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New Delhi: At 21% above normal, north India has so far recorded its wettest monsoon since 2013, the year of the cataclysmic Kedarnath flash flood. Worryingly, in Aug, the region has experienced by far the highest number of ‘extremely heavy’ rain events since the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began collating this data in 2021.Till Aug…

NEW DELHI: Nearly one in three school students in India now takes private coaching, with the practice far more common in urban areas, according to latest Comprehensive Modular Survey (CMS) on education released by govt. The findings sketch a system where government schools remain central in rural India while urban families increasingly prefer private schools…

Nagpur: The Army’s recruitment rally at Kamptee Cantonment, 20km off Nagpur, next month will include religious teachers — pandits, maulvis, granthis, priests and Buddhist monks — alongside Agniveers. The clerics will compete in physical tests including a one-mile race, followed by religious proficiency assessments in Delhi. Those selected will be inducted as Religious Teachers-Junior Commissioned…

US President Donald Trump opened a marathon Cabinet meeting at the White House with an awkward riff about attorney general Pam Bondi’s looks, before launching into a three-hour-and-16-minute stream of consciousness that lurched from tariffs to artificial intelligence.“I look at Pam. I would never say she’s beautiful, because that’s gonna be the end of my…

Mumbai: Enterprise retailers may soon find themselves in breach of India’s new data-protection regime. At present, many ask shoppers to recite mobile numbers at billing counters to enrol them in loyalty schemes or send digital receipts. Though customers may consent, the act of speaking such details aloud in a public setting exposes personal data, falling…

Rescue operations underway NEW DELHI: A section of the Ramabai Apartment in Virar East collapsed during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, potentially trapping around 15-20 people under the debris, eyewitnesses say.Rescue teams from the police, fire brigade, and national disaster response force (NDRF), along with ambulances, arrived at the scene immediately after the…

Donald Trump (left), PM Narendra Modi (Agencies) US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he personally intervened to stop a nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan during heightened tensions between the two neighbours, while Operation Sindoor was underway in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, earlier this year.Speaking during a cabinet meeting at…

New Delhi: Recalling PM Narendra Modi’s 2025 I-Day speech that flagged demographic changes in border villages caused by illegal immigration “as part of a deliberate design”, home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday urged the collectors of districts covered under the Vibrant Village Programme (VVP), chief secretaries of border states and central armed police forces (CAPFs)…

Harish Salve (File photo); Supreme court building New Delhi: Maharashtra, through senior lawyer Harish Salve, told Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Constitution empowers a governor or the President, not an assembly, to have the final say on a state bill. It made a five-judge bench led by CJI B R Gavai ask: “Is this…

New Delhi: Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday an inquiry into the disclosure by a judicial member of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma, that he was approached by “one of the most revered members of the higher judiciary of this country” to decide a case in favour of a particular litigant….