New Delhi: The government has fielded Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju to build consensus on the choices for the Lok Sabha Speaker and Deputy Speaker post, sources have said. The senior BJP leaders, it is learnt, have spoken to top Opposition leaders — Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Samajwadi Party president
Julian Assange is en route to a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan. SYDNEY: Julian Assange is en route to a courtroom on the Pacific island of Saipan where he is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to a single criminal charge in a plea deal that will see him walk free and return
Assange is scheduled to appear Wednesday morning at a court in the Northern Mariana Islands. London: Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting for years to avoid extradition from Britain in connection with the 2010 publication of thousands of US classified documents. Here is a timeline of his legal troubles after he agreed to
Advay Misra credited his success to his habit of reading extensively New Delhi: India’s Advay Misra, an 11-year-old student from New Delhi, participated in the International Academic Championship and won the Science and Academic Bee Competitions at the Championships and was runner-up in the Geography Bee Competition. Held over three days from June 14 to
Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the city intimation slip for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) 2024. Candidates who have registered for the exam can visit the official website of the CTET to check their exam centre. The exam will be held on July 7, 2024 in two shifts for
This phenomenon was captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope. NASA regularly shares stunning images from our universe, leaving the space lovers mesmerised. Now, in its recent post, the American space agency gave astronomers and space enthusiasts their first view ever of jets of gas hurtling outwards from newborn stars and smashing into cosmic gas and
Kerala assembly unanimously passes resolution to change name of state. Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution urging the Centre to officially change the state’s name to ‘Keralam’. The Assembly passed the resolution for the second time because the Union Home Ministry, which reviewed the first resolution, suggested some technical changes. Chief
The senior Vembu worked as a stenographer in the Madras High Court Zoho co-founder and CEO Sridhar Vembu paid tribute to his father who died at the age of 81. In a post on X, the Zoho CEO said that his father Sambamurthy Vembu was ailing for some time and he ”fought till the very
The startup founder shared that he started preparing for his dream 15 years ago. A startup founder who dreamt of becoming a permanent resident of the United States recently shared how he turned it into a reality. In a series of posts on X, Nahuel Candia, the founder of Rebill.com – a payments and subscriptions
Atishi’s hunger strike began on June 21 amid a prolonged heatwave in Delhi New Delhi: Delhi Minister Atishi has been hospitalised after her health deteriorated due to her indefinite hunger strike over the water crisis in the national capital, her party said on Tuesday. In a post on ‘X’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said
Julian Assange will be sentenced at a court in US. New Delhi: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is set to plead guilty to a single count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents, as part of a deal with the Biden administration. This agreement is expected to end Assange’s legal
The flight resumed the next morning with a different aircraft A Korean Air plane was forced to U-turn and make an emergency landing after dropping more than 25,000 feet due to a fault in the aircraft’s pressurization system. According to the Independent, flight KE189 departed Seoul’s Incheon International Airport (ICN) on June 22, 2024, at