Amir Khan Muttaqi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: A press conference by Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi on Friday drew attention not for what was said, but for who wasn’t in the room. Women journalists were notably missing from the event, which was attended by only a limited number of reporters.The interaction,…
Bengaluru: Prof Kanishka Biswas from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, has been honoured with 2025 TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science in Physical Sciences, given by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Unesco.The annual award, instituted in 2020, honours scientists below 45 years of age who are living and working…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking pan-India guidelines for governing social media intermediaries with respect to suspension and blocking of accounts.The apex court allowed the two petitioners to withdraw the plea and told them that they were free to seek any other remedy available in law before an…
PATNA: Less than a month ahead of polling for Bihar assembly elections, three functionaries from JDU and one from the LJP (Ram Vilas), including former Purnia MP Santosh Kumar Kushwaha, joined the RJD on Friday, report Manoj Chaurasia.Kushwaha was among the few netas credited with reviving JDU’s presence in Seemanchal region of the state. He…
NEW DELHI: Why should people facing trial in petty cases to heinous crimes, like murder or rape, be denied right to vote given the golden legal principle that presumes a person to be “innocent till found guilty by a court of law”.A PIL asked this question in Supreme Court on Friday and said because of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over large number of deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh due to intake of contaminated cough syrups manufactured by a Tamil Nadu-based pharma company but refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe by an expert committee into the incident and steps for prevention of…
India players celebrate after scoring against Singapore on Thursday Not everything went India’s way in the third-round clashes of the AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifiers.Reduced to ten men early in the second half after Sandesh Jhingan was sent off just after resumption, India were a minute away from a second consecutive loss, and almost out…
Barely 4% of Indians have access to palliative care On the eve of World Palliative Day, palliative care experts have drawn attention to “passive violence” implicit in the dismal access that Indians have to basic pain relief. Forty years after palliative care came to India, it is estimated that barely 4% of citizens have access,…
BHOPAL/NAGPUR: Locals and lawyers Friday angered by the deaths of 23 children in Madhya Pradesh screamed and lunged at Ranganathan Govindan and demanded death penalty for the 75-year-old as the owner of Tamil Nadu-based Sresan Pharmaceuticals was brought to court in Chhindwara. Ranganathan has been arrested over the deaths, 20 of them in Chhindwara alone,…
