Spread the love One Kashmiri Pandit employee said they would not be intimidated by the threats and would neither be scared nor leave the Valley A fresh threat letter was allegedly circulated on social media targeting Kashmiri Pandit employees serving in the Kashmir Valley, prompting the All PM Package Employees Forum Kashmir to seek enhanced security from the Jammu and...
Taking a leaf out of Amul’s textbook to help rare-disease patients
Spread the love Patient data, including medical records and patient experiences, are essential for scientists to develop new treatments, especially for rare diseases. The data help identify diagnostic biomarkers, predict disease progression, and help investigators design better clinical trials. This is important because clinical trials are required to show that a new treatment is safe and effective before a country’s regulators...
Using thunderquakes to X-ray earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action
Spread the love When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears. When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves that ripple through the soil and rock beneath. The resulting vibrations are known...
U.K. forecasts ‘biggest’ El Nino will smash records, spark hottest year
Spread the love This year’s El Nino weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century and could make 2027 the hottest year globally, Britain’s national weather agency predicted Friday. An El Nino weather event happens when warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific trigger worldwide changes in winds, atmospheric pressure and rainfall, as well as higher...
‘We’d be in office if educated’: Mumbai auto drivers block road over Marathi rule
Spread the love Autorickshaw drivers in Mumbai began a three-day strike on Monday. MUMBAI: A section of autorickshaw drivers in Mumbai on Monday staged protests and began a three-day strike against the Marathi language requirement for auto-rickshaw, taxi and cab drivers, with non-Marathi-speaking drivers saying the directive would put an additional financial burden on them.Drivers staged a roadblock on Kandivli...
Yogi vs Congress over ‘fish feast’ in Ayodhya: ‘Even chameleon would be put to shame’
Spread the love Yogi calls out Ajay Rai, Congress says ‘diverting issues’ NEW DELHI: A political row erupted between the BJP and Congress over an alleged fish feast organised during a welcome programme for newly appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai in Ayodhya.The controversy erupted after a video surfaced showing fish being prepared at a banquet hall in Ayodhya,...
Manipur violence: Houses burnt, CRPF jawan injured in gunfight in Senapati
Spread the love CRPF jawan injured, houses set ablaze in Manipur (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Several houses were set ablaze and a CRPF jawan was later injured in a gunfight between two groups in Manipur’s Senapati district on Monday, police said.According to a senior officer, houses were set ablaze after miscreants torched a house in Taphou Kuki village in Kangpokpi...
‘Fix schools, not lavish homes’: CJP targets Rs 92cr bill for ministers’ bungalows
Spread the love The Cockroach Janta Party criticized the Centre’s spending on ministers’ residences NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) targeted the Centre over the Rs 92.35 crore spent on the upkeep of official residences of Union ministers in 2025-26, saying the money could instead have been used to build government schools.“Stop fixing your lavish homes, and fix the...
‘Nation doesn’t have high expectations of you’: UP CM Yogi slams Rahul over ‘Manusmriti’ remarks
Spread the love CM Yogi slams Rahul over Manusmriti remarks NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday stepped up his attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the Manusmriti, while also targeting the party’s state leadership over its alleged conduct in Ayodhya.Speaking in Raebareli, CM Yogi said Rahul Gandhi, as leader of opposition, had...
‘Normal practice’: Govt on Sergio Gor’s ‘no questions’ remark at PM Modi-Trump meet
Spread the love PM Modi and President Trump met on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in France in June. NEW DELHI: The government on Monday said discussions about arrangements for a leader’s public appearance are a “normal practice,” clarifying the context of US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor’s remarks regarding the bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
