Lucknow: At least 16 schoolgirls took ill following a suspected gas leak at a private school in Sandila town of Hardoi on Thursday morning. The students complained of coughing and breathlessness and four of them fell unconscious. Nine of the ill students were referred to KGMU where their condition is said to be stable.Chief Minister…
NEW DELHI: To protect the Aravali hills and ranges – the only barrier against desertification of the Gangetic plains – Supreme Court Thursday barred grant of mining leases, but allowed existing ones to operate, while asking the Centre to prepare a management plan for sustainable mining for the entire range spread across four states.This is…
Lucknow: The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has instructed UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) to implead Adani Power Limited (APL) as a party in its petition seeking approval for procurement of 1,500 MW power under the Design, Build, Finance, Own and Operate (DBFOO) model. The power is to be sourced through coal linkage under the…
Lucknow: The promise of basic sanitation and hygiene at Lucknow University remains unfulfilled, with essential amenities neglected across the campus, particularly in washrooms. Coincidentally, the World Toilet Day was observed on Nov 19. A reality check by TOI across several departments revealed that women’s washrooms have deteriorated to what students describe as ‘unusable.’ Filthy floors,…
Lucknow: Children suffering from serious bone cancers will now receive complete treatment — from chemotherapy to complex limb-saving surgeries — at the paediatric orthopaedics department of King George’s Medical University. Until now the department only handled benign (non-cancerous) bone tumours in children below 18 years, and those diagnosed with life-threatening malignant tumours were referred to…
BENGALURU: Luma AI has raised $900 million in Series C funding led by HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund-backed AI company developing one of the world’s largest compute clusters, as the Palo Alto startup accelerates its effort to build multimodal artificial general intelligence capable of understanding and simulating the physical world.The round, also backed by AMD…
Lucknow: UP minister Baby Rani Maurya inaugurated the Parent–Anganwadi Conference (ECCE Day) at the Ramchaura Anganwadi Centre in Sarojini Nagar Block. Anganwadi workers and parents of enrolled children participated in the event.In her address, she highlighted the crucial role Anganwadi centres play in ensuring nutrition, growth monitoring, and activity-based pre-school education for women and children….
MUMBAI: Strong gains in index heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank on Thursday propelled sensex to within half a percentage point of its all-time high peak of 85,978 points, recorded nearly 14 months ago. Sensex closed the session 446 points up at 85,633 points, its fourth consecutive day of gains. At Thursday’s close, while sensex…
Lucknow: Are you fond of chrysanthemum blooms and want to add new, unseen, colourful, easy-to-grow and highly floriferous chrysanthemums to your garden? A visit to CSIR National Botanical Research Institute’s Chrysanthemum and Coleus Flower Show to be held on Dec 20 and 21 will help meet that gardening goal.Four new varieties will be on display…
Indian and Nasa space scientists have captured fresh images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and confirmed that it has all the characteristics of a “comet” while dismissing some astronomers’ theory that it could be an “alien ship”.The scientists from Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) under the Department of Space have captured interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is…
