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(Representative Image) As present CJ of Chhattisgarh HC, Justice Ramesh Sinha, is retiring on Sep 4, the Collegium recommended the appointment of Justice Krushna Ram Mohapatra as the CJ of Chhattisgarh NEW DELHI: The five-member Supreme Court Collegium led by CJI Surya Kant on Monday recommended the appointment of Justice Sanjay K Agrawal as chief justice of Rajasthan, whose acting chief justice S P Sharma has recused himself from judicial work following allegations regarding his integrity levelled by SC judge Sandeep Mehta.In a fast-paced development, the controversy sparked by Justice Mehta’s three letters within two weeks to CJI Kant seeking…
Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan, left, stands with batting partner Saud Shakeel (AP Photo) Former Pakistan cricketer Kamran Akmal has criticised the Pakistan Cricket Board’s decision to release seven players from the squad midway through the England Test series, arguing that the move could have a damaging impact on the remaining members of the team.The PCB confirmed on Monday evening that Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Ali Agha and Imam-ul-Haq were among the seven players sent back to Pakistan after the team’s disappointing results in the first two Tests against England.The board also announced seven replacements ahead of the third and final Test in…
New Delhi: Congress will organise state-level protest marches across the country against the FIR registered against Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and demand an FIR against BJP workers allegedly responsible for a “casteist purification ritual” in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, Congress MP Syed Naseer Hussain has said.In a post on X on Monday, Hussain said the party would resist “anti-Dalit, anti-minority and anti-constitutional agenda” of BJP governments.Also Read: Congress slams FIR against Rahul Gandhi, starts FIR drive on ‘purification'”@INCIndia is organising state-level Protest Marches across the country against the malicious FIR registered against Leader of Opposition Shri @RahulGandhi ji and…
New Delhi: An analysis of electric signals from the brain and stomach, along with clinical symptoms, may help predict outcomes within a week or 10 days of starting an antidepressant treatment, researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) and Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College have found.The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, could enable an earlier assessment of a patient’s response to the treatment, as opposed to the conventional four to six period typically required, they said.Depression is a mental health disorder marked by persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness and a disinterest in activities.…
US President Donald J Trump on Tuesday announced plans to lobby Congress for federal film and television production tax incentives aimed at stemming the flight of entertainment industry jobs from the United States to foreign countries.Trump shared details of his discussion with veteran actor and Hollywood Ambassador Jon Voight in his Truth Social post, emphasising a shared concern over the state of domestic film production.In his post, the US President argued that film and television production in the US has been “dissipated in its entirety,” with major projects migrating primarily to Canada and other foreign markets due to more attractive…
On August 21, a three-judge Supreme Court Bench led by the Chief Justice of India dismissed a petition and sought a fresh one in a case on minimum wages in rural employment guarantee programmes. The Bench lauded MGNREGA’s role in rural development. It probed whether the ‘Right to Work’ should be treated on par with Article 21, the fundamental right to life, sparking an important discussion on the constitutional foundations of this right.A guarantee under strainDespite its limited scope of only 100 days of work per rural household and chronic underfunding, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)…
Along a quiet stretch of road in Maine, engineers buried something most people would expect to see in a scrapyard rather than beneath their tyres: about 20,000 discarded car tyres. The unusual experiment was designed to tackle two problems at once. Maine’s roads face a difficult seasonal cycle, with winter freezing the ground and spring thaw turning it soft and unstable. Gravel roads can quickly develop ruts and potholes as vehicles pass over the weakened surface. At the same time, the state produces more than a million unwanted tyres each year, creating a growing waste problem with few easy outlets.University…
After just two hours of deliberation, a jury found 63-year-old Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of murdering rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996.BBC presenter Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty describes what it was like inside the courtroom when the verdict was read out. Source link
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is India’s preeminent digital payments system. In July 2026 alone, it processed 2,366 crore transactions — or around 7,600 transactions per second — in total worth nearly ₹30 lakh crore. Across the 2025-26 financial year, UPI handled 24,160 crore transactions worth ₹314 lakh crore, accounting for 85% of the country’s digital payment transactions by volume. According to the International Monetary Fund, UPI also accounted for a stunning 49% of all real-time payments worldwide in 2025.How does UPI work?Say Selvi has an account in Violin Bank and Shankar has an account in Flute Bank. Selvi wants…
The 30th edition of the BWF World Championships 2026 took place from August 17 to August 23 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, India. (TOI) NEW DELHI: At the recently concluded BWF World Championships, players weighed every word as carefully as their drop shots. But beyond the glare of the cameras, another contest was quietly unfolding. Standing a step behind the athletes were the interpreters, almost invisible yet carrying the immense responsibility of ensuring that nuance survived the journey from Mandarin, Japanese or Korean into English.At a World Championships, where every word can travel as quickly as…