Latest News, Updates & Breaking Headlines
Private hospitals in Bengal shut door on Didi’s healthcare scheme KOLKATA: Patients enrolled in Swasthya Sathi, the outgoing Mamata Banerjee govt’s flagship universal health insurance scheme offering Rs 5 lakh annual coverage, are being refused admission or turned away from several private hospitals across Kolkata as the facilities wait to see whether the incoming BJP…
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to roughly 7% of its US workforce—about 8,750 people out of 125,000 American employees. It’s the first time in the company’s 51-year history it has done anything like this. In previous years, when Microsoft needed to cut costs, it reached for layoffs: more than 15,000 jobs went last summer alone….
‘No power is as costly as no power’ – Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the father of India’s nuclear programme, had once famously said. Several decades later, India’s nuclear energy ambitions have entered a decisive phase.On April 6, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu achieved criticality, achieving a sustained nuclear chain reaction…
Japan invites 1,000 Indian researchers under LOTUS Programme 2026 Japan has opened applications for the LOTUS Programme FY2026, offering nearly 1,000 Indian Master’s, PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to participate in funded research stays across leading Japanese universities and institutions.The initiative, part of the India-Japan Circulation of Talented Youths in Science Programme, is…
ONGC floated a tender for these rigs as it looks to accelerate hydrocarbon exploration under the government’s Samudra Manthan mission. (AI image) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation or ONGC is expected to spend about $18–20 billion on hiring deep-water drilling rigs for what could become its largest-ever oil exploration programme, according to people familiar with…
Former Donald Trump aide Joe Kent, who recently resigned as director of the US national counterterrorism center, made strong claims about Iran’s nuclear programme, saying Tehran was not close to becoming a nuclear power.Kent also said that former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, had been “moderating their nuclear program,”…
US intelligence chief says Iran not rebuilding nuclear programme, undercutting Donald Trump’s war rationale US intelligence has concluded that Iran has not tried to rebuild the nuclear enrichment capacity destroyed in last year’s US and Israeli strikes, a finding that cuts against one of President Donald Trump’s central claims for the current war, according to…
Canada has launched a programme to transition skilled temporary foreign workers to permanent residence, immigration minister Lena Metlege Diab confirmed, amid concerns that rising numbers of migrants are running out of legal status.The programme aims to grant permanent status to 33,000 workers in in-demand sectors over two years. It was first announced in November, but…
INDORE: A Valentine’s Day programme at Narsee Monjee College in Indore was disrupted after members of Bajrang Dal vandalised the venue on campus on Friday.According to police officials, the incident occurred while students were participating in the event organised within the college premises. Visuals from the spot showed damage to property and commotion inside the…
A new bill has been introduced in the US Congress that seeks to terminate the H-1B visa programme, in a move that comes amid a wider political push on immigration policy in the United States. Republican Representative Greg Steube of Florida has unveiled the Ending Exploitative Imported Labour Exemptions (EXILE) Act, which, if passed, would…
