NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday said he will end his hunger strike against the NEET paper leak only after the Centre assures that protesters who participated in the CJP’s march will not face any punitive legal action.In a letter addressed to Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh, Wangchuk thanked them for…
Rahul Gandhi’s press conference NEW DELHI: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on the Centre over the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, accusing the government of failing students and demanding the removal of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.Addressing a press conference, Gandhi alleged…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The Delhi state consumer commission has held BSES Rajdhani Power guilty of deficiency in service for taking more than five years to provide an electricity connection to a consumer who had already paid the required charges. The commission on July 17 said BSES could not prove…
File photo: Lalit Modi (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi on Wednesday said he plans to return to India by the end of this year or early next year after securing major legal relief from the Appellate Tribunal under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property)…
Oil market is heating up again with Brent crude already touching its five-week high of more than $94 a barrel as tensions between the US and Iran intensified. As tensions in the Middle East continue to simmer and traders grow cautious, analysts expect crude prices to remain broadly in the $90-100 a barrel range rather…
Jaishankar with Chinesecounterpart Wang Yi NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said India-China ties have been steadily improving since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping met in Russia’s Kazan in October 2024. He also stressed that peace and tranquility along the border remain the “pre-requisite” for normal bilateral relations.Speaking to…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday upped the ante against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and dared him to contest from the Diamond Harbour constituency in the next Lok Sabha polls.Speaking in the West Bengal assembly, Adhikari launched a veiled attack, referring to the TMC leader’s remarks at the Martyrs’ Day…
Expressing confidence in the country’s youth, Singh added that they would not be swayed by what he called attempts to mislead them. NEW DELIH: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accused the opposition of attempting to use students and young people as “political tools” amid the ongoing protests in Delhi. The defence minister described the…
For thousands of years, humans have relied on the movement of the Sun to understand the passage of time. But one ancient habit may have quietly shaped something people see every day: the direction in which clock hands move. The familiar clockwise motion of modern clocks was not decided by engineering rules or scientific necessity….
The appeal came as a delegation of Opposition MPs prepared to meet Wangchuk at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital to persuade him to end his fast. NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday appealed to climate activist Sonam Wangchuk to end his indefinite hunger strike, saying his health was too important while assuring him that…
