[ad_1] Foreign secretary Misri (R) with Sun Haiyan of CPC Wednesday NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri stressed the need to take positive steps for improved Sino-Indian ties in a meeting with Sun Haiyan, vice minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) who is on a visit to India.Talks covered…
[ad_1] BENGALURU: If you have been stressing overmuch about AI hallucinations lately, maybe it’s time for the chatbot to see a shrink. “I woke up in a room where a billion televisions were on at once – a chaotic blur,” one of them said during a recent therapy session. Another confessed to ‘strict parents’ who…
[ad_1] Courts and state govts have banned Chinese manja but enforcement has struggled to keep pace with demand VARANASI/HYDERABAD/BIDAR: Razor-sharp Chinese manja – glass-coated kite string, banned but still widely used – sliced through necks and faces Wednesday, killing at least three people in UP, Telangana and Karnataka while injuring well over 100 across states…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that the classification and methodology of fixing fares of different classes in passenger train falls in the domain of “trade secret/intellectual property rights”, and therefore, cannot be disclosed under the Right to Information Act.This was disclosed while the CIC dismissed an application…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship, Jayant Chaudhary, and the chief minister of Delhi, Rekha Gupta, on Wednesday, inaugurated the ‘Campus to Market – Delhi Startup Yuva Festival 2026’ at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre.The programme is being organised by the Directorate of Training and Technical Education (DTTE) of…
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: Former J&K chief minister and PDP Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday denounced what she called “profiling of mosques” by police, saying it amounted to interference in religious affairs and was an attempt to humiliate Kashmiri Muslims. It’s Hindu temples that needed to be “profiled”, she said.“If religious places are to be profiled, then start…
[ad_1] JAMMU: Security forces on Wednesday intensified the ongoing anti-terror operation in Najote village in J&K’s Kathua district by extending the cordon to at least a dozen surrounding villages, officials said. Yet another such operation was launched in Rajbagh, also in Kathua, after a resident reported sighting two terror suspects.The cordon-and-search operation in Najote was…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Senior Indian Police Service officer Rakesh Aggarwal was on Wednesday appointed as the director general of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Aggarwal, a 1994-batch IPS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as Special Director General in the anti-terror agency. He had also been holding the additional charge of the DG,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday dedicated 81 new Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to the people of the national capital on Makar Sankranti, taking the total number of such centres in the city to 319. The new facilities were inaugurated in the Hari Nagar Assembly constituency. The expansion marks progress towards the…
[ad_1] A case has been registered after the Block Development Office (BDO) in Farakka, Murshidabad, was allegedly ransacked by a group of unidentified men on Monday afternoon, leaving a poll official injured. BJP MLA Gouri Sankar accused the ruling TMC Farakka MLA Manirul Islam of leading the vandalism caused at the government property.In a sharp…