COP29 (Picture credit: AP) An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, marking the country’s first participation since Taliban took control in 2021. The summit will be held from November 11-22.Although no country has formally recognized the Taliban government, Azerbaijan extended an invitation to the delegation. While the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has disapproved of HC interim orders to keep a MBBS seat vacant in a medical college for a candidate alleging unfair denial of admission and said such a direction can be passed only in exceptional circumstances when a candidate presents a strong prima facie case.This order was passed by a…
KANPUR: A minor student from Fatehpur who moved here to prepare for her medical entrance exam NEET at a prominent coaching institute was allegedly held hostage for over six months and raped by two of its teachers. The student alleged in her complaint that a teacher recorded the assault and blackmailed her with threats of…
MUMBAI: In the charged poll season, candidates are going all out on social media to ensure messages make a lasting impression. Timelines are buzzing as incumbents and new contenders work overtime to amplify their reach, using hashtags to stand out.From assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, who is using #PaanchSaalBemisaal to highlight his work in Colaba since…
BHOPAL: BJP MP from MP’s Rewa constituency, 68-year-old Janardan Mishra, on Saturday gave a bizarre speech on love, marriage and mobile phones in the presence of Governor Mangubhai Patel.“I was thinking that people have started getting married online. Some 50-60 years later, when babies are born online, will these babies be made of steel or…
BHOPAL: Robbers hacked off both legs of a 75-year-old woman in MP’s Sehore district to steal her silver anklets and threw her in a drain. She bled to death through the night.The victim, Motan Bai, was attacked in Guradia Rupchand village in Ashta region, 90km from Bhopal, on Friday evening. Her family grew alarmed when…
GUWAHATI: Within 48 hours after a tribal woman, a mother of three, was immolated by armed miscreants in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Thursday night, another woman was gunned down by suspected hill-based militants in Bishnupur district on Saturday.The woman was working with other farmers, while harvesting paddy, when suspected militants opened fire from the hill…
In a first-of-its-kind campaign, social media lit up with cinematic AI-powered election ads from Maharashtra’s deputy CM Ajit Pawar that racked up thousands of views and plenty of chatter.In one video, a young girl in a village takes a break from household chores under a tree when a newspaper lands on her lap with a…
RAIPUR: The suspected poisoning of a tiger in Guru Ghasidas National Park in Chhattisgarh on Friday – the second tiger death here in two years — has rung the alarm bells at a time when there is controversy over the delay in designating the park as a tiger reserve.The demise is also mired in conflicting…
JAMSHEDPUR: On the second day of his campaign blitzkrieg in Jharkhand, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that inflation and unemployment had reached an all-time high under PM Narendra Modi-led NDA govt, and singled out “politics of hate, violence, and anger” as the reasons behind what he alleged was a crashing economy.Addressing election rallies in Jamshedpur…
