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Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has elected Professors AS Raghavendra, an Institution of Eminence (IoE) Research Chair Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and P Prakash Babu, a Senior Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, to the Royal Society of Biology […]

Tehran: The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announced on Wednesday that the government will continue to restrict access to social media networks— Instagram and WhatsApp, which have been blocked for months due to the protest movement. The Iranian authorities imposed strict restrictions on the […]

The majority of the employees in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) show confidence in obtaining new job opportunities inside or outside their company, that offers flexibility and a higher salary, a survey by LinkedIn has found. The findings, which were released on […]

New Delhi: India has approximately 21 judges per million population, the government said in Rajya Sabha on Thursday, citing the sanctioned strength of the judiciary and census figures of 2011. In a written reply to a question, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said for calculating the judge-population […]

Hyderabad: Suspended Goshamahal BJP MLA T Raja Singh denied making any provocative speeches and asked the Hyderabad police which issued him a show cause notice to drop the same. The Mangalhat police had issued a notice to Raja Singh for a provocative speech he made at a rally in Mumbai on Sunday. […]

Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order an enquiry into the alleged tapping of phones of leaders of opposition parties, lawyers, journalists and activists by the YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh. The former […]

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday directed the state government to release the erroneously attached properties of certain persons as part of recovery proceedings initiated against Popular Front of India (PFI) workers in connection with the damage to public property, in violence, during a […]

Dehradun: The Special Task Force will soon file an appeal in the High Court against the bail granted by a lower court to the main accused in the paper leak of recruitment examination held by the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission. “The chief minister has issued directions […]

Kolkata: A judge of the special court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday, during a hearing on the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal, observed that former West Bengal education minister and ex-Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee was a […]

Hyderabad: A 21 year old man from Bihar was arrested in Konark Express for possessing ganja (weed) plants in his suitcase on Wednesday. At 10:45 am, sub inspector D Ramesh was inspecting the train when a man was found to possess a heavy suitcase. According to the police press note, he was hovering […]

Islamabad: Pakistani police on Thursday arrested former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed from his home for accusing ex-president Asif Ali Zardari of plotting to kill former prime minister Imran Khan. An ally of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Ahmed is the chief of Awami […]

New Delhi: The Congress party has decided to hold nationwide district level protests on Monday, February 6, in front of the Life Insurance Corporation office and the State Bank of India office here over the Hindenburg report. “The government can’t jeopardize the hard earned money of the […]

Abu Dhabi: A 48-year-old Dubai-based Indian expatriate from Bangalore won the Dubai Duty Free (DDF) weekly draw for the second time on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The winner of the draw Amit Saraf— won a Mercedes Benz S500 car, with ticket number 0115 in Finest Surprise Series 1829, which he […]

Hyderabad: In view of the Formula E-Race, the following traffic diversions are likely to be imposed at NTR Marg from 5 February to 6 February partially and from 7 February to 12 February completely. The traffic diversions will be implemented on a requirement basis to facilitate smooth commuting in […]

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court directed the police not to take any coercive action against actor Paresh Rawal till Monday in connection with an FIR filed by CPI(M) West Bengal secretary Mohd Salim whereby it was alleged that he made derogatory comments about the Bengali community. The court […]

Hyderabad: The Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project (KDWSP) phase-2 which is supplying fresh water will be disrupted as part of Strategic Road Development Program (SRDP) works on Saturday and Sunday. These works will however be done without disturbing the construction of flyover which is going on […]

New Delhi: Embattled billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday spoke publicly for the first time since his ports-to-energy conglomerate publicly battled a short seller’s accusation of stock manipulation and accounting fraud, saying the abrupt move to withdraw a fully-subscribed share sale at his […]

London: Rishi Sunak marked his 100th day in office as the first non-white British Prime Minister on Thursday with a slick new video for social media pledging to deliver change, amidst multiple challenges, including spiralling inflation. The UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister took charge […]

