Two Nobel laureates — one decoding the chemistry of life, the other the economics of nations — came together in Mumbai on Wednesday to talk about the world we’re building and the one we might lose. David MacMillan, who won the 2021 Nobel in Chemistry for pioneering asymmetric organocatalysis, and James A Robinson, the 2024…
New Delhi: A new learning period may soon be introduced across Delhi’s govt schools dedicated to improving students’ reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. The initiative, part of the National Education Policy, aims to strengthen foundational literacy and numeracy among students. To ensure its effective implementation, teachers have already been trained by the State Council of…
Mumbai: BEST Workers’ Union leader Shashank Rao announced that he will go on an indefinite hunger strike from Monday to highlight the demands of BEST drivers and other employees. If the BEST management still fails to implement the demands, the next line of action will be a strike by staffers, he warned.Rao said that his…
New Delhi: University of Delhi has improved its position in the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2026, securing an overall score of 68.5 — up from 61.9 last year — marking a 10.7% improvement. Despite a steep increase in the number of participating institutions, from 984 last year to 1,526 this year, DU continues to…
Mumbai: Uber on Wednesday launched metro ticketing for the first time in Mumbai, with Metro Line 1 tickets now available on the Uber app, an official from the aggregator firm announced. This follows recent launches in Delhi and Chennai announced earlier this year.“Now, commuters on Mumbai’s Versova–Andheri–Ghatkopar corridor will be able to discover, purchase, and…
New Delhi: A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a gold kalash from a Jain temple in northeast Delhi’s Jyoti Nagar.The man identified as Munna alias Salim is a resident of New Seemapuri and a habitual offender with four prior cases, including robbery, house theft, and Arms Act violations. Police also seized an…
Navi Mumbai: The Centre asked the Maharashtra State Wetland Authority (SWA) to take necessary action on priority and submit an action-taken report after environmentalists urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare Powai Lake wetland in Mumbai a Ramsar Site. Following a complaint to the Prime Minister from NatConnect Foundation over the fast-deteriorating state of the…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has convicted a man in a 2018 attempt-to-murder case, observing that the prosecution had proved the charges against him “beyond reasonable doubt.” Additional sessions judge Dhirendra Rana, in an order dated Oct 28, held that the nature of injuries suffered by the victim was “dangerous to life” and had been…
Mumbai: The Fee Regulatory Authority (FRA) has issued notices to 450 colleges across Maharashtra for failing to publish their approved fee structure on their official websites. Action will now be initiated against these institutions.Every professional college in the state is required to display its approved fee structure on its website — in Marathi, English, and,…
New Delhi: The house of an elderly couple in south Delhi’s Saket was allegedly burgled on Oct 31 while they were away, police said. The victims — a 75-year-old man and his 76-year-old wife — reported that the break-in occurred between 12pm and 6.30pm. The couple, who live alone, told police that around 20 items…
