Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has sought the support of chief ministers of 12 states against the conduct of the medical entrance examination NEET. The letter has been written with an aim to highlight “the need to put up a united effort to restore the primacy of state governments in administering the education…
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday said that it is important for India and Sri Lanka to work together to strengthen economic partnership and deepen the time-tested bilateral ties founded on the principles of mutual benefit, mutual understanding and a common purpose defined by good neighbourly relations.…
The fifth season of Bigg Boss Tamil went on air on Sunday with a grand launch event hosted by Kamal Haasan. With anchoring skills that he has perfected in the last five seasons and a strong undercurrent of intimacy that he has developed with the audience, Kamal introduced as many as 18 contestants on the opening…
In the narrow lanes of the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi, the centre of a famed silk-weaving industry, there’s little sign of the nascent economic recovery trumpeted by India’s policymakers. Sales of the heavily brocaded silk sarees made in the ancient city on the river Ganges are currently down 70% from the…
NTA ICAR AIEEA 2021: The National Testing Agency (NTA) today released the provisional answer key for the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR’s) All India Entrance Examination for Admission, AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF(PhD) on its official websites, nta.ac.in and icar.nta.ac.in. Questions, provisional…
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said. Vilks, 75, who had been living under police protection since the drawings were published, was…
American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, the award-giving body said on Monday. Their groundbreaking discoveries “have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can…
Three Class IX students of Puduchattiram Government Higher Secondary School near Rasipuram in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district have been dismissed after they ridiculed a visually impaired teacher while he was taking class on Friday. The students were allegedly making gestures mocking the teacher, dancing to a song and…
A Barbie doll version of Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has jetted off on a zero-gravity flight with the aim of inspiring young girls toconsider a career in space and science, technology, maths and engineering (STEM). Marking the Oct. 4-10 World Space Week, which this year celebrates women in space, toy…
Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman says creating the original score for the documentary-series House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths, directed by Leena Yadav and Anubhav Chopra, has been an unique experience. The Netflix docu-series traces the mystery behind India’s infamous 2018 Burari deaths, where 11 members across…