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…

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: 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…

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…