NEW DELHI: Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday responded to leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi a day after the Congress leader went all guns blazing at the Modi government in Lok Sabha during the discussion on Union Budget 2.0.Gandhi on Monday had accused the NDA government of spreading a ‘chakravyuh’ with everybody trapped in it,…
NEW DELHI: A kanwariya on Monday attempted to offer ‘Gangajal‘ at Taj Mahal claiming that ‘Lord Shiv‘ came in her dreams and asked her to do so. The woman was, however, stopped by the monument authorities.“I came to Tejo Mahalaya to offer the ‘Gangajal’. Lord Shiv called me in my dreams and I brought kanwar…
NEW DLEHI: Massive landslides have struck various hilly areas near Meppadi in Wayanad district, Kerala, early on Tuesday, causing concerns that hundreds may be trapped. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has deployed Fireforce and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams to the affected areas, with an additional NDRF team on its way to…
NEW DELHI: Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed near Rajkharsawan railway station in Jharkhand early Monday morning after colliding with a goods train. The incident occurred around 3:45 am in the Seraikela-Kharsawan district, just 7 km from Rajkharsawan station, under the jurisdiction of the Chakradharpur railway division of South Eastern Railways. In an initial statement, the Jharkhand government…
On August 1, IIT-Tirupati welcomed new students including Bonila Aryan Roshan from Telangana’s Siddipet district. Despite securing admission in chemical engineering with a JEE rank of 2406 (SC category), Roshan faces financial uncertainties. Like several marginalized students, he struggles to cover costs beyond tuition fees, highlighting a significant issue in higher education access for underprivileged…
NEW DELHI: Even as the world grapples with the challenge of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), instances of which have been reported sporadically from countries using the oral polio vaccine, including India, a case has been reported from Kerala where the VDPV was transmitted from an immune-deficient child to his healthy father.The discovery was made during an…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court on Monday set aside the conviction and four-year sentence awarded to Ghazipur SP MP Afzal Ansari in a Gangsters’ Act case linked to the murder of a BJP MLA, Krishnanand Rai, in 2005. Afzal’s late brother Mukhtar had been sentenced to 10 years in the same case lodged in 2007, reports…
DEHRADUN: Paramjeet Singh Bisht, 23, resident of little-known Khalla village near Gopeshwar town of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, will represent the country in the men’s 20km race walk on Aug 1 at the ongoing Paris Olympics. However, his journey to be part of the Indian contingent was never easy.Speaking to TOI over phone just before…
NEW DELHI: Government Monday told Rajya Sabha that a clarification issued with regard to the gazette notification for name change mandating a married woman to get an NOC from her husband to revert to her maiden surname was aimed at avoiding any legal issues.Govt’s response is important since in March this year, a woman had…
THANE: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar expressed concern over the potential for Manipur-like disturbances in Maharashtra and called for maintaining unity. At a Social Unity Conference in Mumbai, Pawar he Centre’s handling of the ethnic strife in Manipur, which has claimed several lives since last May and said there was concern that similar social disturbances…
