- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
THE Centre on Tuesday asked the UPSC to cancel the latest lateral entry recruitment, amid a row over reservation in the advertised posts. Union minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh wrote to Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) chairman Preeti Sudan and asked her to cancel the advertisement so that…
INDIA'S traditional PC market - comprising desktops, notebooks, and workstations - rose for the fourth straight quarter, according to market research firm IDC. There was a 7.1 per cent growth in shipments to 3.39 million units in April-June this year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal…
RAJINIKANTH’S 170th feature film, Vettaiyan, will be released on October 10 in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Kannada, according to an announcement made by the film's production company. Directed by TJ Gnanavel, known for Jai Bhim, and produced by Lyca Productions, the film features Rajinikanth in the role of a police…
BANGLADESH'S interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has alleged that Sheikh Hasina's "brutal dictatorship" destroyed every institution of the country during her decade-and-a-half-long reign when elections were "blatantly rigged." Briefing foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka for the first time on Sunday, 10 days after assuming charge as the chief adviser, the…
PAKISTAN'S jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has applied to become the next chancellor of Britain's prestigious University of Oxford, his party said. Khan, prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has just marked one year in prison on various charges from corruption to inciting violence that he said are politically…
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a nearly seven-hour visit to Kyiv this week, India has said it is willing to provide all possible support required to help find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), announcing Modi's August 23 trip, said it…
AUTHORITIES in Pakistan on Monday reported a suspected case of Monkeypox (mpox) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, taking the number of people affected by the virus to four. A 47-year-old resident of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), who recently returned to Pakistan from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, was admitted to Islamabad's Pakistan Institute of…
The much-awaited report of the Justice Hema Committee, the government appointed panel in 2019, comprises explosive accounts of harassment, exploitation, and ill-treatment being faced by women. "It has come out in evidence that certain men in cinema, who are well-known and well-reputed for their ability as artist, director or whoever…
INFOSYS co-founder NR Narayana Murthy said that rising population was a major challenge for the country, and India has not paid attention to population control since the Emergency period. Murthy said this during the convocation ceremony of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in Prayagraj, where he was the chief…
AUSTRALIA skipper Alyssa Healy has said it might not be right to go ahead with the women's T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in October as it would put a lot of pressure on the country which is still recovering from the large-scale violence and protests that left hundreds dead. The…
