Month: May 2025

[ad_1] Three dead, two hurt in Jharkhand hospital roof collapse JAMSHEDPUR: Three patients were killed and two others injured when a third-floor balcony of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital in Jharkhand's Sakchi collapsed Saturday evening.One of the injured has been shifted to Tata Main Hospital for advanced treatment, a source said. The bodies of David Johnson (75) and Lukas Tirki (61) were recovered from the debris on Saturday, while that of Srichand Tanti (67) was found post-midnight.The hospital's deputy superintendent Nakul Chaudhary said 15 patients were in the medicine ward on the second floor when the balcony roof collapsed on them. The hospital rescue team safely evacuated 10 of them.On CM Hemant Soren's instruction, East Singhbhum DC Ananya Mittal has constituted a team to investigate the accident and submit a report within two days.State health minister Irfan Ansari […]

[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: Odisha government on Sunday said it intended to send a letter to Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, requesting her to stop referring to the recently constructed Jagannath temple in Digha as "Jagannath Dham", even as the controversy sparked a war of words between the governing BJP and opposition.The development coincided with claims by a senior servitor of Puri Jagannath Temple, Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra, that he had helped make the idols for the Digha shrine using leftover wood from the Puri temple. Dasmohapatra was questioned Sunday by Puri temple authorities as part of an ongoing government probe into the claims."Action will be taken against those responsible if found guilty of illegally using Jagannath temple's sacred timber to build the idols of Digha Jagannath temple. Our CM (Mohan Majhi) will write to the Bengal government to stop branding Digha Jagannath temple as […]

[ad_1] Congress spokesman Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Even as Congress claims PM Narendra Modi buckled under its pressure to reverse his earlier decision on enumerating caste, the party Sunday added a twist by releasing a 2021 govt answer in Parliament in which it had stated that it will not conduct a caste census in 2021 as a policy decision, and also quoting a Centre's affidavit beseeching Supreme Court not to order a caste census against the govt policy. The opposition party asked the PM if he will accept that he has taken a U-turn on the issue.To amplify its attacks on BJP, Congress has directed its state units to hold statewide rallies at the assembly level to showcase the role of Congress and Rahul Gandhi in making caste census a reality, with the directive that they should highlight that BJP […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - the country's premier agriculture research organisation - has developed the world's first genome-edited improved varieties of rice to boost yields by 20-30%, conserve water and reduce emission of methane - a potent greenhouse gas.Releasing the two genome-edited varieties - 'DRR Dhan 100 (Kamala)' and 'Pusa DST Rice 1' - Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said these two climate-resilient and high yielding varieties would ensure a second green revolution in the country. He instructed ICAR officials to make these seeds available to farmers at the earliest."Scientists are currently in the process of getting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of these two varieties. Certified seeds will reach farmers for cultivation in minimum two years," said an official.Genome-editing, particularly the CRISPR-Cas technology, is being recognised as a breakthrough in precision […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: With the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduates (CUET-UG) 2025 set to begin on May 8, the National Testing Agency is yet to release the subject-wise schedule, leaving more than 14 lakh candidates in suspense. The exam is slated to continue till June 1, with multiple slots across test centres nationwide.In previous years, the NTA typically issued the schedule and city intimation slips 10 to 20 days ahead of the exam. But as of May 4, aspirants still do not know their exact exam dates or assigned centres, fuelling anxiety and hampering final preparation and travel plans.The NTA has assured that city intimation slips and admit cards will be released soon on its official website, cuet.nta.nic.in. While the intimation slip will reveal the exam centre location, the admit card will provide details such as exam date, shift […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: An e-rickshaw driver was arrested for allegedly slashing a cabbie's neck with a blade in an incident of road rage in southwest Delhi's Dabri area.The victim, Gagandeep Singh (33), left bleeding and seriously injured, is recovering. Singh, who lives in Gurgaon's Sector 107, stopped his car at a red light on Dabri-Dwarka Road on way to his in-laws' house in Vikaspuri on the night of April 30. His mother was also in the cab.As they waited at the signal, an e-rickshaw hit the car from behind. When Singh stepped out and asked the e-rickshaw driver to drive more carefully, the man began threatening him before pulling out a blade concealed under his tongue and slashed his neck.Blade attack: Police verifying if accused has history of violenceThe cabbie who was injured in an incident of road rage here […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Amid fears of a surge in imports from China, the latest data available showed that electronics exports to India, as well as the US, fell in Jan and Feb. While these numbers provided comfort to Indian policymakers, trends in recent weeks - after Trump's tariff actions - also did not show any surge, with a high-level group monitoring shipments from China and Asean, sources familiar with the stepped-up vigil said.The value of the top 10 electronics products exported by Chinese companies to India stayed at $1.8 billion during Jan and Feb. As US President Donald Trump took office at the end of Jan, imports into America halved. In Jan, Chinese shipments of the top 10 electronics items were estimated at $10 billion, which fell to $6 billion in Feb. A part of the reason for the fall […]

[ad_1] This is a representational image NEW DELHI: MCD's status report for desilting of drains reveals that the civic body completed only 21.3% of the work by April 25. With the initial deadline for finishing the work set for May 31, the progress so far appears insufficient.Of the target of 1.3 lakh metric tonnes to be lifted and taken to designated sites by May end, only 27,000 MT was cleared from drains more than 4 feet deep, as per the report.The civic body didn't comment on the issue while several RWAs reported that no desilting had taken place in their localities. To meet the target, the pace needs to be significantly increased, they said. Desilting is done in two phases. Phase I is carried out before monsoon from Jan 1 to May 31, when 60% of the cleaning is done […]

[ad_1] Donald Trump has declared that the United States will slap a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films, accusing other countries of undermining Hollywood and using cinema as a propaganda tool. The dramatic announcement came via a post on Truth Social, in which the US President described the state of the American movie industry in stark terms.“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Trump posted. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!”“Therefore, I am authorising the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the […]