Supreme Court denies relief to Tarun Tejpal NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal to surrender within two weeks in connection with the 2013 Goa sexual assault case.The direction comes after Tejpal challenged the Bombay high court’s August 6 judgment, which overturned his acquittal by a trial court and…
Authorities are asking people to report sightings and signs of the animals. (Photo: WWF Australia) Wallabies introduced to New Zealand more than a century ago have spread across more than 200,000 hectares in the country’s North Island. Authorities are now working to control their population because the animals can damage native forests, compete with farm…
Goddard physicist Henry Plotkin inspects the retroreflector array destined for the 1964 Beacon Explorer A satellite, PC: Henry Plotkin/ Nasa On October 29, 1964, a team at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, recorded the first successful laser returns from an artificial satellite. The target was Beacon Explorer B, also known as Explorer…
The movie will include Sadhguru’s narration of yogic tradition. Sadhguru has announced a collaboration with Graphic India this Shravan to produce an animated feature film on Shiva as Adiyogi, described in the yogic tradition as the first yogi and the source of Yoga.The film will draw on yogic lore narrated by Sadhguru and explore the…
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging…
Rahul, Kharge write to PM Modi over caste census NEW DELHI: Congress high-command Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged the PM Modi-led government to change the way caste information is being collected in the census, warning that the current method could result in inaccurate data.The grand old party leaders also called for withdrawal…
Dr DisRespect vs Nickmercs heats up as Doc appears to threaten him during Call of Duty stream. (Image via: Instagram/@drdisrespect & @nickmercs) Dr DisRespect, whose real name is Herschel “Guy,” has once again taken aim at Nickmercs, this time during a Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Beta livestream. On August 24, 2026, a 42-second…
File photo: Congress MP P Chidambaram NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member P Chidambaram on Tuesday said simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies cannot be held in 2029 even if Parliament passes the proposed One Nation, One Election (ONOE) legislation.Chidambaram, who appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining…
Calcutta HC protects Abhishek Banerjee from arrest and allows overseas travel for medical treatment. NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court has clarified that Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee can travel abroad for medical treatment, subject to the conditions permitted by the Supreme Court.The clarification came in connection with a travel restriction imposed on Banerjee in…
The government is considering making annual dope tests mandatory for every pilot, instead of the current requirement covering 10% of the pilot network. NEW DELHI: The aviation ministry is considering mandating dope tests for all pilots at least once a year, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu said on Tuesday.The current rules require dope…