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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy. The summit, which will be held between June 13-15 at the luxurious Borgo Egnazia resort in Italy’s Apulia region, will likely be dominated by talks of ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Several leaders from across the world have arrived to attend the summit. US President Joe Biden, UK PM Rishi Sunak, France President Macron, Canada PM Justin Trudeau are among the attendees at the event. Here’s a glimpse at Italy PM Georgia Meloni welcoming the leaders from across the world- Italy PM Georgia…
Pradeep, father of 27-year-old Srihari who lived in the building that caught fire in Kuwait on Wednesday, which resulted in 49 deaths, was able to identify the body of his son only from the tattoo on his hand. Pradeep said he was called by the authorities to identify his son’s body kept in a hospital mortuary. “When I went there, I saw that the face was completely swollen and the nose was covered with soot. I was unable to identify him. I just could not… Then I told them that he had a tattoo on his hand. Based on that…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his historic third term, has reposed faith again in his most trusted advisers — Ajit Doval and PK Mishra. Mr Doval, 79, has been reappointed National Security Adviser. Mr Mishra retains his position as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. Mr Doval was appointed the NSA a decade ago when PM Modi swept to power with a massive mandate. He became the country’s key interlocutor for neighbouring countries. He also handled the external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The appointment was inevitable, given Mr Doval’s formidable reputation as the country’s premier…
Holding that the transgenders should be treated only as a special category irrespective of their caste, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to not bring them under either female or male category for education and employment. Justice V Bhavani Subbaroyan in an order passed on June 12, 2024 said in ‘every employment and educational avenues,’ the government shall prescribe separate norms for transgenders. The government shall direct all the state recruiting agencies to specify transgender as a special category and prescribe separate norms for their cut-off mark. The age relaxation open to other special categories shall…
Lukose had bought a mobile phone for his elder daughter who had scored excellent marks in the plus two (class 12) board exams and was going to bring it next month when he planned to come home to arrange her admission in a nursing course in Bengaluru. However, what reached his family on Wednesday was unconfirmed news reports that the building he was living in, in Kuwait, was the one that had caught fire which claimed at least 49 lives and injured many others. One of his relatives told a TV channel on Thursday that friends of Lukose called and…
Hours after PM Narendra Modi held a review meeting to assess the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, police in the Union Territory announced that 50 people have been detained in connection with Sunday’s terrorist attack on a bus in Reasi district in which nine people were killed and 41 were injured. As part of the major crackdown, the search operation to track down the terrorists has been expanded to cover the district’s Arnas and Mahore areas which were terrorist hotbeds between 1995 and 2005. “Significant leads have been uncovered, aiding in the identification and capture of those who may be…
Tamil Nadu has always done well with its own system of medical recruitment exam and should be exempt from the NEET-UG 2024 (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test), the ruling DMK’s MP Kanimozhi told NDTV today amid headlines generated by the all-India exam over allegations of paper leak. Calling NEET an “eliminating examination” and not an “eligibility exam”, she said the state has been suffering a lot since it was introduced. “We don’t have doctors in rural areas… the healthcare system is suffering because NEET was brought in,’ she added. Earlier today, the Centre told the Supreme Court that the scorecards…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Thursday scrapped the grace marks awarded to 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates at six centres across the country. These students can opt for a re-test on June 23, the results of which will be declared on June 30. Over 24 lakh students appeared in the NEET UG medical entrance exam, and the issue of grace marks became national headlines after students and coaching centre heads alleged irregularities and corruption within the National Testing Agency (NTA), which holds these exams, leading to protests across the country. Here is a look at what has happened so far:…
It’s time to revise your film calendars. Why, you ask? Because the release dates of Jigra, headlined by Alia Bhatt and Devara, starring Jr NTR, have been announced. Karan Johar, whose production banner Dharma Productions has backed both films, shared the big update on social media on Thursday. Sharing an update on Jigra, Karan Johar wrote, “Courage comes to play when one of your own is at risk. Starring Alia Bhatt and Vedang Raina – Jigra. Arrives in cinemas on 11th October, 2024.” About the Jr NTR-led film, Karan Johar wrote, “Prepare for an early arrival for an epic showdown…
The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always fascinated humans and we’ve been searching for alien life for some time now. However, despite decades of research, we still don’t have a concrete answer to the question of whether we are alone in the universe. Now, a Harvard University study has claimed that aliens could be living among humans secretly on Earth. A new paper by researchers at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program posits that ”unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), more commonly referred to as UFOs and extraterrestrial beings, could be living underground, on the moon or even walking among humans. The research also…