Mortar Shell destroyed along LoC in Poonch
MENDHAR/JAMMU, Aug 21 (Agencies): The Army on Friday detected and destroyed safely a live mortar shell found along the Line…
After 30 years, SC acquits 2 accused of taking Rs 20 bribe
NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Agencies): Thirty years after they were accused of taking a bribe of Rs 20 to issue…
Govt announces panchayat poll process in Ladakh to fill ‘democratic vacuum’, district council polls next | India News
Panchayat poll process in Ladakh announced SRINAGAR: A day after a meeting between Ladakh representatives and officials of ministry of…
US ambassador Sergio Gor in Ladakh, may meet Dalai Lama in first trip since Galwan clash | India News
US ambassador Sergio Gor in Leh SRINAGAR: A day after meeting Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar,…
Ex-SC judge Subhash Reddy to lead probe into action on CJP Parliament march | India News
Former SC judge R Subhash Reddy to head 5-member panel to probe Jantar Mantar clashes NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday…
SC upholds broad definition of industry, only for pending cases | India News
SC retains broad definition of ‘industry’ NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench on Thursday settled a decades-old debate over…
2 of the judges on bench fault procedure for 2005 referral | India News
2 of the judges on bench fault procedure for 2005 referral NEW DELHI: Two of the nine-judge SC bench –…
‘Can Standard 6 be spared 3-language plan this year?’ asks SC | India News
SC asks CBSE to consider one-year reprieve on 3-language policy; bench debates whether English is ‘indigenous’ NEW DELHI: Supreme Court…
After 30 years, SC acquits 2 accused of taking Rs 20 bribe | India News
Bribe demand unproven, Rs 20 note no proof: SC acquits 2 NEW DELHI: Thirty years after they were accused of…
CARA to tweak rules to boost regulatory system | India News
One of CARA’s key focus areas is stepping up adoption of children with special needs NEW DELHI: Central Adoption Resource…
Vande Mataram row: Amit Shah asks people to rally against Congress | India News
Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states New Delhi: Upping the ante against…
Tit for tat: India removes Pak high commission queue liners | India News
Encroachment removed outside the Pakistan high commission in Delhi (Credit: Rajesh Mehta) NEW DELHI: Indian authorities removed queue liners outside…
Personalised cancer vaccine takes step closer to market | India News
NEW DELHI: A personalised cancer vaccine has shown encouraging results in a large Phase-3 trial of patients with high-risk melanoma…
Nabin meal row: Congress post fabricated, says BJP | India News
Congress’s post on BJP president Nitin Nabin ‘fabricated’ NEW DELHI: A day after Chhattisgarh Congress posted on social media pictures…
Use medical tourists’ money to treat poor Indians: Panel | India News
Panel pitches cross-subsidy: Corporate hospitals urged to use rich-patient revenue to fund poorer patients’ care NEW DELHI: Revenue earned from…
SC faults UP Gangsters Act, says it is prone to misuse | India News
SC flags ‘serious flaws’ in UP Gangsters Act, warns of misuse against innocents NEW DELHI: Pointing out various flaws in…
Rahul Gandhi asks Congress to monitor party netas’ social media stands | India News
Rahul Gandhi asks Congress to track leaders’ social media push on social justice issues NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi…
Find out who your MP is: Canada’s Portage College asks protesting Indian students to approach politicians for work permit woes
Indian students protesting in Canada after they were denied a work permit. Canada’s Portage College has come up with a…
Manchester synagogue terror attack: Iraqi national charged over failure to disclose information
The attack took place at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. A 49-year-old Iraqi national has been charged in connection…
In 2002, New Mexico began one of America’s largest native-fish restoration projects; more than two decades later Rio Grande cutthroat trout had returned to 120 miles of streams
A major conservation effort launched in 2002 has restored New Mexico’s official state fish to more than 120 miles of…
First time in 100 years, North American river otter spotted in the Bronx River: ‘I could hardly believe what I was seeing’
North American river otter spotted in the Bronx River after 100 years. By the early 1990s, river otters became a…
‘I am deeply sorry for the harm caused’: Indian-origin hospital CEO takes responsibility for massive drug mix-up at a Nashville hospital during routine surgeries
4 people were given wrong medications at a hospital in Tennessee. The Indian-origin CEO apologized for the error that allegedly…
Tasmania spent 28 years removing invasive carp from two lakes; after 49,301 fish were taken out, the state declared carp functionally eradicated and trout began bouncing back
Invasive Species: Why Are Asian Carp a Problem? An intensive 28-year eradication campaign has eliminated common carp from two major…
Billionaire Bill Ackman donates $400 million to brain research: shares heartbreaking story of daughter’s coma, says he wants cure, not Nobel Prize winners
Bill Ackman commits $400 million to brain research after daughter’s brain hemorrhage Billionaire Bill Ackman and his wife, Neri Oxman,…
In 1990, Utah used the world’s largest rotenone treatment on Strawberry Reservoir; over 99% of fish biomass vanished and the rebuilt fishery later produced 715,000 catches a year
In August 1990, Utah wildlife officials carried out one of the largest chemical fish-removal projects in fisheries history, wiping out…