NEW DELHI: As many as 20 candidates scored 100 percentile in the 2023 January session of JEE (Main) for admission to engineering courses, results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday night in a record...
NEW DELHI: Noting that India is home to about 60% of all Asian elephants, PM Narendra Modi on World Elephant Day on Friday reiterated India’s commitment to protecting the jumbos. The government, on the occasion, declared establishment of one more...
VATICAN CITY: Devasahayam Pillai, who embraced Christianity in the 18th century, on Sunday became the first Indian layman to be declared a saint by Pope Francis during an impressive canonisation ceremony here at the Vatican. Devasahayam was recommended for the...
THANJAVUR: For 93 years, villagers around Kalimedu in Thanjavur have attributed much of their well-being to participation in the Appar Swamy chariot festival. But the 94th annual run left them mourning the deaths of 11 people after the top of...
THANJAVUR: The temple chariot accident in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu that claimed the lives of 11 people happened when the people pulling the chariot tried to take it back to the Appar Swamy Mutt after the procession covered all...
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday said that there are reservations in the party over the entry of election strategist Prashant Kishor owing to his shifting political loyalties, but the party is open to his induction. “The Congress...
NEW DELHI: Pollster Prashant Kishor is learnt to have asked Congress to create a post of vice-president who will head the “election task force” to take care of poll management across the country, and who will be attached to the...
CHENNAI: A six-member police team is questioning late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's confidante V K Sasikala at her residence in Chennai’s T Nagar in connection with the Kodanad heist cum murder case. The police team headed by IG...
