 illegal Indian immigrants deported from the US was delayed and arrived at Amritsar’s international airport a little past 11.30pm Saturday, the second such flight after a US military C-17 plane had brought back 104 deportees to the same airport on February 5.At a press conference earlier Saturday, Punjab chief…
NEW DELHI: “We didn’t stop teaching arithmetic just because we got calculators. We need to teach students what the machines can’t do and how to use machines (more efficiently).” That’s how the world’s leading universities are coping with AI, according to Michael Spence, University College London (UCL) president & provost. Speaking at the ET Now…
NEW DELHI: Having heralded one of the fastest rollouts of 5G telephony in the world, India will now take the lead in the development of next-gen 6G technology, with a target of contributing 10% to worldwide patents, said communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia here on Saturday.Speaking at the ET Now Global Business Summit, Scindia said the…
NEW DELHI: Modi government has given priority to industry and trade as it realises business plays a key role in achieving the goal of India becoming a developed nation by 2047, said labour and employment minister Mansukh Mandaviya. The taxes they pay are used for funding welfare policies that benefit everyone, especially the poor, he…
Vineet Jain, MD, The Times Group, with PM Modi at the summit NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Centre would soon set up a deregulation commission to ease the compliance burden on society and minimise govt interference.“We have ended hundreds of compliances, and now with Jan Vishwas 2.0, we are further reducing…
NEW DELHI: BJP became the single largest party in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi with three AAP councillors switching their allegiance to the party on Saturday, opening up the possibility of a triple engine government in Delhi.BJP, which is also in office at the Centre, had won the assembly polls on February 8, securing 48…
PRAYAGRAJ/RAIPUR/AGRA/VADODARA: At least 16 Maha Kumbh pilgrims lost their lives and 28 others sustained injuries in four separate road accidents in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, with 10 devotees from Korba in Chhattisgarh dying when their SUV crashed into a private bus on Prayagraj-Mirzapur highway. The casualties in the latest mishaps reported since Friday…
Yogi Adityanath (File photo) VARANASI: As lakhs of pilgrims from Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj continued to reach Varanasi, district authorities extended restrictions while CM Yogi Adityanath conducted an aerial survey of the congested city roads Saturday afternoon to assess the situation.Ganga aarti at the ghats were suspended until Feb 26. Classes up to 8 remained…
