PUNE: Devidas Saudagar won’t ring a bell even in Marathi literary circles, but his novel Usvan (Frayed Stitches) about the trials and tribulations of the tailoring community fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2024 award in Marathi on Saturday.The outpouring of a writer who dropped out of school after Std VII, took up tailoring…
NEW DELHI: In what may change the complexion of both Parliament and opposition politics, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will take the electoral plunge from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which her brother Rahul Gandhi has decided to vacate while retaining Rae Bareli in UP.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made the two announcements to the media on…
NEW DELHI: China is boosting its nuclear arsenal faster than any other country around the globe, and now has triple the number of warheads that India has, while it also deploys some of them on “high operational alert” on ballistic missiles. Pakistan, in turn, maintains its rough parity with India in the number of nuclear…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry will hold talks “at the earliest” with Meitei and Kuki representatives from Manipur as part of a fresh bid to bridge the ethnic divide that has been causing recurrent unrest and clashes between the state’s indigenous communities over the past one year.This was stated by home minister Amit Shah at…
NEW DELHI: Political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to NCERT on Monday objecting to the inclusion of their names in new textbooks after they had requested removal of their names as authors from the revised versions. They warned legal action if these books were not immediately withdrawn.Yadav and Palshikar said they did not…
KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: The IIT-Kharagpur campus was jolted by the news of yet another death after a 21-year-old, third-year biotechnology student was found hanging from the roof of the Sarojini Naidu and Indira Gandhi Hall on Monday morning.Other students saw Devika Pillai’s body hanging from the roof of the two-storey building around 7am and alerted the campus’s…
MUMBAI: SBI has started watching the weather more intently from the current financial year. The country’s largest lender is incorporating climate change risks into its lending framework and has set up a Climate Change Risk Management Committee to enhance governance and resilience to climate-related risks. The climate change panel will provide strategic guidance and oversight…
NEW DELHI: “Bharat” and “India” will be used interchangeably in NCERT textbooks, aligning with the terminology in the country’s Constitution, according to Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).Saklani’s comments are significant following a recommendation from a high-level panel on the social science curriculum to replace “India” with…
BENGALURU: The gig workforce is emerging as one of the levers for enterprises to bridge the tech talent demand-supply gap. Gig workers get paid from $5 per hour for basic work, while mid-level prompt engineers, prompt engineering specialists, and senior AI engineers can make from $15 to $400 per hour, respectively, depending on the complexity…
AHMEDABAD: Even as the uproar over the alleged irregularities in NEET for admissions to MBBS courses continues, a shocking case of medical education fraud has come from Mehsana in north Gujarat.A homeopath paid Rs 16.32 lakh for admission to an MBBS course from a UP university and received his degree and certificates within a month…
