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A teacher was dismissed after punishing a student by writing abuse repeatedly (Representative image) RAIPUR: A teacher at a private school in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur was dismissed after punishing a Class VIII student by making him write an obscene abuse directed 200 times, 100 times each in Hindi and English, triggering outrage among parents and prompting...

TOI correspondent from Washington: The US-Iran war has entered its most dangerous phase to date. The conflict is now spilling across multiple middle eastern countries and sucking in new combatants – including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq – in an escalation that military strategists say is beginning to resemble the chain-reaction dynamics...

Indian hockey team players in new saffron jersey Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday criticised the decision to change the Indian hockey team’s jersey colour from its traditional blue to saffron, saying it had hurt the emotions of sports fans.The Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams will...

Rahul faces privilege notice: Anurag Thakur seeks action over ‘unparliamentary’ remarks NEW DELHI: Union minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday moved a privilege motion against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of using unparliamentary and derogatory expressions during the Monsoon Session and violating the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Bihar government over the continuation of Panchayati Raj minister Deepak Prakash, asking the state to explain how he remained in office beyond the six-month constitutional limit without being elected to the state legislature.The matter was mentioned before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya...

BHUBANESWAR: A question paper from the Odisha medical postgraduate examination was allegedly shared on social media while the test was in progress, triggering an internal investigation, according to news agency PTI.The incident took place on July 27 during the All Odisha Medical PG Examination, when images of the General Surgery second paper for the MS/MD...

The United States has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $58.6 billion to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, marking one of the Pentagon’s biggest air defence procurement deals as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine continue to deplete critical missile stockpiles.The US Army said the contract converts a previous one-year, $4.7 billion agreement awarded in...

Protest against NEET UG paper leak was held at Jantar Mantar (ANI images) NEW DELHI: NEET-UG 2026 was compromised after the same set of individuals was entrusted with both question-setting and translation, exposing a key procedural lapse.The teachers entrusted with setting and translating the NEET-UG 2026 question paper allegedly memorised the final questions, reconstructed them...

Image: AI Generated Life is often imagined as something that flourishes under mild conditions, comfortable temperatures, liquid water and breathable air. Yet some of Earth’s most resilient organisms have evolved in places that appear utterly inhospitable. They inhabit boiling hot springs, acidic pools, frozen Antarctic lakes, crushing ocean trenches and hypersaline deserts where most forms...

Image Credit: X/ @CNN en Español Growing concerns about the cost of living and retirement security have led a number of Americans to look beyond their borders for a more sustainable way of life. An exclusive CNN feature, drawn from a conversation with the retired California teacher Paula Dreyfuss, follows the story of how she...