Quote of the day by Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, once observed that passive wishful thinking holds no real value if there was no action put behind it. She stated that she did not believe in people just hoping, insisting that people must work for…
Mukerjee will now succeed Vineet Joshi, who was last month appointed as secretary, Panchayati Raj (File photo) NEW DELHI: In a late-night bureaucratic reshuffle Monday, govt appointed Deepti Gaur Mukerjee, a 1993-batch IAS from the Madhya Pradesh cadre as new higher education secretary. This comes barely three weeks after Naresh Pal Gangwar, a Rajasthan cadre…
Police have arrested the accused, Tariq Ahmad Sofi, employed with wildlife department in Ganderbal. SRINAGAR: J&K police on Monday claimed to have busted a plot by a 51-year-old govt employee to get his former lover’s newlywed husband arrested in a narcotics case. The accused allegedly couriered illegal drugs to the husband in an attempt to…
Nagpur: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday defended proposed amendments to Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), alleging that a section of organizations receiving foreign funds had used the money for “anti-national activities” and that the changes were intended to curb such misuse rather than target any particular community.Responding to criticism from Congress, which has…
Police have arrested the accused, Tariq Ahmad Sofi, employed with wildlife department in Ganderbal. SRINAGAR: J&K police’s counter-intelligence wing arrested two individuals on Monday for allegedly disseminating anti-national content, radical narratives, and extremist viewpoints through social media platforms.The arrests followed raids on Saturday across five locations in Baramulla, Bandipora, Anantnag, and Shopian districts, where digital…
Quote of the day by Pavel Durov. Pavel Durov is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief executive officer of Telegram, a globally popular cloud-based messaging app. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1984, Durov first achieved widespread fame after launching VKontakte, often called VK, in 2006. Built as a local equivalent…
Ladakh has planned to introduce guided wildlife safaris on popular snow leopard and bird-watching trails. SRINAGAR: A safari car can roll past a rhino in Kaziranga. In Ranthambore, it can track a tiger. Put that car in Ladakh. For its elusive snow leopards — masters of camouflage in a landscape where survival depends on staying…
The appointments come as Iran seeks to reinforce its military command structure following the deaths and displacement of senior commanders during the conflict. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has appointed six senior commanders to key positions in the country’s military establishment, filling top posts in the armed forces, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),…
Michael Jordan (Image: Wikipedia) Great achievements rarely happen by accident. Behind almost every extraordinary success sits a long stretch of discipline, sacrifice and genuine commitment. Michael Jordan captured exactly that relationship with basketball in a single striking comparison. “The game is my wife,” he said. “It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back…
Masked men looted jewelry worth $1 million from an Indian jewelry store, 9Lakha, in New Jersey. Four masked men broke into an Indian jewelry store, 9Lakha, on Oak Tree Road in New Jersey and looted valuables worth $1 million in under 1 minute. Surveillance video showed an SUV stopped in front of the store and…