Category: Events

Tamil Nadu assembly Vijay government moves resolution to abolish NEET Tamil Nadu health minister KG Arunraj on Tuesday moved a resolution in the state Assembly seeking the abolition of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), with the DMK, AIADMK, Left parties and PMK supporting the move. The lone BJP MLA staged a walkout during...

Leaders were seen raising slogans and holding placards NEW DELHI: NDA and Congress-led opposition MPs staged rival protests in the Parliament complex on Tuesday and were seen face-to-face, holding placards and raising slogans against each other as security personnel formed a cordon between the two groups.The ruling alliance accused the opposition of avoiding discussions inside...

An IAF MiG-21 firing rockets during a training exercise. (Image credit: IAF) In the summer of 1999, the attention of the nation moved away from the cricket World Cup and on to the barren and desolate peaks overlooking Kargil, a till-then unheard-of town in a remote portion of the country.The early days of May had...

Bald Eagle Jackie (Image credit: Los Angeles County Parks San Dimas Raptor Rescue centre via AP) Jackie, the bald eagle that became an internet sensation through a live nest camera in California, has died after weeks of medical treatment following an illness, her caretakers announced on August 10. The eagle, watched by thousands of people...

Accenture has made an unusual move in order to boost business before the close of its fiscal year. According to a report by Bloomberg, employees have been told that they can carry over unused vacation days into the next financial year, starting September 1. The one-time policy change departs from Accenture’s usual rules and is...

Demis Hassabis, cofounder, Google DeepMind Six days after Google announced that Sir Demis Hassabis was stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, the story that has stuck is not the one Google wrote. It is the one circulating through investor group chats and London AI circles: that Hassabis wanted out entirely, at the same moment...

In photo: The victim Dr Harsh Pandya SURAT: ‘Nai Naveli Dulhan Ho’, a faculty member reportedly told first-year students to endure harassment by senior residents during an inquiry into the suicide of postgraduate student Dr Harsh Pandya.During the inquiry, the committee found that some first-year students had approached two faculty members on Friday evening to...

Sonia hails former PM Manmohan Singh after SC clean chit NEW DELHI: Days after the Supreme Court gave former prime minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit in the coal block allocation case, senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday invoked former PM’s legacy and attacked the Narendra Modi government.Sonia said Singh’s record of integrity and...

Woman logs onto the census website as her husband holds their daughter while their son plays behind them, in Sydney. (Photo: AP) Australians aged 16 and over are being asked optional questions about their sexual orientation and gender for the first time in the country’s census, after the Labor government reversed an earlier decision to...

Mumbai man and his wife were left traumatised after five men in an SUV, allegedly chased their vehicle. MUMBAI: A fitness trainer and strategist from Mahim and his wife were left traumatised after five men in an SUV, allegedly armed with baseball and hockey sticks, chased their vehicle, intercepted it and assaulted him before damaging...