NEW DELHI: Resignation may have ended Dharmendra Pradhan’s stint as union education minister, but not his standing within the NDA. Returning to Parliament on Monday, just two days after stepping down over the alleged NEET paper leak controversy, the BJP MP was greeted with chants of “Dharmendra Pradhan zindabad” and a hero’s welcome from party…
NASA astronaut Chris Williams has returned to Earth after completing an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, landing safely in Kazakhstan alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew spent 241 days in orbit, during which they completed 3,856 trips around the planet and travelled more than 102 million miles. Their…
E20 Petrol deepfake battle: Nitin Gadkari moves Bombay HC over defamatory content targeting him NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Monday allowed Union minister Nitin Gadkari to file a civil suit against the alleged circulation of defamatory and deepfake content about him on the internet in connection with the E20 ethanol-blended petrol programme.Justice Abhay…
In 1975, Jake Jabs took the bold decision to make an $80,000 investment, which later led to the emergence of a multimillion-dollar company from a weak furniture business. The 95-year-old founder and chief executive officer of the American Furniture Warehouse took over the struggling company when it was just on the brink of going bankrupt…
1993 Mumbai blasts case: SC reserves order on Abu Salem’s plea for premature release after 25 years in jail NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on a plea filed by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Abu Salem seeking premature release from his life sentence on the ground that he has completed…
CPWD deploys 3D printing to fast-track defence construction in border areas NEW DELHI: For the first time, Centre’s construction agency, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), has built a watch tower (forward duty point) for the armed forces in Jammu using 3D printing construction technology in just 45 days. The project is expected to pave…
For more than a hundred years, a small but remarkable piece of ancient clothing sat away from public view inside Bolton Museum’s collections. Few visitors knew it existed, and even fewer had the chance to see its fragile wool fibres, shaped by hands nearly two millennia ago.Now, after a careful conservation project, the Egyptian head…
NEW DELHI: The special fast track court at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Courts on Monday directed the director of prosecution to appoint a public prosecutor to represent the State (CBI) in the NEET UG 2026 paper leak case. The direction came after no one appeared on behalf of the CBI during the hearing.The court subsequently adjourned…
A 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus sits atop Mount Cristo Rey in Lourdes Castanon, Mexico. More than 40,000 pilgrims from around the world journey to the sacred site annually where Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet. The statue has crowned the summit of the peak since 1939, when it was carved…
Dave Bautista (Image: Wikipedia) Success stories tend to look simple from the outside. People see the awards, the fame, the money, but rarely the years of struggle and rejection that came first. Dave Bautista, the actor and former professional wrestler, is open about exactly that gap. “I’m a poor kid from the streets,” he said….