Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan NEW DELHI: For the first time, government has carried out a performance assessment of ministries on various administrative parameters, including delays in clearing of files, grievance redressal and responses to Cabinet proposals. Cabinet secretary T V Somanathan, on Thursday, presented the ranking of ministries and departments on each of these…
An S-400 air defence system The S-400 is the linchpin of the Indian air defence architecture, as was demonstrated during Operation Sindoor. The system can fire a missile at an aircraft as far as 400 kms away and can therefore control vast swathes of airspace. The system was able to shoot down a large Pakistani…
Photo credit: X/@visegrad24 United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled the country’s long-awaited Defence Investment Plan, backed by a £298 billion defence budget over the next four years, including an additional £15 billion above last year’s spending review settlement.The plan focuses on strengthening Britain’s military capabilities through major investments in drones, artificial intelligence, autonomous…
Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool (AP) US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) said that several arrests were made into the alleged vandalism of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He alleged that the vandals severely damaged the recently renovated Pool, claiming that a 250-foot-long gash was carved…
NEW DELHI: Poll results show Congress saw a notable number of Muslim candidates register victory in the assembly elections, with 18 out of 19 party MLAs in Assam being Muslims. Kerala’s victorious UDF has 30 Muslim MLAs, with eight from Congress and the rest (22) from its ally IUML. The two winning Congress candidates in…
Top stocks to buy (AI image) HSBC has initiated its coverage of SRF with a buy rating and the target price at Rs 3,390. Analysts said SRF was one of India’s largest chemical manufacturing companies, with 50% of its revenue coming from overseas. Improving fundamentals in specialty chemicals and performance films to drive a 26%…
Centre pushes Bengal to fast-track PM-JAY, HPV vaccination (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday pushed West Bengal to speed up rollout of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, HPV vaccination and TB elimination programmes, while assuring full support to strengthen the state’s healthcare infrastructure.At a virtual review meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash…
Scientists found a special protein in moss. This protein helped plants grow upwards and move from water to land millions of years ago. It allowed them to divide cells differently and build shapes. Without this protein, our world would lack trees and flowers. This discovery sheds light on plant evolution and how life on land…
We’re all pretty good at curating our lives. We say the right things at dinner parties and post the “correct” version of ourselves online. But your gut instinct? That thing is a bit harder to program. Your first, split-second instinct usually says way more about your current headspace than any carefully crafted sentence ever could.For…
NEW DELHI: More than seven years after the Centre informed Parliament that it was consulting states on the creation of an All India Medical Service, a proposed national cadre of doctors on the lines of the IAS and IPS, the plan remains under consideration with the Union health ministry still awaiting responses from states and…