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Panaji: A Mapusa court acquitted ex-deputy chief minister and former Goa Cricket Association president Dayanand Narvekar and his wife Sushma of forgery and cheating in a 16-year-old case involving their son’s birth certificate. It was alleged that they hatched a criminal conspiracy to benefit their son by showing he was born a year earlier, to…
NEW DELHI: The smartphone in your pocket is increasingly getting a ‘Made in India’ backstory – and so are many of the electronic parts that power daily life. India’s electronics manufacturing has grown sharply over the past 11 years, with production rising about six-fold and exports jumping eight-fold, govt told Rajya Sabha on Friday, adding…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday urged students not to view success in exams as the sole purpose of their education and said an individual’s character and temperament, and not just grades, determine success in life. “Education is not only for exams but for life. Exams are meant to examine oneself,” Modi said at…
New Delhi: India has agreed to allow EU banks to open 15 branches over four years, while binding foreign direct investment in insurance at 100%, the newly liberalised ceiling, in return for a more stable visa regime for its employees and professionals working in member countries.A relaxation on bank branches was not given to the…
NEW DELHI: Preeti Unhale, 51, completed 25 years with a donor heart on Jan 23, 2026, becoming India’s longest-living heart transplant survivor – a landmark considering that heart transplants were rare, donor awareness was limited and long-term survival remained uncertain when she underwent the procedure.Originally from MP, Unhale came to AIIMS in 2000 after exhausting…
MUMBAI: The death of a student by suicide at IIT-Kanpur on Tuesday again swivelled the spotlight on a mental health crisis on the campuses of India’s premier technical institutions: over a dozen young lives lost every year on average over the past five years.At least 65 students have taken their own lives across the Indian…
NEW DELHI: Having lived together for only 65 days after marriage, a couple, who fought a legal battle for over 13 years and filed 40 cases against each other in different courts, ended up in Supreme Court, which on Tuesday slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them for treating judicial forums as…
Hyderabad: Sajid Akram, the alleged 50-year-old terror suspect gunned down by Australian police after Sunday’s bloodbath on Sydney’s Bondi beach in which 15 people were killed, was identified Tuesday as an Indian passport holder who moved Down Under in Nov 1998 and had limited contact with his family since.Telangana Police and intelligence agencies reached out…
Mumbai: SBI plans to double its mobile banking customer base to 20 crore over the next two years from 9.4 crore with the launch of Yono 2.0, chairman C S Setty said on Tuesday. To help customers transition to the new digital platform, the bank will expand its in-branch digital support network to 10,000 floor…
NEW DELHI: Vehicle owners have coughed up around Rs 330 crore as penalty in past five years for not having a valid pollution under control (PUC) certificates, reports Dipak Dash. Rajasthan collected the highest amount at Rs 102 crore, followed by Delhi (Rs 78 crore), Kerala (Rs 54 crore) and Uttar Pradesh (Rs 17 crore),…
