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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…
NEW DELHI: To deal with the upcoming Chhath rush, the railways is using real-time heat-mapping of 35 major stations to monitor heavy passenger movement, rushing standby unreserved trains close to these stations to clear the surge of travellers and creating holding areas for crowd control. These measures are based on passenger data from the festive…
In a shocking development, the National Education Association (NEA), the United States’ largest teachers union, reportedly sent an email to its roughly 3 million members that included a map erasing Israel entirely and labeling it as Palestine. The email, which provided resources for teaching about indigenous peoples, also linked to material defending Hamas’ October 7,…
BHOPAL: The MP SIT probing the Coldrif tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 kids from Chhindwara and three from other districts is examining the entire supply chain of the cough syrup — from procurement of raw materials to distribution of the contaminated drug — aiming to fix accountability at every stage. Investigators confirmed that…
Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi JAISALMER: Pakistan must stop supporting terrorism if it wants to “remain on the world map”, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi declared Friday, warning that India will not show the restraint it exercised during Operation Sindoor.Dwivedi’s address to soldiers near the Pakistan border in Anupgarh of Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district followed a…
H-1B restrictions are backfiring: Here’s how India became the new innovation hub The tightening of H-1B and L-1 visa policies under US President Donald Trump is reshaping global hiring strategies for American companies. Visa application fees have been raised to as much as $100,000, and further restrictions are under discussion in the US Senate, causing…
