Politics

NEW DELHI: Hosting Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Rubio, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Quad’s focus remains on the Indo-Pacific, with global issues like supply chain resilience, connectivity choke points, manufacturing and resource concentrations also on the agenda.In their opening remarks Jaishankar said: “As maritime democracies, pluralistic…

LUCKNOW: With the tenure of gram panchayats across Uttar Pradesh ending on Tuesday, the state government has issued an order allowing outgoing 57,694 gram pradhans to continue in administrative roles until fresh panchayat bodies are constituted.The Panchayati Raj Department clarified that the five-year term of gram panchayats elected after the 2021 elections will formally conclude…

AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale…

NEW DELHI: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a swift operation, 300 tourists have been evacuated stranded in a cable car in Gulmarg. The rescue operation is followed by a technical glitch resulted in halting of Gulmarg Gondola service at the north Kashmir tourist resort of Gulmarg on Monday.Sharing a post on X, he said,…

National Medical Commission NEW DELHI: In a major relief for foreign medical graduates (FMGs) and states struggling with shortage of internship seats, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has extended permission for Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship (CRMI) in recognised non-teaching hospitals till May 2028.The earlier extension was valid only till May 2026. Officials said the latest…

AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale…

NEW DELHI: BJP brass has stepped in to set its house in order in Karnataka, where its state unit has been plagued by discordant voices, turning its gaze to the only southern state where the party has been in power amid the view that it has not been able to effectively exploit the “anti-incumbency” sentiments…

NEW DELHI: SC on Monday accepted a fresh request from Reliance Industries Ltd, which questioned govt’s $2.81 billion demand for alleged pilferage of natural gas by RIL from ONGC block in KG Basin, to resolve the dispute bilaterally with the Centre.When the plea for conciliation was made by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, attorney general R…

NEW DELHI: Airlines flying in people to India who have been to Ebola hot zones in Africa, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, will now have to ensure such passengers file self-declaration forms (SDF) before arrival. Thermal screening will be done on passengers coming from the hotspots.In a move reminiscent of Covid…

NEW DELHI: Days after declaring that a technology boost would transform the country’s eastern and western borders into ‘smart borders’ amid intensified curbs on infiltration, home minister Amit Shah will be touring border areas of four states — Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tripura and West Bengal — over the next month to review their security.Shah will start…