New Delhi: A familiar scene plays out on Delhi’s roads almost every day. You’re driving along when suddenly the flow slows to a crawl, leaving vehicles to inch forward in a long line. The cause, as it often turns out, is not a barricade or diversion but something far more mundane — a vehicle stranded…
Pune: A constable attached to Chakan police lodged a complaint accusing two representatives of a Bengaluru-based company of duping him of Rs3.90 lakh on the pretext of selling him a design sewing machine for his wife’s tailoring business. The firm has its office in Mumbai where the constable contacted one of the representatives.Between April and…
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has entered into a strategic partnership with LSU Health New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO), US, to accelerate research and technology-led solutions in global healthcare. The collaboration seeks to combine LSU Health’s strength in clinical and translational research with IIT Madras’s track record in engineering, informatics, and innovation.The agreement…
NEW DELHI: Birds have continued to die at the Delhi zoo, which is shut since Aug 30 due to bird flu. On Wednesday, the zoo reported two bird deaths, which were later confirmed to be cases of bird flu. One avian death was reported on Friday of suspected H5N1 infection. Since Friday, nine more birds…
Pune: The Baramati City police are searching for the manager of a restaurant for duping his employer of Rs35 lakh by way of misappropriation of funds over the last six years.The manager mentioned bogus customers in the register and claimed that they did not pay the bills. As the number of such customers was higher,…
MUMBAI: The pandemic lockdown of 2020 silenced traffic, stilled factories, and briefly cleared India’s skies. But what seemed like a pause in human activity became, for scientists, a once-in-a-lifetime laboratory. An international team led by IIT Madras has now turned that natural experiment into breakthrough insights that challenge long-held assumptions about how tiny airborne particles—known…
NEW DELHI: The state of internal roads in the city has received little attention over the years. With money tight and no specific budget head under which roads can be redeveloped, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi hasn’t been able to have the existing roads re-carpeted for a decade now. The funds allocated for the purpose…
Pune: Educators from the CBSE board in Pune have said that the introduction of Open-Book Assessments for Std IX from the 2026-27 academic year will lead to making examinations more relevant to real-world challenges. They said the decision will promote conceptual clarity, critical thinking, and application-based learning over rote memorisation. However, the success of the…
MUMBAI: In the war against superbugs, time is both ally and enemy. Conventional antimicrobial tests take two to three days to tell doctors which antibiotic can save a patient’s life. By then, many are already placed on broad-spectrum drugs—an emergency shortcut that often fuels the very resistance it seeks to fight. Now, researchers at IIT…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), defending herself over her alleged “derogatory” comments against union home minister Amit Shah. “Idiots don’t understand idioms,” Moitra said, insisting that her remarks were purely idiomatic and had been deliberately twisted by the police. An FIR has…