New Delhi: National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Vice Chairman Arun Halder on Thursday said cases of atrocities against Dalits are on the rise in Tamil Nadu and accused the state government of not taking any action in these matters. The NCSC has written a letter to the Tamil Nadu […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday demanded an impartial investigation under the supervision of the Supreme Court or a joint parliamentary committee to probe the charges raised in the Hindenburg report against the Adani Group. A joint opposition raised the Hindenburg report in both the Houses of […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has introduced new features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to its Teams Premium, to make meeting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered. The new features aim to make meetings more intelligent, personalised and protected – whether it’s one-on-one, […]

New Delhi: Meta has said that it took down over 22.54 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 12.03 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in December 2022 in India. Between December 1-31, Facebook received 764 reports through the Indian grievance […]

San Francisco: After laying off 11,000 employees, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now wants 2023 to be the “year of efficiency”. In his quarterly earnings call with analysts late on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that “I just think we’ve entered somewhat of a phase change […]

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu during a meeting with a Zambian delegation led by Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia Nelly Butete Kashumba Mutti, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar during a meeting with a […]

Chennai: The Vengaivayal incident in which human excreta was found in an overhead water tank supplying drinking water to a Dalit colony in Vengaivayal, Pudukottai district has become a blot on the Tamil Nadu government. Even after the incident was reported on December 21, the culprits have not been […]

New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday met Shiromani Akali Dal president Parkash Singh Badal and MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal here, and discussed the upcoming Lok Sabha polls with them. A statement from the BSP said the leaders met at Mayawati’s residence in New Delhi, and […]

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday said that Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena should not stop Delhi government school teachers from going to Finland on a training programme by unconstitutionally misusing the law. Sisodia said that on the one side there is the […]

Hyderabad: The officials of the State Minorities Welfare Department along with the local public representatives visited the Mecca Masjid and inspected the renovation and conservation works on Thursday. B Shafiullah, Director Minorities Welfare along with the Charminar MLA Mumtaz Ahmed Khan and […]

Mumbai: As the Adani Group battles its current crisis on multiple fronts, the Maharashtra Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and residents of Dharavi on Thursday raised questions over the fate of the ambitious redevelopment project for Asia’s biggest slum. In end-November 2022, the state government […]

New Delhi: There has been no decision “as of now” on the implementation of a uniform civil code in the country, the government informed Rajya Sabha on Thursday. In a written reply, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said the government had requested the 21st Law Commission to undertake […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday lamented that nobody was taking action against hate speeches despite its orders, and observed that the top court will be left “embarrassed again and again” if it is asked to give further directions to curb such statements. The court’s […]

Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center has been ranked first in the Middle East and 20th globally, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. This is according to the Brand Finance’s 2023 ranking of the best healthcare institutions in the […]

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), which are counted among the noted business schools in the country, have faced a budget cut this year with the Centre reducing their grant by half. The top institutes, however, believe that the move might hurt new IIMs but not the second or […]

New Delhi: Over 9.79 lakh vacancies exist in the central government across 78 ministries and departments, with railways accounting for 2.93 lakh, defence (civil) for 2.64 lakh and home affairs for 1.43 lakh vacancies, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to a question from […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday invoked its extraordinary power under Article 142 to allow the adoption of a child after the delivery of a 20-year-old student who was carrying a 29-week unwanted pregnancy. A bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising justices P.S. […]

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has appointed senior advocate Vikram Huilagol as amicus curiae in the public interest litigation (PIL) it has initiated against illegal religious structures on public land. The division bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Ashok S Kinagi heard […]

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty-hosted Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) reality show ‘Kumite 1 Warrior Hunt’ is all set to air on MX studios from February 12. Suniel said, “MMA is truly an interesting sport. Discipline, determination, and dedication are at the very core of this […]

A diamond known as the Jacob Diamond, reportedly bigger than the Kohinoor in its uncut stage, was found lying forgotten in one of the shoes of the Sixth Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Mahboob Ali Khan at the Chowmohalla palace. After it was handed over to the Seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the latter […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that on the day of the Union Budget on Wednesday, the Union government virtually was on the verge of collapse because of the share market crash. “The government was on the verge of collapse. Desperate calls were made to […]

Hyderabad: Openly defying his gag order, suspended Goshamahal BJP MLA T Raja Singh took a dig at the Telangana government and city police for issuing him a show cause notice over his provocative comments made at a rally in Mumbai last week. The Mangalhat police issued Raja Singh the notice after […]