Category: Events

NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Saturday claimed that he was “beaten and put under detention” by the Delhi Police as chaos erupted at Jantar Mantar after Sonam Wangchuk was taken to hospital.In a social media post on X, Dipke alleged that the Delhi Police was cracking down at Jantar Mantar and...

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.Simultaneously, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was also detained.“I have beaten and put under detention by Delhi Police,”...

R Ashwin on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (Agency Image) Amid speculation over Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s ODI futures, former India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has questioned the timing of the debate, insisting that if the selectors wanted to move on from the veteran duo ahead of the 2027 ODI World Cup, they should have...

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...

Argentina players hold a banner with the words “The Malvinas are Argentine”, referring to the Falkland Islands, at the end of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between England and Argentina in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) The White House has publicly defended the right of Argentina’s players to display the controversial Falklands...

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: 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...

File photo 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...

Representative image NEW DELHI: Govt defended its high-speed rail cooperation with Japan, dismissing the statement of a former Japanese minister blaming India for the lack of progress in the ongoing work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai ‘bullet train’ project.Describing the comments by former justice minister Hideki Makihara, who accused Indian authorities of not keeping their promises, as...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-132472000,imgsize-265200,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/supreme-court.jpg" alt="No doctor would refuse treatment to brutally sexually assaulted child: Supreme Court” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> 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...