[ad_1] Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s battle for exemption from the National Entrance and Eligibility Test, or NEET – the all-India entrance test for admission to medical courses – suffered a setback Friday after President Droupadi Murmu rejected a bill to exclude the state from its purview and allow it to use Class XII marks instead. Chief…
[ad_1] New Delhi: The investigation into a theft at the AIIMS women doctors’ hostel has led Delhi cops to a 43-year-old woman who cannot resist the lure of gold and has committed several jewellery thefts earlier. The accused, who lives in Ghaziabad, has told police that she is a science graduate with a diploma in…
[ad_1] Kolkata: The Supreme Court judgment cancelling the appointment of more than 25,000 teachers and other school staff in West Bengal has sparked a massive political row, with the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Opposition BJP and CPM trading barbs. But away from this din is the silence of uncertainty that faces 25,753 sacked employees,…
[ad_1] Washington, United States: Donald Trump’s tariffs have become a black and white issue on social media, where penguin memes have gone viral after he targeted an island inhabited by the flightless birds, but no people. One widely shared image on Thursday showed a penguin in place of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval…
[ad_1] New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has searched the Tamil Nadu and Kerala offices of Gokul Chit Fund, a financial services firm that is one of the producers of Malayalam movie ‘L2: Empuraan’. The searches – which sources said are linked to alleged foreign exchange violations – began early Friday at several places, including Gokul…
[ad_1] More than a dozen countries set for US reciprocal tariffs spent the first day of President Donald Trump’s tariff rollout not only bracing for the economic fallout but with confusion about exactly what rates they might face. A White House annex listing future reciprocal tariff rates initially differed for at least 14 economies from…
[ad_1] Washington: Climate change deniers are pushing an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced warming, leading experts to warn against the rise of research that is inherently flawed but marketed as neutral and scrupulously logical. The paper rejects climate models on human-induced global warming and has been widely cited on social media as being the first “peer-reviewed”…
[ad_1] More than 250 passengers on a London-Mumbai Virgin Atlantic flight, many of them Indians, are stuck in Turkey’s Diyarbakir airport for over 40 hours now. An airline spokesperson has said the VS358 flight from London to Mumbai on 2nd April was cancelled due to an “urgent medical diversion” to Diyarbakir airport. After landing, the aircraft…
[ad_1] New Delhi: The passage of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and Mussalman Wakf (Repeal) Bill by Parliament marks a “watershed moment” in the country’s collective quest for socio-economic justice, transparency and inclusive growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. The Prime Minister, who is visiting Thailand and Sri Lanka, said the new legislation will particularly…
[ad_1] Travis Head departed for a duck against KKR© BCCI/Sportzpics The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) suffered their third consecutive defeat in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season, going down by a whopping 80 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Thursday. The defeat for SRH means that the franchise has only won one of…
