MUMBAI: The first biopic on Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898) has been released by an OTT platform internationally, but national broadcaster Doordarshan has refused to telecast/stream it on Prasar Bharati (PB) OTT. The film ‘Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: The Messiah’ was unveiled by AMU vice-chancellor Naima Khatoon with much fanfare…
NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on disaster risk reduction headed by home minister Amit Shah has approved Rs 1,555 crore of additional central assistance to five states affected by floods, landslides and cyclonic storm during 2024.Andhra Pradesh is the major recipient with Rs 608 crore approved for it towards disaster mitigation and response. The central…
LUCKNOW: Days after NGT flagged the high faecal coliform levels in the Ganga and Yamuna rivers in Prayagraj during the ongoing Maha Kumbh, UP CM Yogi Adityanath asserted in the assembly on Wednesday that the water at the Sangam was fit for both “snan” (bathing) and “aachman” (ritual drinking).Replying to a discussion on the Maha…
After threatening penal action against medical colleges that did not pay stipend to MBBS interns or doctors doing post graduate training, National Medical Commission (NMC), has done an about-turn saying that it is up to state authorities to take action. However, the Maintenance of Standards of Medical Education Regulations 2023 gazetted in Sept 2023, give…
MYSURU: Lokayukta Police gave a clean chit Wednesday to Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, his wife Parvathi and two other co-accused in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) land-swap case, saying the charges levelled by petitioner Snehamayi Krishna against them “could not be substantiated”.However, Siddaramaiah, for whom the case posed a challenge to his pre-eminence within the…
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the recent stampede at New Delhi railway station that led to 18 deaths, Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Indian Railways to address the sale of excess tickets beyond the number of passengers that can be accommodated in a coach.“If you fix the number of passengers to be…
TIRUPUR: A 27-year-old woman from Odisha was gang-raped at knifepoint in front of her husband here on Monday by three guest workers from Bihar. The Tirupur North all-woman police arrested the trio on Tuesday night.According to an investigation officer, the woman, along with her husband and three-year-old child, visited Tirupur on Monday (February 17) in…
NEW DELHI: Catching heavyweights and hopefuls in the party off-guard, BJP Wednesday chose a first-time MLA from Shalimar Bagh, Rekha Gupta, as Delhi chief minister.The fourth woman to get the top job in Delhi after Sushma Swaraj (BJP), Sheila Dikshit (Congress) and Atishi (AAP), Gupta, 50, will steer BJP’s govt in the city, 27 years…
NEW DELHI: Catching heavyweights and hopefuls in the party off-guard, BJP Wednesday chose a first-time MLA from Shalimar Bagh, Rekha Gupta, as Delhi chief minister.The fourth woman to get the top job in Delhi after Sushma Swaraj (BJP), Sheila Dikshit (Congress) and Atishi (AAP), Gupta, 50, will steer BJP’s govt in the city, 27 years…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar will participate in the G20 meeting of foreign ministers in Johannesburg on Feb 20-21, said govt on Wednesday. Jaishankar’s US counterpart Marco Rubio will skip the event, but China’s Wang Yi and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov will attend the meeting.While Jaishankar is likely to informally meet Wang and Lavrov,…
