Sonam Wangchuk removed from Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk was removed from Jantar Mantar early Saturday and taken to hospital as his hunger strike against alleged irregularities in the NEET examination entered Day 21.Wangchuk was removed from the stage 48 hours before his planned march to Parliament, which is scheduled for the first…
Far below the surface of the Pacific, off the southeastern coast of Japan, there’s a place where the Earth is quietly minting gold. Not in glittering nuggets or chunky veins, but in forms so small and hidden that you can’t see them with your eyes—or even with a regular microscope.Japanese researchers have been studying this…
US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada, accusing Ottawa of failing to manage its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to blanket parts of the United States with what he called “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air.“In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Canada would be held responsible for the…
NEW DELHI: Women formed the majority of NEET-UG candidates and qualifiers again in 2026, but their representation thinned sharply at the very top, with only 30 women among the 138 candidates scoring 690 or more.Women accounted for 13.3 lakh of 22.8 lakh registrations, or 58.5%, and 6.5 lakh of 11.2 lakh candidates who qualified in…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from West Bengal and Election Commission to a PIL which alleged that the state govt was denying benefits of social welfare schemes, including ration, to people whose names were deleted from the voter list because of doubtful citizenship during special intensive revision (SIR).On a PIL by Prasenjit…
NEW DELHI: Pained by the unfortunate demise of a cancer patient awaiting Kerala HC’s order on her plea questioning exorbitant cost of life-saving medicines, the Supreme Court Friday took suo motu cognisance of both issues impacting right to life – plight of patients who cannot afford essential life-saving drugs and the judicial expediency in such…
NEW DELHI: After 75 years of being a Republic and a decade of Swachh Bharat Mission, absence of toilets in courts hauntingly impedes women lawyers from practicing, lamented Supreme Court Friday and drew a six-week deadline for states to construct washrooms for women advocates in all court complexes.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices…
NEW DELHI: Signals from DMK and NCP (SP) on the Constitution amendment bill, which will increase seats in Lok Sabha and implement women’s reservation law from 2029, suggest that political momentum is building up in govt’s favour. This comes on the back of the disintegration of Trinamool Congress after BJP trounced it in Bengal elections,…
