A controversy erupted in the Rajasthan Assembly after BJP MLA Bahadur Singh Koli made remarks during the budget debate, comparing the state budget to the birth of a boy and a girl. Speaking in the House, Koli said the BJP government’s budgets were like giving birth to a “son,” while the Congress’ last budget was...

Ashwini Vaishnaw and Mahua Moitra NEW DELHI: The Modi government’s ambitious AI summit on Wednesday was overshadowed by controversy over Galgotias University’s contested displays of robotic exhibits, with Trinamool (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra calling the I-T minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to quit.Taking a sharp dig at the minister, who also holds crucial railway and information &...

Three persons died in a road accident in Alakhnur, near Raibag, in Belagavi district on February 18. Gireppa Kundrali, his wife Manjula, and son Aradhya, who were travelling on a bike from their village in Maharashtra to Jamkhandi, were crushed under a lorry. Officers from Haroorgeri police station visited the spot. The relatives of the...

India can become the innovator in the Global South as it leads the fight against climate change from the frontlines, said Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State of the United States of America and board member of the Clinton Foundation, during the Mumbai Climate Week on Wednesday. Calling for the need to shift resources from...

A major controversy has erupted at the India AI Impact Summit after Galgotias University was accused of presenting a Chinese-made robo-dog as its own indigenous innovation. The Noida-based institution faced intense social media backlash and political criticism, with Rahul Gandhi labeling the summit a ‘disorganized PR spectacle’. Following the row, the government ordered the university...

BENGALURU: A former employee of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been arrested for allegedly strangling his wife to death inside their apartment in Bengaluru, police said. The accused, identified as Nagesh Ishwar Rao, was taken into custody on Wednesday morning after the body of his wife, Sandhya Shri, was found at their residence...

A view of the Supreme Court in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Over a year after a High Court judge used explicit language to narrate a sexual assault on a minor girl in his judicial order, the Supreme Court has assigned the Director of the National Judicial Academy, Justice (retired) Aniruddha Bose,...

4 min readFeb 18, 2026 01:28 PM IST Over the past year, at least eight cases of illegal construction, including hotels, eateries, and houses, have been reported within protected areas around the sensitive archaeological sites of the Naneghat rock-cut caves and Shivneri Fort in Pune’s Junnar taluka. Officials of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)...

A senior Bihar-cadre IAS officer is at the centre of a political controversy. The Opposition in Bihar questioned how a civil servant flew his family on a chartered flight. However, a debate that should have centred around accountability and use of public money sank into the swamp of caste politics. The Opposition—the RJD and the...

Iran has temporarily closed parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints, as tensions with the United States escalate. Iranian state and semi-official media reported live-fire naval drills in the narrow waterway, with missiles launched from inside Iran and along its coast reportedly striking targets in the strait.The closure,...