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NEW DELHI: Desperate, last-minute attempts are being made to halt the execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, scheduled for July 16 in Yemen, with the intervention of senior religious leaders both in India and Yemen. The efforts are being led by Sufi scholar Sheikh Habib Umar bin Hafiz, at the behest of influential Indian Sunni…
Rahul Gandhi; Dharmendra Pradhan NEW DELHI: A political tussle erupted in Odisha on Tuesday after the college student who had attempted self-immolation over alleged sexual harassment by a senior faculty member, succumbed to her injuries.While opposition parties Congress and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) blamed the “BJP system”, the ruling party hit back by asking the…
Air India plane crash (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The preliminary report into the crash of the June 12 Air India AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad continues to draw flak. Now, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) has warned against coming to “hasty conclusions”. The report, whose details were known to a section…
Leading oncologists, nephrologists and NGOs shone the spotlight on preventive healthcare over merely curative options in a session titled ‘Rethinking CST in healthcare: Preventive, inclusive and scalable’.Dr Sultan Pradhan of CanCare Trust stated that mortalities and morbidities would not reduce unless more resources were invested in preventing diseases like cancer. He said communities themselves, not…
Tech and policy push enables faster adoption of ESG mission India is turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges into opportunities, using technology, policy, and innovation to address energy consumption, sustainable construction, and supply-chain vulnerabilities. At a panel on ‘Tech for Good: Using Innovation to Solve Real-World Challenges,’ industry leaders described how constraints are driving…
Kotak Mahindra Bank managing director and CEO Uday Kotak (File photo) Kotak Mahindra Bank founder and non-executive director Uday Kotak has pitched India’s 2 percent mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spend as a global benchmark, calling on international companies to follow suit.“Why can’t we have the world’s corporations give half a percent of their profits…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tribute to veteran marathon runner Fauja Singh, 114, who was killed in a road accident in Punjab.“Fauja Singh Ji was extraordinary because of his unique persona and the manner in which he inspired the youth of India on a very important topic of fitness. He was…
Asia’s largest sal forest spread across 900sqkm in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum hides death beneath its green pall RANCHI/JAMSHEDPUR: Gunfire didn’t ring out in the forest. It cracked with the weight of an elephant’s scream. A six-year-old female collapsed near a stream, leg mangled, bleeding into the mud. Four days later, a 15-year-old bull dropped dead…
6 death-row convicts await J’khand high court verdict for over 3 years. HC reserved verdicts in early 2022, yet to pronounce.NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented judicial inaction causing anxiety and uncertainty to those under the shadow of death sentence, the Jharkhand high court had reserved verdicts more than three years ago on appeals filed by…
HC urged the chancellor and the state government to ensure regular appointments to the posts without further delay KOCHI: In a setback for the Kerala governor, the high court on Monday dismissed petitions challenging a single bench decision that declared ‘illegal’ the appointment of two temporary vice-chancellors for Kerala University of Digital Sciences Innovation and…
