NEW DELHI: Congress has announced names of seven candidates for upcoming RS elections. Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge will file his nomination for RS from Karnataka.Local candidate Mansoor Ali Khan and AICC spokesman Pawan Khera are the other two candidates from Karnataka. In Jharkhand, Congress has decided to field Pranav Jha, who is an advisor to…
Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday said he was on his way to India ahead of his proposed protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.He plans to demand the resignation of union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged irregularities in several national-level examinations, including NEET, CUET, CBSE…
Something unusual is happening deep beneath Switzerland, and it is not getting much attention outside energy circles yet. Engineers are building what could become one of the world’s largest underground energy storage systems, designed to store renewable electricity on a massive scale and release it when the grid is under pressure.Early reports suggest the system…
NEW DELHI: Stepping up efforts to address the struggle of passengers in booking confirmed tickets, IRCTC has deactivated over three crore suspicious user IDs and also placed another six crore under verification of authenticity to prevent misuse.The railways’ catering and ticketing arm has also expanded its AI-based kitchen monitoring system across its network to deal…
NEW DELHI: In view of the spike in bitumen prices and shortage of the key raw material for road projects due to prolonged West Asia conflict, highways minister Nitin Gadkari has said that his ministry is considering building cement concrete roads instead of bituminous stretches.Speaking at launch of the country’s first Flex Fuel Vehicle on…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Moscow would not interfere in the “delicate” relationship between India and China, expressing confidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping were working to resolve outstanding issues of mutual interest, including the long-running border dispute.Speaking during an interaction with media in St Petersburg, Putin said…
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi called the death of Akanksha Chaturvedi “not suicide, but a consequence of a corrupt, broken system under PM Modi”. He said the PM had ruined the education system so much over 12 years that “an entire young generation of India is paying the price for it”. Rahul said Akanksha had wanted…
NEW DELHI: Around 500 ethanol dispensing stations (E100) will be set up in the country by Dec and 5,000 by 2027, petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Thursday. The move is aimed at accelerating penetration of flex fuel vehicles (FFVs). Puri made the announcement at launch of India’s first flex-fuel car — WagonR by Maruti…
Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar NEW DELHI: Facing criticism over the absence of women in his newly constituted Cabinet, Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday assured that more ministers would be inducted and that women would get representation in the government in due course.Shivakumar took oath as chief minister on Wednesday along with…
NEW DELHI: Cancer patients across India are scrambling to procure two life-saving chemotherapy drugs as a shortage of Cisplatin and Carboplatin begins to disrupt treatment schedules. Doctors at AIIMS Delhi, private hospitals and cancer centres across the country warn that prolonged shortages could affect outcomes for patients undergoing curative treatment.Hospitals are reporting dwindling stocks, while…