Pay up Rs 15L: 208 medicos get notice for skipping rural service
Bengaluru: As many as 208 MBBS students who did not register for the one-year compulsory…
India Repatriation Flights: US, Israel attacks Iran: Scheduled, charter flights to be used for repatriation | India News
Evacuation drive: AI brought back 143 cockpit and cabin crew members of its and Air India Express flights who had been stranded in Dubai NEW DELHI: India is working to repatriate thousands of travellers stranded in West Asian countries such as the UAE and Qatar since February 28, using a mix of charters and scheduled…
Iran Conflict: Middle East tensions: Global insurers exit Iranian waters as conflict deepens
MUMBAI: India’s trade and energy supplies face fresh risks after reinsurers and Protection & Indemnity (P&I) clubs announced cancellation of war risk insurance for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian waters, following an escalation in the Iran conflict. The cancellations, effective from this week, have left over 150 vessels stranded and disrupted a…
H-1B pause at Florida universities raises concerns for STEM and medical careers
Florida Universities Face H-1B Hiring Freeze: What It Means for Careers and Research Florida’s public universities are considering a pause on hiring international faculty through the H-1B visa program, a move that could reshape career opportunities and research across the state. The Board of Governors is set to vote on a one-year freeze that would…
Hindu Temple Uk: UK Hindu temple thrown lifeline by judge after council plans to sell its premises to a mosque
LONDON: A temple serving 18,000 Hindus in Peterborough and surrounding counties has been thrown a lifeline by a high court judge who has issued a temporary injunction preventing the sale of the building it is in to a mosque.The Bharat Hindu Samaj Temple (BHS) was established in the New England Complex in Peterborough in 1986…
Pahalgam Terror Attack: GoPro trail in Pahalgam terror attack leads to Chinese city, court allows NIA to seek Beijing help | India News
JAMMU: Fifteen months before Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists killed 25 tourists and a Kashmiri pony handler at Baisaran in J&K’s Pahalgam on April 22 last year, a GoPro action camera now in NIA custody as a “crucial” piece of reconnaissance evidence was first activated in China’s Dongguan, investigators told a Jammu court this week.The special court allowed…
‘We are getting signals’: Russia says India hints ‘renewed interest’ in more crude imports amid Iran crisis
Russia on Tuesday claimed that India has signalled “renewed interest” in importing larger volumes of Russian crude oil as disruptions mount in global energy supplies following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz after US and Israeli strikes on Iran.The Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil shipping chokepoint, has been facing disruptions after…
Who is Shreya Singhal? The IIT Madras BS graduate who turned a lockdown degree into a Harvard journey
The year 2021 upended classrooms across India. Lecture halls went quiet, attendance sheets turned virtual, and students were left staring at screens, wondering whether what they were learning would actually matter outside an examination hall.One such individual was Shreya Singhal. While studying for her on-campus computer application course, she was getting increasingly disillusioned. While the…
Bullet Train Project: Railways unlikely to seek extra loan from JICA to meet higher cost of Bullet train project
NEW DELHI: The railways is looking at bearing the nearly Rs 90,000 crore additional (83% escalation) cost for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project and won’t seek further loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project cost has increased from Rs 1.1 lakh crore to Rs 1.98 lakh crore because of delays and other reasons.The…
Congress announce first list for Assam polls; Gaurav Gogoi to contest from Jorhat | India News
GUWAHATI: In a sudden move, with the opposition alliance still not fully formed, the AICC on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for Assam assembly elections. The announcement has put Congress on a collision course with the regional party Raijor Dal, led by Akhil Gogoi, which had been hoping to secure some of…
US stock market: Wall street crashes amid Iran tension, Dow plunges 1,200 points as global sell-off deepens; crude oil surges
A fresh wave of global risk aversion battered Wall Street on Tuesday, with US equities sliding sharply as oil prices spiked again amid fears that the widening war with Iran could inflict deeper and more prolonged damage on the global economy, the Associated Press reported.The S&P 500 fell 2.4 per cent in morning trade and…