Lucknow: It was the best three months of monsoon for the city in the last six years. Lucknow received the highest rainfall since 2020 in the months of June, July and August, with a total of 542.7 mm of rainfall recorded so far.The last time it rained this heavily was in 2019 when a total…
Ivy League universities are losing US students to the South: What’s behind it. (AI Image) A growing number of high-performing students in the US are turning away from elite universities in the Northeast and West Coast in favour of institutions in the Southern states. The shift is being driven by a combination of political climate,…
NEW DELHI: India joined other SCO member states in strongly condemning in the Tianjin Declaration the military strikes by Israel and the US on Iran, a member of the Eurasian group, in June this year. SCO had in June too condemned Israel’s military strikes on Iran in a joint statement, but India had then refused…
Living with asthma means paying close attention to your surroundings, and plants are no exception. While greenery is often associated with cleaner air and a calming atmosphere, not all plants are asthma-friendly. Some varieties can help create a healthier indoor environment with minimal pollen, while others release allergens, dust, or strong scents that may trigger…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said since states have given up 15% of MBBS seats to the all India quota (AIQ), they can validly reserve rest of the seats in govt medical colleges for natives, and upheld Telangana’s medical admission norm mandating a candidate to study classes 9-12 within the state.During hearing of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and SCERTs on a PIL alleging that these two have failed to implement a year-old directive of the apex court to integrate comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in textbooks.A bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and…
Lucknow: Freedom is perhaps an undervalued asset and only those who have spent a life in confinement know its real value.UP tourism department is now offering a chance to people to understand the worth of freedom.As part of its efforts to build a Swatantrata Sangram circuit, tourism department has identified Kranti Grams, which are a…
US President Donald Trump on Monday called America’s trade ties with India a “one-sided disaster,” further stating that New Delhi has offered to reduce tariffs to “almost nothing” but it is “getting late” His remarks come after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the…
NEW DELHI: Expressing serious doubts about its own 2014 verdict delivered by a five-judge constitution bench, which held that provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act were not applicable to religious and linguistic minority educational institutions, Supreme Court has said the ruling “strikes at the heart of good quality universal elementary education, its consequences are…
NEW DELHI: Former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday vacated VP Enclave, almost six weeks after his unexpected resignation from the second highest constitutional post. Dhankhar has shifted to a farmhouse at Gadaipur in south Delhi’s Chhatarpur, which belongs to INLD chief Abhay Chautala, in what is supposed to be an encampment before he gets an…
