Mumbai: A tilt towards application-based questions and conceptual evaluation has marked this year’s ICSE (Class 10) results, with schools across the city reporting stronger outcomes and a visible expansion of the high-scoring cohort.In Maharashtra, 30,393 students from 279 schools appeared for the examination, recording an overall pass percentage of 99.93%. Of these, 16,170 boys and…
From the Iliad to the Mahabharata , women have often been wrongly portrayed as catalysts of war. Atul Kumar’s Ambaa challenges this flawed notion and turns it on its head. Inspired by Aristophanes’ 5th-century BCE comedy Lysistrata , this satirical drama is reimagined for contemporary audiences. While Lysistrata shows women coming together to end the…
Chennai: Radiologists at a city hospital demonstrated that artificial intelligence can slash radiation exposure in lung cancer screening by up to 80% while preserving diagnostic accuracy needed to catch tumours early.The study of 179 patients at MGM Malar Hospital in Adyar, presented at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, found that scans enhanced with…
Bettiah: A special Pocso court in West Champaran on Thursday sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor. The court also imposed a fine of Rs66,000 on the convict, with an additional jail term of nine months and 20 days in case of non-payment. It further directed that the victim…
NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court on Friday rejected a petition seeking FIR registration against Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi over an alleged controversial “fighting the Indian state” remark.Justice Vikram D Chauhan passed the order while hearing a petition filed by Simran Gupta, who had challenged a Sambhal court’s earlier decision rejecting her…
Kolkata: Trinamool candidate Bratya Basu watch Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’ on Thursday while BJP’s Agnimitra Paul watched ‘Assi’ on an OTT platform on Wednesday, right after polling for Bengal’s two-phase elections got over. With the hectic poll schedule over, many candidates from Tollywood have found time to catch a film or two before the…
MUMBAI: The Worli police in Central Mumbai recently arrested an assistant commissioner of police rank officer in a case for allegedly flashing his private part in front of a nine-year-old girl at a garden in Worli. The accused has been sent to judicial custody.A police source said that they arrested the accused soon after getting…
You can see people moving from one gallery to another in groups, and then the groups become bigger by the end of the hopping trail as people build connections While art spills across the capital’s flyovers and hidden alleyways, there’s a distinct magic in stepping off the pavement and into a gallery. These aren’t the…
Chennai: Madras high court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu forest department to expedite steps to reunite an abandoned elephant calf in Sirumugai forest range of Coimbatore district with its herd to ensure the safety of the animal.“How long will it take to reunite it with its herd? You (forest department) have to expedite the…
Patna: B D Public School emerged as the champion of the ‘3rd Fr Gordon Murphy SJ Memorial Inter-School Basketball Tournament 2026 (U-19 Boys)’, defeating host team St Michael’s High School by 31-20 in a thrilling final round held on Thursday. Gaurav Kumar of the winning team was adjudged the Best Scorer of the Tournament as…
