New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday virtually witnessed the final breakthrough of a 1.5-km-long mountain tunnel of the bullet train project in Maharashtra’s Palghar district from Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. “This 1.5-km-long mountain tunnel is among the longest in Palghar district and is located between the Virar and Boisar bullet train stations….
Oklahoma: Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows stretched up the wall of a natural overhang of stone. They’re lit by a ferocious fire that’s been burning for…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed preparations for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Day celebrations and directed that the main state-level event be held at Rashtriya Prerna Sthal in Lucknow. The Uttar Pradesh Day celebrations are scheduled from January 24 to 26. According to an official statement, Adityanath said the celebrations should also be held at…
Indore: A laboratory test has confirmed that a diarrhoea outbreak, which has killed at least four patients and affected over 1,400 people in Indore, was caused by contaminated drinking water, officials have said. The test findings substantiated that a life-threatening drinking water supply system prevails in parts of Madhya Pradesh’s commercial capital, which has been…
Special Correspondent What began as an eligibility objection between Sportive CC and Charminar Cricket Club has now exposed a deeper, more troubling failure—the deliberate shifting of the question itself. This is no longer a routine club dispute. It is a test of whether cricket administration values process over convenience, and verification over haste. Yet, instead…
There comes a moment when neutrality stops being a virtue and begins to resemble complicity. Indian cricket—and by extension the Indian Premier League—has reached that moment with Bangladesh. The growing demand by Hindu religious leaders and civil society groups to bar Bangladeshi cricketers from IPL 2026 is not an eruption of irrational anger, as some…
New Delhi: Twenty-two acceptance of necessity (AoN) have been accorded by government authorities for induction of several DRDO-developed systems worth approximately Rs 1.30 lakh crore to be manufactured by Indian industries in 2025, officials said on Thursday. Addressing a gathering at an event, DRDO Chairman Samir V Kamat said the efforts of DRDO have given…
Jaipur: A global platform where startups and young entrepreneurs from Rajasthan can get funding and mentoring will be held in Jaipur from January 4-6, Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said on Thursday. Chairing a review meeting on the preparations of the Rajasthan DigiFest-TiE Global Summit 2026, Sharma said it is expected to draw over 10,000 participants,…
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has finalised 10,231 polling stations across the metropolis for civic polls to be held on January 15. In a release issued on Thursday evening, BMC said 4,386 of these will be located in government and semi-government buildings, 702 in cooperative housing societies, and 5,143 in private buildings. The polling stations…
Kolkata: The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer has issued a detailed set of instructions to all district election officers (DEOs) to facilitate the inclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups in the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a notification said. According to an official communication on Wednesday, the guidelines were…
