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Two army personnel, including a Naib Subedar, were killed after their vehicle fell into a ditch in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district, a defense official was quoted as saying by PTI.The accident took place near Reddy village near the India-China border on March 7, when the vehicle was on its way from Gelmo to Tuksing…

New Delhi: NHPC has approved investment to develop the 260-MW Dulhasti Stage-II Hydro Electric Project (HEP) in Jammu and Kashmir. The project received environmental clearance in January this year. It may cost around Rs 3,200 crore and take 44 months to complete.In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Minister of State for…

Hamlet’s existential dilemma — ‘To be or not to be?’ — is finding an echo in Indian schools: banning or banning smartphones in classrooms.With the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu With the announcement of a ban on mobile phone use by students in all government and private schools since March and his…

Times of India’s ‘Let’s De-Stress’ campaign aims to start a nationwide conversation about digital stress, its consequences and practical ways to deal with it. The initiative aims to turn awareness of digital behavior into action, using science and technology to help individuals regain focus, productivity and mental well-being in an increasingly distracted digital world.The initiative…

New Delhi: To end unnecessary delays in appraising projects for environmental clearance (EC), the Union Environment Ministry has proposed setting up a central body — Standing Committee on Environmental Impact Assessment (SCEIA) — for each state/UT, which will appraise projects when state-level panels are ineffective. The idea behind the proposal is to ensure continuity in…

New Delhi: Home Ministers from states up to Bihar and Uttarakhand Amit Shah Leading the BJP’s push to keep the issue of infiltrators on the front burner is not only towards the upcoming assembly elections, particularly in West Bengal and Assam where it has a certain resonance, but also towards shaping a national agenda that…

Urge experts, policy makers to work on new training models New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday highlighted the growing importance of the care economy and telemedicine in strengthening India’s healthcare system, saying both sectors will play an important role in expanding services and creating new employment opportunities in the coming years.Addressing the fourth…

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Human Space Flight Center on Monday signed an agreement to collaborate on space medicine, opening the door to research into how the human body behaves in space – and how those insights could improve healthcare on Earth.The collaboration establishes a…

New Delhi: In a major blow to an organized illegal wildlife trafficking network, the MP State Tiger Strike Force, in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, on Sunday arrested the kingpin of the reptile smuggling racket, Tarak Nath Ghosh, from Kanpur, reports Biswa Mohan.Ghosh, part of a gang run by Chennai-based international wildlife trafficker…

New Delhi: The Congress party has nominated sitting Rajya Sabha member and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi and former MLA Vem Narendra Reddy as its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Telangana ahead of polls later this month.According to the Election Commission, polling will be held on March 16 and counting is scheduled…