Category: Events

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel Monday summoned the National Testing Agency (NTA) chief to review reforms in the backdrop of the NEET-UG paper leak that has raised serious concerns about the procedural flaws in the conduting of the country’s one of the most tedious and competitive examination.NTA chairperson Pradeep Kumar Joshi and other bureaucrats have...

Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, top military and government sources in Pakistan told Reuters.As the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran remains under strain, Tehran has submitted a revised peace proposal through Pakistan. President Donald...

This is how India’s first bullet train would look (Courtesy: Indian Railways via ANI) NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has unveiled the design of the country’s first bullet train, set to run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, displaying an image of the train at the Ministry of Railways in the national capital.Also Read: India’s first ‘swadeshi’ bullet...

Arshdeep Singh NEW DELHI: Contradicting the statement of their sports science head, Punjab Kings on Monday issued a clarification on the fitness of pacer Arshdeep Singh, saying the left-arm seamer is “fully fit” and training regularly with the squad despite recent concerns over his physical condition.The franchise released the statement a day after their 23-run...

West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The chief minister Suvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal cabinet Monday scrapped the assistance to the groups based on religious categorisation, effective ending the religion based schemes run during the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.The BJP government has also done away with the exisiting state OBC list in accordance...

As shipping in the Strait of Hormuz continues to be disrupted due to the Middle East crisis, defence companies and marine contractors are planning to deploy uncrewed mine-clearing systems in and around the narrow waterway.According to a report by the Financial Times, the United Kingdom will send autonomous minehunting vessels built by Canada’s Kraken Robotics...

India’s purchases of Russian crude have remained elevated. (AI image) Making its energy security mandate clear, India has said that it is buying crude oil from Russia irrespective of a sanctions waiver by the US. The statement from Sujata Sharma, joint secretary in the petroleum ministry comes days after a Bloomberg report said that India...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131172383,imgsize-12216,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/screenshot-2026-05-18-145647.jpg" alt="TMC’s Jahangir Khan moves Calcutta HC, seeks protection days after CM Suvendu Adhikari’s 'Pushpa' remark" title=" Suvendu Adhikari; Jahangir Khan ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Suvendu Adhikari; Jahangir Khan NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan on Monday moved the Calcutta high court seeking protection from any coercive action by the West Bengal Police,...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-131172282,imgsize-35174,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72/twisha-sharma.jpg" alt="‘He’s a major drug addict’: Twisha Sharma’s father seeks fresh autopsy at Delhi-AIIMS, flags son-in-law’s substance abuse" title=" Navnidhi Sharma rejected claims that his daughter consumed drugs. ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Navnidhi Sharma rejected claims that his daughter consumed drugs. BHOPAL: Navnidhi Sharma, the father of Twisha Sharma, who was found dead at her...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told WSJ at the World Economic Forum in Davos that software is heading toward being “cheap, maybe essentially free,” warning that whole careers built around writing code may not survive the AI shift. The Anthropic chief executive also predicted SaaS incumbents leaning on code complexity as a moat could “go bust”...