- Thursday, April 24, 2025
MORE than 3.69 million tourists, Indians as well as foreign nationals, visited 18 heritage sites in Gujarat last year, the state government has said. Among these destinations, the four UNESCO World Heritage Sites alone attracted more than 1.29 million tourists, said an official release on Thursday (17), adding that the…
AUSSIE pacer Josh Hazlewood smiled wistfully as he ran past a dumbstruck Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer after dismissing him with a climbing delivery in the channel just outside the off-stump. The moment had two layers of significance to it. It was the third time Hazlewood had the number of…
INDIAN students in the US are grappling with a growing threat of deportation as authorities cancel F-1 visas over a range of issues - from participation in pro-Palestinian protests to minor legal infractions like violating traffic rules. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has collected 327 reports of visa revocations…
THE GOVERNMENT has clarified that it is not mulling to levy GST on unified payments interface (UPI) transactions above ₹2,000 (£17.66). The finance ministry said the reports that the government is considering levying Goods and Services Tax (GST) on UPI transactions over ₹2,000 was false and clarified it has no…
FORMER West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh married party colleague Rinku Majumdar in a private ceremony in Kolkata on Friday (18). Dressed in traditional Bengali wedding attire with a 'topor' on his head, Ghosh, along with his wife, appeared before the press following the rituals and sought people's blessings. "I…
IT SERVICES giant Infosys has fired 204 trainees at its Mysuru campus after they failed to clear internal assessment tests, according to media reports. The company emailed the affected trainees on Friday (18) to inform them that they had failed to clear the 'Generic foundation training' programme. An affected trainee…
FOUR people died and several others are feared trapped after a four-storey building collapsed in Delhi's Shakti Vihar area early Saturday (19), officials said. Around 22 people were allegedly trapped under the debris when the building collapsed, police said after reaching the spot. So far, 14 people were rescued and…
DELHI UNIVERSITY (DU) professor Apoorvanand Jha claims that the university administration has advised him to submit the text of his proposed lecture at an academic event in the United States for travel approval. There was no reaction available from the DU administration. Jha has called the move "unprecedented", saying it…
FORMER RAW chief A S Dulat has dismissed media reports that former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah had "privately" suggested that he would have helped in the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in 2019 had he been taken into confidence as "bunkum". Neither the National Conference…
AN INDIAN-ORIGIN doctor has been convicted by a US federal jury for his participation in conspiracies to commit health care fraud by giving medically unnecessary prescription medications to patients and unlawfully distributing controlled substances. Neil K Anand, 48, of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, conspired to submit false and fraudulent claims to Medicare,…
