New Delhi: A last-minute change in plans will cost you dearly, as the railways have announced a revised rule linking refunds to the timing of ticket cancellations before the scheduled departure of trains. As per the new rule, passengers who cancel their tickets less than eight hours before departure will receive no refund, while cancellations…
Texas A&M University will shut down its women’s and gender studies program, revise the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and cancel six classes under a new policy that limits how faculty can address certain topics related to race and gender, university officials announced on Friday, according to the Associated Press.The decision follows months of internal…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand high court has ordered the release of a man who had been serving a life sentence in a 2003 murder case, after it found he was a juvenile at the time of the offence. Mobin, who spent over 13 years in prison, was declared a juvenile in conflict with law, rendering his continued…
NEW DELHI: In a move that is causing some concern to the industry and privacy advocates, govt has asked smartphone makers to mandatorily pre-install its Sanchar Saathi app on their devices. Govt says this is being done to strengthen cyber security on the devices and prevent tampering and spoofing of the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment…
Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav (Screengrab) In the run-up to this T20 World Cup, Suryakumar Yadav was asked about the all-attack approach he had instilled in the T20 team. India were on an impressive winning run and the question perhaps begged itself. But the captain immediately contradicted the journalist.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the Election Commission of “gaslighting citizens” after claims surfaced that marker pens were used to ink voters’ fingers during Maharashtra civic polls, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election.“Election commission gaslighting citizens is how trust has collapsed in our democracy. Vote Chori is an anti-national act,”…
KOLKATA/RAMPURHAT: Sunali Khatun, the pregnant Birbhum woman who was banished to Bangladesh as an illegal immigrant and forced to spend six months in a jail, gave birth to a son on Monday at a state-run hospital in Bengal. “For us, this is nothing short of a miracle. The child was born healthy despite Sunali being…
NEW DELHI: One year after the rollout of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand, the state government says concerns over privacy violations have been effectively addressed, with more than five lakh applications processed and not a single complaint reported.Officials said the absence of privacy-related grievances reflects the strength of the digital security framework built…
Vihaan Malhotra (ICC Photo) NEW DELHI: “Mujhe Virat Kohli jaisa banna hai. Main unke saath khelna chahta hoon [I want to become like Virat Kohli and want to play with him],” a nine-year-old Vihaan Malhotra told his coach Kamal Sandhu when he joined his Cricket Hub Academy in Patiala. Back then, the kid had no…
In a recently released statement, the Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association India (FORDA), an umbrella body representing resident doctors across government hospitals, questioned whether NEET PG 2025 should be read as an isolated examination failure or as an institutional collapse unfolding over months.“NEET PG 2025 will be remembered as the year an institution betrayed its…
