NEW DELHI: Days after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the Bharatiya Janata Party would restrict Bengali food habits, including fish and meat, if it comes to power, the Trinamool Congress on Thursday sharpened its attack against Union home minister Amit Shah ahead of his 15-day visit to the poll-bound state.In a social…
KOLKATA: The 19 appellate tribunals are set to begin hearing appeals for the inclusion or exclusion of electors at Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation in Kolkata from Monday, four days after the electoral roll for the second-phase Bengal assembly polls was frozen on Thursday. The tribunals, constituted and notified by…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Tuesday appointed Chanchal Kumar, an IAS officer of Bihar cadre, as the new information and broadcasting (I&B) secretary, while designating Sanjay Lohiya as the secretary of department of financial services (DFS). In the bureaucratic reshuffle, Vir Vikram Yadav has been appointed director general of civil aviation (DGCA), replacing Faiz Ahmed Kidwai.Kidwai,…
BENGALURU: Isro and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have signed an MoU to collaborate on space medicine research aimed at supporting India’s future human spaceflight missions.The agreement will focus on studying how the human body responds to long-duration space travel and developing medical systems to keep astronauts healthy in orbit, Isro said…
Satya Nadella, chairman & CEO, Microsoft Almost two years after Google CEO Sundar Pichai declared a company-wide ‘Code Red’ over AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now deployed his own emergency overhaul, dubbed ‘Copilot code red’, according to a report by Benzinga. The report adds that Nadella is driving a sweeping effort to improve the…
Scientists have found a new species of mahogany in Zanzibar. This represents a significant finding for those working on rare forests in East Africa. But there is an ominous warning that only 30 adult trees of this new mahogany species exist in the wild. This means that the newly found plant has been critically endangered…
Flies in the house not only create a nuisance but also have the potential to become a hygiene problem at an alarming rate. From flying around food to spreading germs, flies are unwanted visitors to any house. While some people turn to chemicals to keep them at bay, these sprays also come with a strong…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has restrained Cartel Bros, an entity backed by actor Sanjay Dutt, from proceeding with the launch of its proposed whisky brand ‘Glenwalk Godfather’, following a trademark infringement plea by Devans Modern Breweries.Devans, which markets the widely-known ‘Godfather’ beer and also sells spirits under the same brand, argued that Cartel…
This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Senate Homeland Security chair Rand Paul join as the backlash grows against the Trump administration for the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members. Plus. House intelligence committee member Democratic Rep. Jim Himes joins. Source link
In 1932, the Government of Australia entered into an unconventional ‘war’ with an unexpected adversary, namely, a large population of approximately 20,000 emus, as reported in Australian Geographic. The emus would migrate from their traditional migratory range to the wheat-growing region of Western Australia after the economic collapse of the Great Depression caused many ex-soldier…