Nitin Nabin discusses digital public infrastructure, clean energy with envoys of 23 EU countries (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: Rapid expansion of digital public infrastructure to empower citizens and India’s growing focus on clean energy, AI and semiconductor development were at the centre of BJP president Nitin Nabin’s interaction with mission heads of 23 European Union countries….
Donald Trump thanks India after Hyderabad renames road after him NEW DELHI: Donald Trump on Friday thanked India after a road adjoining the US Consulate in Hyderabad was officially renamed Donald Trump Avenue, claiming he was the first American president to be honoured in such a manner.His remarks came days after Telangana formally renamed the…
Government plans simpler import rule to cut medicine wastage NEW DELHI: To cut avoidable wastage of imported medicines, the Centre has proposed replacing a complex shelf-life rule with a simple requirement — drugs should have at least one year of shelf life left when they enter India. Health ministry has issued a draft notification proposing…
Texas education officials have approved a plan that will require public school students to read selected Bible passages as part of their classroom instruction beginning in the 2030–2031 school year.The Texas State Board of Education voted to adopt a statewide literary reading list that includes passages from the Christian Bible along with other classic texts….
SIR now makes its way into NCERT Class IX textbook NEW DELHI: Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls launched last year ahead of Bihar assembly polls has entered the Class IX textbooks, 1975-77 Emergency has moved from senior school political science into compulsory secondary reading, while economics has been recast around scarcity,…
Sri Lankan-origin Canadian-American venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said he came to the US on an H-1B visa. So did Elon Musk. Sri Lankan-origin American billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said he came to the country on the much-discussed, much-abused H-1B visa program at a time when there were no takers for the visa program. Speaking to the…
Katchatheevu island transfer to Sri Lanka ‘dark chapter’ of Congress: BJP (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: With Congress in office in Kerala and part of govt in Tamil Nadu, BJP fired a twin salvo at the party and alleged that its decisions have harmed the interests of the two states. BJP said it was the 52nd anniversary…
Some things just can’t be taught from a book. You can read every manual ever written on how to ride a bike, run a meeting, or raise a child, and still be hopeless at the actual thing until you’ve watched someone do it and copied them. King Charles once put this in a wonderfully humble…
Freeman Dyson (Image: Wikipedia) Ask an adult what killed their love of a subject, and you’ll often hear the same answer. The exams. Something they once found fascinating got flattened into a syllabus, a set of model answers, and a grade out of a hundred. The physicist Freeman Dyson saw the danger in that, and…
Loss-making Air India stops crew laundry services on international layovers NEW DELHI: : This cost-cutting move could potentially stink all the way from ground to the sky. Loss-making Air India has informed its crew that “routine availability of laundry services during international layovers will be discontinued from July 1, 2026.” The facility will, however, continue…