Tensions escalated at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Saturday evening after a protest march by Left-affiliated student groups demanding an First Information Report (FIR) against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members led to clashes with police. At least 28 students, including top office-bearers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), were detained, while 6…
The impasse surrounding Indian football has hit the ecosystem hard with players, officials, administrators and support staff on the edge Panaji: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is not too pleased with the current impasse in Indian football and has called on all relevant parties to “act without delay in the best interests of Indian football…
Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday, triggered by America’s fresh sanctions on Russian oil companies.Brent crude futures jumped $3.03, or 4.94%, to $64.35 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude added $1.42, or 2.43%, to $59.92 after the settlement at 6 PM EDT (2200 GMT). Earlier, Brent had settled $1.27 higher at $62.59…
St Stephen’s College, one of Delhi University‘s premier affiliated institutions, has found itself in the midst of a fee controversy. For the academic year 2025-26, the college has asked its first-year students to pay the university and college fees separately, a so-called dual-payment system that appears to violate DU’s established single-portal payment rules. Even more…
Lucknow: Opening day of Deshaj 2025 filled Ram Manohar Lohia Park with traditional vibrance as over 300 folk artists from across the country performed on Saturday. Organised by Sonchiraiya Foundation, the two-day festival, now in its fifth year, was inaugurated by Padamshree Vidya Bindu Singh, Jaiprada Menon, Usha Awasthi, Yatindra Mishra and Malini Awasthi.In the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed US President Donald Trump‘s announcement of a comprehensive plan to end Gaza conflict.“We welcome President Donald J Trump’s announcement of a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict. It provides a viable pathway to long-term and sustainable peace, security and development for the Palestinian and Israeli…
Safeena Husain (File photo) NEW DELHI: India’s non-profit, Educate Girls, has been named a 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee — Asia’s premier honour — becoming the first Indian organisation to receive the prize. Founded in 2007, the group has worked across 30,000 villages to enrol more than 2 million girls back in school and support over…
NEW DELHI: A senior executive from Dutch semiconductor machinery company ASML has said that EU is inaccessible to European companies, while it is getting time and patient hearing from the Indian govt.Speaking at a ‘Competitive Europe summit in Brussels’, organised by digital platform Politico, Frank Heemskerk, executive VP of global public affairs at ASML, said…
Lucknow: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped from a wedding ceremony and later gang-raped by two juveniles in the Kakori area on Friday night. One of the accused, aged 16, was apprehended, and a search for the second accused is underway, police said.According to the police complaint filed by the girl’s mother, the wedding ceremony…
Rohit Arya, dead body arrival at JJ Hospital in Mumbai. Photo by Imtiyaz Shaikh MUMBAI: For three tense hours on Thursday afternoon, Rohit Aarrya held 17 children, a 75-year-old grandmother, and a studio staffer hostage inside a Powai recording studio. By evening, the standoff ended in gunfire — the children were rescued, and Aarrya lay…