Spread the love SHIMLA/NEW DELHI: The dramatic standoff between Delhi Police and Himachal Pradesh Police over the arrest of three Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers for the shirtless protest at the AI Summit in Delhi dragged on till the early hours of Thursday.The Delhi-Haryana police team was stopped thrice by Shimla police — the last time at 4am on Thursday...
India, Israel upgrade ties; PM backs Gaza peace plan
Spread the love PM Narendra Modi in Israel on Thursday said, “The Gaza Peace Plan has opened a pathway towards peace. India has extended its full support to these efforts. In the future as well, we will continue to engage in dialogue and cooperation with all countries.”In a joint statement, PM Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed US...
‘What are we teaching Class VIII children’: PM Modi questions NCERT lapse, Pradhan vows action
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday vowed to take action against those responsible for the reference to judicial corruption in an NCERT textbook, amid indications of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unhappiness over what he considers to be a grave lapse.Modi is learnt to have flagged the controversial inclusion of corruption among judiciaries in the...
Protests at JNU escalate, over 50 students held amid heavy police deployment
Spread the love Tensions flared at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday after a student protest escalated into clashes with police, leading to the detention of 51 students and injuries on both sides, as reported by news agency PTI.The unrest began when the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) organised a “Long March” from the campus to the Ministry of Education,...
15-year-old forced to drink, gang-raped in car; 2 held in Haldwani
Spread the love NAINITAL: Two men lured a 15-year-old Class 10 student away on the pretext of visiting a tourist spot, allegedly forced her to consume alcohol and raped her in their car at a secluded spot in Haldwani’s Kathgodam area. The accused worked as taxi drivers, and were arrested following a complaint by the survivor’s family.Police said the alleged...
Drone-dropped arms cache seized near Bikaner; BSF, police recover 5 China-made pistols, 325 cartridges
Spread the love JAISALMER: BSF and Rajasthan Police Thursday seized an arms cache allegedly dropped by a drone from Pakistan in the Khajuwala area of Bikaner district, recovering five China-made pistols, 325 cartridges and a drone weighing about 70 kg. The joint operation took place at Chak 24 KND in Gram Panchayat 14 BD under Khajuwala police station, where the...
‘Pelted banners and sticks, threw shoes’: Students detained for breaking JNU gate lock
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A protest march called by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) against JNU vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit’s alleged casteist remarks escalated into a two-hour clash with police on Thursday after students broke open the triple-locked main gate and attempted to march towards the ministry of education, leading to detentions and injuries.Police said the march...
A brittle shell: On ISRO and transparency
Spread the love A venerable institution, facing accusations of opacity, decided to stun its detractors with some transparency. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made public the report of a technical committee, constituted to analyse why the NVS-02 satellite, which was launched aboard a GSLV rocket on January 29, 2025, could not be placed in its intended orbit. Until this...
45% drop in Indians at US universities over visa uncertainty, high cost
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A 45% decline in Indian student enrolments at US universities in Aug 2025, alongside a 25% rise in international applications to Indian graduate management programmes, points to a clear realignment in global management education, according to Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)’s latest white paper.The data, exclusively accessed by TOI, indicates the long-dominant North American study...
Anthropic Claude Code’s security flaws expose devices to silent hacking, claims report
Spread the love Security researchers claim to have uncovered three security vulnerabilities in Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line AI tool. These flaws could have allowed attackers to execute code remotely on a developer’s machine or steal sensitive API keys. According to a Check Point report, company’s researchers found and reported all three flaws to Anthropic, which issued fixes for all and...
