The Centre on Thursday apologised before the Supreme Court over the controversial chapter on judiciary corruption in a Class 8 NCERT Social Sciences textbook. On its part, the court warned of possible contempt proceedings against the council chief over the incriminating content. “We would like to have a deeper probe. As head of the judiciary,...

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday slammed Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council, saying Islamabad must be “hallucinating” or living in “La-La land” if the nation finds it hard to believe that Jammu and Kashmir’s development budget is more than double the recent bailout package it sought from the IMF.India also rejected allegations made by...

YSRCP President Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy participating in a ritual at Sri Nandeeswara Swamy temple at Nandipalli in Pulivendula constituency on February 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement YSRCP leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday (February 25, 2026) visited Sri Nandeeswara Swamy temple at Nandipalli in Vempalle mandal, on the second day of...

2 min readFeb 26, 2026 08:30 AM IST India vs Zimbabwe T20 World Cup 2026 Match Playing 11: Suryakumar Yadav’s India will take on Sikandar Raza’s Zimbabwe on Thursday in Chennai. For the hosts, it is a must-win game. They have played some pretty decent cricket through the tournament, but their first game against South...

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has apologised for what it described as a “purely unintentional” inclusion of ‘inappropriate material” in a Class 8 Social Science textbook, after the Supreme Court sharply criticised a chapter referring to judicial corruption and ordered the book’s distribution to be halted. In a statement issued on...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday became the first world leader and politician to cross 100 million followers on Instagram, marking a new milestone in his global digital presence.PM Modi, who joined the Meta-owned platform in 2014, now has more than twice the followers of US President Donald Trump, who stands second with...

IVF centres were inaugurated at Gandhi Hospital and the Modern Government Maternity Hospital (MGHM) Petlaburj in late 2024 with services ranging from infertility evaluation to assisted reproductive technologies.  | Photo Credit: File Photo After multiple failed infertility treatments at private hospitals, a 30-year-old woman from Alwal here has delivered a healthy baby girl following in...

3 min readJammuFeb 26, 2026 04:13 AM IST The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday raided nearly half a dozen locations — including the residential premises of the brother of Jammu and Kashmir’s Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Kumar Choudhary in Jammu and Nowshera in Rajouri district — in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets probe. Surinder Choudhary...

Five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal are set to fall vacant, and the numbers in the state Assembly point to a seemingly clear outcome. There is no possibility of an alliance altering the arithmetic this time. In the previous cycle, four seats were held by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and one by the CPI(M)....

NEW DELHI: Defence and military experts, on Day 2 of DefSat2026 conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, intensified the strategic dialogue on building India’s persistent and resilient defence space capability, against the backdrop of rapid global transformation in space-based military infrastructure. With 1,602 space-based ISR satellites projected to launch globally between 2025 and 2030, the...