Representative image Private hospitals in India have negligible research output though they deal with 60% of patients. A study of research at Indian hospitals during the 5-year period from January 2021 to December 2025 also found that nearly all hospitals without medical colleges produced fewer than 10 publications annually.The study published in the latest issue...
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‘I am done with it’: Virat Kohli gives blunt verdict on Test comeback
Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) Virat Kohli has ruled out any possibility of returning to Test cricket, joking during the launch of his new footwear line that he would rather undersell the product than make a comeback to add more runs to his Test tally.The former India captain, who retired from Test cricket last year after...
‘Not sure people know about it’: Sooryavanshi makes cheeky admission – watch
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Screengrabs) NEW DELHI: Fresh off a record-breaking knock in the Tri-Nation Series final, teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made a cheeky admission about his credentials in 50-over cricket, saying many people may not even realise how much experience he has in the format.The 15-year-old starred in India A’s title-clinching victory over Sri Lanka...
No JEE ranks, GATE scores in resumes, IIT students told
Representative image MUMBAI: In a set of decisions that could reshape campus recruitment across the country’s premier engineering institutions, the All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC) has directed students across all 23 IITs to remove JEE ranks, GATE scores, percentiles and similar entrance examination credentials from their resumes. At the same time, the IITs have decided...
Over 20 lakh student sighs of relief after smooth NEET-UG retest
NEET UG re-examination NEW DELHI: National Testing Agency (NTA) and education ministry kept their fingers crossed until the final answer sheets of India’s largest entrance exam, NEET-UG, were sealed on Sunday, bringing to a close a high-stakes retest conducted under the shadow of the May 3 paper leak.Organised in 37 days, far short of the...
Goods exports up 15% in 2-and-half months of 2026-27
NEW DELHI: Amid the West Asia conflict, goods exports rose nearly 15% during the first two-and-a-half months of the current financial year, sustaining the momentum seen during April.“Even now, if we see April, May and 14 days of June. I have data until June 14, it (exports growth) is 15%,” commerce and industry minister Piyush...
Why IT firms are moving beyond token maxxing
BENGALURU: As enterprises race to deploy GenAI, a new challenge is emerging for IT firms: token maxxing. Tokens-the units consumed whenever large language models process information-have become the fundamental currency of AI. But after an initial wave of experimentation, IT services companies are increasingly warning that relentless token consumption without measurable business outcomes could become...
Govt starts wor k on steps to increase domestic resilience
NEW DELHI: Wiser from the experience of disruptions caused by the war in West Asia, govt departments have started work on a series of measures to increase domestic resilience and reduce vulnerabilities caused by shocks, whose frequency has increased in recent years.From identifying 100-150 items for import substitution, to boosting the production of active pharamceutical...
Grid bottlenecks hamper green energy expansion
Representative image NEW DELHI: India’s rapid renewable energy expansion is running into a serious bottleneck, with delays in transmission infrastructure forcing large-scale curtailment of green power.According to Ember, an energy think-tank, transmission constraints accounted for nearly two-thirds of the 470 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy curtailed in first quarter of 2026. The problem has become particularly...
‘Functional urban settlements’: Govt may create new category
Representative AI image NEW DELHI: With villages around cities and towns acquiring urban characteristics – more built-up area, less dependence on agriculture for livelihood and more facilities like high-speed transport network – govt is looking at creating a new category – ‘functional urban settlements’ – in addition to the existing ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ classifications.An estimate...
