New Delhi: Highway commuters won’t have to stop to pay user fee at national highway toll plazas by 2026-end as the govt rolls out the multi-lane free flow (MLFF) system, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. He added that the FASTag annual pass launched in Aug, which allows private vehicles to…
CLAT 2026 counselling: With the CLAT 2026 results declared on December 16, 2025, the Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs) has opened the admissions counselling process for five-year integrated Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) law programmes. All eligible candidates who have qualified in CLAT 2026 have been invited to participate in the centralised counselling process…
New Delhi/Dhaka: India summoned Bangladesh high commissioner Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday to express strong concerns at the deteriorating security environment in Bangladesh. In a statement, MEA said its attention was drawn, in particular, to activities of some extremist elements who have announced plans to create a security situation around the Indian mission in Dhaka, report…
Some business stories announce themselves loudly. Others unfold slowly by visas, code, and long years of compounding effort. Jyoti Bansal’s career belongs to the second category.Born and raised in a small town in Rajasthan, Bansal did not arrive in the United States with venture backing or family networks. He arrived on an H1-B visa, with…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday modified its earlier order restraining Delhi and NCR authorities from taking coercive action against “end-of-life” vehicles – 10-year-old diesel and 15-year-old petrol vehicles – and said the reprieve would apply only to BS 4 or BS 6 emission norm-compliant vehicles.This order will impact over 14.7 lakh BS 1…
The December 13 shooting at Brown University killed two students and injured nine. Image: AP The December 13 shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has pushed one of America’s most elite campuses into a grim national statistic. Two students were killed and nine others injured when gunfire erupted inside the Barus and Holley…
New Delhi: Asserting that “51 cartons of Jawaharlal Nehru papers” were formally taken back by the “family” in 2008 from Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (then Nehru Memorial Museum and Library), culture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat lashed out at Congress asking its senior leader Sonia Gandhi “why have these papers not been returned despite multiple…
November US jobs report shows rising unemployment and steady private payroll growth for Fed US unemployment rate: The US unemployment rate rose to 4.6 per cent in November, reaching the highest level in more than four years, in a sign of continued weakness in the labour market. The increase came despite the economy adding 64,000…
NEW DELHI: India is expected to have at least five indigenously designed and developed small modular reactors (SMRs) under the Nuclear Energy Mission by 2033.In a written reply in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Union minister Jitendra Singh said the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has already initiated design and development work on the 200 megawatt electrical…
More than ten ongoing projects aimed at strengthening classroom instruction and school based social services in low income communities are set to stop after the federal government abruptly cancelled tens of millions of dollars in education grants late last week. The decision came just two weeks before the next round of scheduled funding was due….
