JDU SLASHES MUSLIM CANDIDATES TO ONLY 4 AS AGAINST 10 LAST TIME
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state. The four candidates are among the 44 names announced in the second list released by Bihar’s ruling party Thurssday […]
SC HEARING ON SIR INCONCLUSIVE, ADJOURNED TO NOV 4
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) June 24 directive for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi is hearing the matter. The petitioners have raised concerns that the SIR process permits […]
18 IN THIRD BJP’S LIST TO COMPLETE 101 TALLY
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party late Wednesday night released the third list of 18 candidates in Bihar to complete its tally of 101 candidates allotted to it in the seat-sharing distribution. Earlier in the day, the party had released its second list of 12 candidates while 71 names were released on Tuesday. The BJP […]
NITISH GETS 5 SEATS THAT CHIRAG PASWAN WANTED
NEW DELHI: A day after its ally BJP, the Nitish Kumar-led JDU has released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Bihar election. Five ministers in the current government have retained their seats. Three strongmen, including Anant Kumar Singh, also feature in the JDU’s first list. Four women candidates are on the first […]
DAYDREAMING GOOD FOR YOUR CAREER
NEW DELHI: Daydreaming can lead to epiphanies and greater career purpose, new research finds. The legendary tale of the business leader who had an epiphany that fundamentally changed his or her professional journey—turning hobbies, small observations, or frustrations into billion-dollar ideas—is well known. Julia Child writing her first cookbook at 50 and becoming a famous […]
GREEN CRACKERS ALLOWED IN DELHI-NCR ON DIWALI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the bursting of green crackers in Delhi-NCR on the occasion of Diwali (October 20) but within a restricted time limit. As per the top court’s order, firecrackers will be allowed only between 6 am and 7 am, and then from 8 pm to 10 pm and will […]
TELANGANA MOVES SC AGAINST HC STAY ON 42% OBC QUOTA
NEW DELHI: The Telangana government has approached the Supreme Court against a State High Court decision to stay two government orders which enhanced the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota in seats in municipalities and panchayats to 42%. “Petitioner have implemented the reservation based on the will of the people,” the State said in its special […]
SOLAR POWER ADDED IN TIBET
NEW DELHI: Renewables overtook coal as the globe’s biggest source of electricity in the first half of the year. One reason is that China added more solar and wind capacity than the rest of the world combined. Solar panels stretch to the horizon in Tibet and cover an area seven times the size of Manhattan. […]
CLOUD SEEDING IN DELHI LIKELY TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY
NEW DELHI: Cloud seeding, GRAP, and green crackers – they might appear to be isolated orders, but the goal is one – curtail pollution in Delhi. Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Wednesday announced that if the weather conditions are favourable, the government will conduct cloud seeding or artificial rain in the coming two […]
COMMON PAIN MED INGREDIENT COULD TREAT BLOOD CANCER
NEW DELHI: Salicylic acid, a commonly used skincare and pain medication ingredient, could now also be used to treat blood cancers, according to new research. Two millennia after Hippocrates used willow bark to ease pain and fever, researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Centre (Texas A&M Health) have transformed its key ingredient—salicylic acid—into […]
