World’s longest high-altitude bi-directional Zojila tunnel nears breakthrough in J&K The strategically important Zojila Tunnel project has crossed a major milestone, with the two ends of the tunnel now connected to form a single 13-km-long passage beneath the Zojila Pass.Being built by the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) at a cost of…
The latest round of fighting between Israel and Iran appears to have eased, but reports suggest tensions between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have intensified in recent days.However, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, has played down claims of a rift, saying the two leaders share a decades-long…
The microscopic yeast that could survive in association with a 5,300-year-old body feels unlikely, almost speculative. Yet the frozen remains of Ötzi, the Copper Age “Iceman” preserved in the Alps and housed in a controlled museum chamber in northern Italy, have provided scientists with an unexpected testing ground for that possibility. Over decades of study,…
Federal data reveals a sharp divide in how the tech companies are approaching the H-1B visa program. According to a report by Business Insider, while Google, Meta and Amazon have cut back on the filings for new hires, AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and chipmaker Nvidia are expanding their use of the program. Out of…
England’s captain Ben Stokes (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) NEW DELHI: Ben Stokes’s future as England Test captain is under serious doubt after he was involved in a nightclub incident in Chelsea following England’s win over New Zealand at Lord’s. The ECB has launched an investigation into the actions of Stokes and teammate Gus Atkinson after both…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre and CBSE on a plea by the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), alleging “large-scale irregularities and deficiencies” in the newly introduced On-Screen Marking system. A vacation bench of Justices Neena Bansal, Krishna and Madhu Jain sought responses from the department…
NEW DELHI: CBSE on Monday defended the functioning of its post-result services portal, stating that more than 1.6 lakh candidates had submitted requests for verification and re-evaluation between June 2 and June 7 (the window for the purpose), even as several questions regarding the review process and the ongoing On-Screen Marking (OSM) controversy remain unanswered.In…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was extremely disappointed on Monday to find that a man — arrested as a 28-year-old in Nov 1983 for shooting dead a person — waited for more than four decades in the Allahabad high court for a decision on his appeal against conviction and a life term awarded by a…
NEW DELHI: Buffeted by political drift and marginalisation of its key pillars, INDIA bloc on Monday decided to meet every two months to enhance cohesion in its functioning to counter the BJP onslaught. Its next meeting in Aug in Hyderabad will discuss an “organisational structure” for the common platform.Taking stock of the state of the…
NEW DELHI: Noting that a delay in declaring results may derail the process of admission of students in West Asian countries to colleges, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to take effective steps to announce Class XII Improvement Examination results at the earliest and asked it to present a…
