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NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Friday put traditional medicine at the centre of global health conversation, flagging launch of Traditional Medicine Global Library (TMGL) as a shared international platform to anchor ayurveda, yoga & other ancient systems in research, policy and evidence-based care.Addressing the closing ceremony of the Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine…
The government plans to incentivise states and districts to work closely with industry to identify and address local skill gaps, adopting a hyper-local approach to build a future-ready workforce, a senior official told PTI on Monday.Addressing the CII Smart Manufacturing Summit 2025, Secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Debashree Mukherjee said the…
The February 2026 Bangladeshi general election is no ordinary democratic exercise; it is a vote on the country’s political future and a crucial deciding point for India’s regional security. The street-led “Monsoon Revolution” of August 2024, which ended the 15-year rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, created a political vacuum that has fundamentally altered the…
AI-generated image (ChatGPT) Nepal has awarded a contract to a Chinese state-owned security printing firm to produce new banknotes across multiple denominations, a central bank official confirmed on Sunday.Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has selected China Bank Note Printing and Minting Corporation to design, print and supply notes of NRs 50, NRs 500 and NRs 1,000,…
NEW DELHI: A routine drive turned into a near-fatal ordeal for Rajan Sahni, a resident of Old Rajendra Nagar, after his navigation app led him into a swamp on Wednesday. Sahni, who was travelling with his brother, said he was on his way to visit his friend, Govind, near Pihani Chungi in New Civil Lines…
DEHRADUN: India has released a radically updated seismic zonation map under the new Earthquake Design Code, placing the entire Himalayan arc in a newly introduced highest-risk Zone VI for the first time, and reshaping the country’s understanding of earthquake exposure by showing that 61% of India now lies in moderate to high hazard zones, a…
Nepal’s central bank on Thursday unveiled new Rs 100 currency notes featuring a revised national map that includes the disputed Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Limpiyadhura regions, territories India has long maintained are its own. The move revives a years-long boundary row, with New Delhi previously denouncing Nepal’s 2020 map update as a “unilateral act” and warning…
NEW DELHI: Amit Shah’s pre-poll boast – “We will win more than 160 seats… It can be 180 also” – sounded-like a typical campaign bravado, the verdict proved otherwise. The NDA did not just meet expectations. It blew past them, finishing at 202 seats. With this sweeping mandate, one storyline stood above all: the BJP…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reviewed the progress of the Tata Electronics’ Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Jagiroad in Assam’s Morigaon district, calling it a key step toward positioning the state as part of the global semiconductor ecosystem by 2026.Accompanied by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the finance minister inspected the project site…
UGC busts fake university campuses across the country The University Grants Commission (UGC) has once again pulled the alarm on an unrecognised institution masquerading as a legitimate engineering college. In its latest public notice, the regulator warned students against the Institute of Management and Engineering, located at Kotla Mubarakpur in Delhi, for offering unapproved degree…
