Category: Events

TN CM Vijay announces 3 free LPG cylinders, expands free bus travel for women NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday announced a set of welfare measures in the state Assembly, including three free cooking gas cylinders a year for eligible beneficiaries and an expansion of the fare-free bus travel scheme...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, co-founded The Primary School in East Palo Alto, California in 2016. The school was designed to serve the low-income families. The tuition-free private school aimed to support the “whole child” through wraparound services such as dental checkups, wellness coaching, and early-intervention screenings. For more than ten years...

Physical boarding pass stamping to end from September 1 International passengers departing from India will no longer need to get their boarding passes stamped at immigration counters from September 1. According to an X (formerly Twitter) post shared by national broadcaster DD News, the Bureau of Immigration has introduced the change to make the process...

Tamil Nadu chief minister C. Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has dropped the proposed greenfield airport project at Parandur, chief minister C Joseph Vijay announced in the Assembly on Monday.The chief minister, while making announcements under Section 110, said new sites were being considered for the proposed airport and the location would be...

P Chidambaram; ex-diplomat Navdeep Suri NEW DELHI: Former Union minister P Chidambaram on Monday said the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls could leave 10% of India’s eligible population — or nearly 10 crore people — without the right to vote, after a former diplomat detailed difficulties he...

Photo/Screengrab England fast bowler Brydon Carse is under investigation after an incident at a nightclub in Derby on Saturday, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Sunday.Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Carse being led away from a club in handcuffs by four police officers. Carse, who is part of England’s...

While many students miss class, teachers use inflated tyre tube to cross Baisali river, reach school. BHOPAL: Time and tide wait for none. Nor do teachers of two govt schools in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind, floating on tubes, paddling and bobbing up on a rain-fed river to beat an unforgiving e-attendance app.The six male teachers navigate...

Image courtesy: South China Morning Post A Chinese humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra has captured global attention after running 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt’s men’s world record of 9.58 seconds, according to a report by Reuters. Developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, Tiangong Ultra won its preliminary heat at...

Kuldeep Yadav (ANI Photo) India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak firmly dismissed speculation surrounding Kuldeep Yadav’s absence from the Colombo Test, insisting the left-arm wrist spinner was genuinely down with viral fever and there was “no need to fake” an illness to leave him out of the XI.“If the team needs a spinner and then he...

Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Sunil Gavaskar Former India captains Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar are among 21 former international cricket captains who have written to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, asking for proper medical treatment and welfare of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister and World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan.The letter was initiated by...