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...

Be it the 275 data entry operators in the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) or organic farmers, all of them have been holding press meets and staging protests, desperately wanting to be heard before the Assembly election is announced. The TNCSC Computer Operators’ Association — comprising 275 members who have been working on contract since...

2 min readMumbaiFeb 26, 2026 12:22 AM IST Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been directed to develop a dynamic monitoring system based on Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to track sources of air pollution across the city. Replying during Question Hour in the...

A rare husband-wife face-off on the Assembly floor added political intrigue to a policy debate in Meghalaya on Wednesday, as NPP MLA Mehtab Chandee A Sangma pressed Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma over delays in key livestock education projects cleared by the cabinet three years ago. Raising the issue during proceedings, the Gambegre legislator sought...

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old pregnant woman and her three young daughters were found dead with their throats slit inside their house in Prem Chand Park area of outer north Delhi on Wednesday morning. Police suspect the woman’s husband, who has been missing since early morning, and are investigating the motive behind the killings.Police suspect Anita’s...