MUMBAI: Computer science continues to dominate the imagination of India’s best engineering aspirants, but the first round of IIT seats preference for 2026 shows another branch quietly clawing its way back into favour: civil engineering.The shift was the most dramatic at IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi. At Powai, civil engineering opened at an All India…
Agartala: The only Bengal link of the Nationalist Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI), oddly, is its Howrah address. Interestingly enough, the six-year-old Tripura-based party, registered in Howrah’s Sankrail, is now tipped to be BJP‘s biggest coalition partner with 20 MPs.TDP has 16 MPs in Lok Sabha and JD(U) 12.Formed in 2023, the party’s election symbol…
Mumbai: The Sion Road Over Bridge (ROB) moved a step closer to completion over the weekend, with Central Railway (CR) undertaking night blocks to launch girders for one carriageway of the structure. The work is part of the project to lay the 5th and 6th lines between CSMT and Kurla, a corridor upgrade aimed at…
New Delhi: Delhi’s major higher educational institutions, including IIT Delhi, AIIMS Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia and Ramjas College, have featured prominently in the work of the Supreme Court-appointed National Task Force (NTF) examining student suicides and mental health concerns on campuses across the country.The task force, which has visited 30 institutions across…
Tamil Nadu produces more than half of the country’s electric two-wheelers No account of India’s electric-vehicle (EV) transformation is complete without Tamil Nadu. The state produces more than half of the country’s electric two-wheelers and around 40% of its total EV output, making it the undisputed hub of the electric-mobility manufacturing ecosystem. Long known as…
Patna: IAS officer Sanjeev Hans, who is being searched by the Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) in connection with the alleged tender scam, has written a four-page letter to SVU ADG Pankaj Kumar Darad questioning the FIR lodged against him.Hans claimed that the case was registered without sufficient evidence and is based on allegations similar to…
Bokaro: A 26-year-old home guard allegedly jumped into Garga river after running out of a counselling session at the Women’s police station in Sector-I here on Sunday. Police, with the help of locals, rescued him.Badal Mahli, a resident of Telo, and his 23-year-old wife were called to the police station for counselling over an ongoing…
US-iran reach agreement live Updates: अमेरिका-ईरान के बीच ऐतिहासिक शांति समझौते पर सहमति बन गई है, जिस पर आगामी शुक्रवार को स्विट्जरलैंड में औपचारिक हस्ताक्षर होने की उम्मीद है. बताया जा रहा है कि इसके बाद तेहरान परमाणु कार्यक्रम और अन्य मुद्दों पर अगले 60 दिनों तक विस्तृत चर्चा का दौर चलेगा. पीस डील का…
Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum district branch of Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), Jamshedpur, celebrated World Blood Donors Day by organising blood donation camps at three locations – Red Cross Bhawan, Sakchi, Jal Jyoti Foundation, Baliguma and at Prakash Castings, Industrial Area, Adityapur.A record 365 units of blood was collected at these blood donation camps, which…
Brazil’s Raphinha, left, and Morocco’s Noussair Mazraoui go for the ball during the World Cup Group C football match between Brazil and Morocco in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, Saturday, June 13, 2026. (AP Photo) Morocco made FIFA World Cup history on Sunday by becoming the first team to field a starting XI made…
