Reprising the old classic ‘bees saal baad’, Congress is gearing up to contest its lowest tally of seats ever in Lok Sabha elections. Announcing the fight plan on Monday, the grand old party drew parallels with 2004, when it had cut down on poll contests in favour of allies and gone on to remove the…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sarika A K, a 23-year-old from Keezhariyur in Kozhikode, made history by becoming the first person from Kerala with cerebral palsy to clear UPSC civil services examinations. Despite being confined to a wheelchair and having limited mobility in her left hand, Sarika secured 922nd rank.Speaking to TOI, she said it’s a dream come true…
LUCKNOW: Aditya Srivastava had to sacrifice his passion for cricket and give up a high-paying job, before his years of hard work paid off, securing him the top rank in UPSC civil services examinations in his third attempt.Talking exclusively to TOI from Hyderabad, Aditya, an electrical engineering graduate from IIT-Kanpur, exclaimed it was “unbelievable” for…
NEW DELHI: Making India’s intention clear to join global efforts to remove debris from space, Isro chairman S Somanath on Tuesday announced that the country aims to achieve debris-free space missions by 2030.Addressing the 42nd Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) annual meet in Bengaluru, Somanath said Isro has a clearly laid-out plan for space…
NEW DELHI: Aditya Srivastava from Lucknow, who is an IIT Kanpur alumnus and currently undergoing training for the IPS, aced the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2023, even as NIT Rourkela graduate Animesh Pradhan from Talcher cleared the elite exam in his first attempt, barely a month after his mother had succumbed to cancer.There are two…
Pushed to the wall by the Supreme Court for violating its order, Baba Ramdev and his disciple Balkrishna on Tuesday admitted to giving misleading advertisements about Patanjali products and sought to apologise to the court with folded hands.At the outset of the hearing, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said it wanted…
PATNA/GAYA: In a strong affirmation of the Constitution’s primacy amid claims by the opposition that BJP intends to “scrap” it if voted back to office, PM Narendra Modi said Tuesday that he was indebted to “Ambedkar’s samvidhan” for preserving the country’s diversity, facilitating equitable economic growth and enabling someone like him to “rise from humble…
NEW DELHI: Making public its report card on enforcement of the model code of conduct in the first month of polls, Election Commission on Tuesday said it had decided against acting on opposition parties’ pleas for stopping the alleged “misuse” of central agencies like CBI, ED and NIA to target their leadership, as it did…
GADCHIROLI: Splinters flew past Vikas Kumre, of Gardewara village, as multiple IEDs went off at noon along a booby-trapped stretch, just 6km off the Maoist headquarters of Abujmarh. This was during 2019 LS polls.Fast forward to 2024. Kumre considers himself lucky to be alive and witness the bustling electoral process at one of the 11…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court has upheld the compulsory retirement rule for non-performing or under-performing district judges at the age of 50, with the observation, “A member of the judicial service must possess the highest standards of rectitude, honesty and integrity.”Some of the judges of district court had challenged the rule in 2016, contending that it…
