India’s UN envoy P Harish (File Photo) India on Monday abstained in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a draft resolution on Afghanistan, with its envoy to the UN noting that a “business as usual” approach is unlikely to deliver outcomes which the global community envisions for the Afghan people.The UNGA adopted the Germany-introduced…
CHENNAI: Electric vehicle penetration in three wheeler retails hit 60.2% in June 2025, up from 55.5% in the year-ago month. According to the latest auto retail data from the Federation of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, EV penetration in two wheeler retails hit 7.3% in June, up from just under 6% in the year ago period. EV…
A special revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls has triggered political friction before this year’s assembly elections, with opposition parties questioning the document requirements and timing. Supreme Court will hear petitions on July 10 challenging EC’s decision to carry out the exercise in the poll-bound state .Why the revision?EC says the special intensive revision (SIR) aims…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated that he played a key role in brokering a peace deal between several countries, including India and Pakistan, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.Trump claimed that his administration stopped “a lot of fights,” including India and Pakistan, Serbia and…
NEW DELHI: With over three crore filled enumeration forms – accounting for 38% of Bihar’s 7.9 crore electorate – collected as of 6pm Monday, EC estimates that more than 75% of the state’s voters would have submitted their completed forms in the next couple of days.EC Monday said the enumeration forms received have already crossed…
This one is the most obvious one. The most common place to feel thyroid pain is right at the front of your neck, just below the Adam’s apple. (more prominent in men) This is exactly where your thyroid gland sits, hence the pain. You may notice tenderness, soreness, or a sharp pain in this area,…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the States was “close to making a deal with India” as he released tariff letters to various trading partners, informing them of the reciprocal tariff rates that would be effective from August 1, 2025. “We are close to making a deal with India. We’ve made…
NEW DELHI: India’s education system continues to struggle with critical gaps in foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher training and financing, even as it shows consistent gains in gender parity, school completion rates and digital infrastructure. As per the 2025 Unesco SDG 4 scorecard, the country remains off-track in upper secondary and tertiary participation, lags behind…
NEW DELHI: There has been a nearly 20% increase in toll collected – around Rs 21,000 crore – through FASTag on national and state highways in the first three months of the current financial year, compared to Rs 17,280 crore in the corresponding period of 2024-25, as per National Electronic Toll Collection data.Around 80% of…
KOLKATA: Candidates specified as tainted in the 2016 Bengal’s School Service Commission (SSC) panel (hirings) will not be allowed to participate in a fresh school recruitment process for 35,726 vacancies, Calcutta high court held Monday and directed SSC to cancel applications by such candidates. SSC had earlier submitted a list of ‘tainted candidates’ before the…
