Mumbai: The death by suicide of IIT-B student Sahil Wakode has triggered more than just a debate over academic rules, student distress and institutional accountability. In conversations on campus and across social media, it has exposed what some see as a deeper faultline within the institute and on IIT campuses, between sections of the STEM…
New Delhi: An alleged shooter linked to Gogi-Deepak Boxer gang was arrested after an exchange of fire with Delhi Police in north Delhi’s Wazirabad in the early hours of Thursday.Police said a joint team of Special Task Force (STF) and North district’s Anti-Narcotics Cell had received information about the movement of an armed gang member….
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has quashed a 2014 FIR alleging bribery against a judicial officer and a court bailiff, holding that continuation of criminal proceedings would amount to an abuse of the process of law.The case involved Jatin Shah, then principal senior civil judge at Dhandhuka, and court bailiff Dipakkumar Raval. The FIR was registered…
Teachers noted that election-related duties, training programmes, and other official assignments have repeatedly disrupted regular teaching since June Pune: : Teachers assigned to special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are being given time away from classrooms, reducing teaching hours for municipal and zilla parishad (ZP) school students between Sept 21 and 30.The revised school…
Based in Slovenia, goalkeeper Som Kumar trains with the national team in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Panama coach Thomas Christiansen was pleasantly surprised to see Ryan Williams in the hotel lobby and stopped to chat for a while, before his pre-match media interaction on Thursday.The two have known each other from their time in England. Christiansen coached…
The woman told the tax authorities that the property was bought as an investment for future security. (Image for representative purpose only) What if you use your proceeds from long-term capital gains to buy a property owned by your spouse? Is that tax avoidance? In one such case a woman bought her husband’s property from…
Animesh Kujur, Gurindervir Singh The Asian Games enter Day 6 in Nagoya with India set for another busy day across multiple sports and several medal opportunities.Shooting will offer India an early chance to add to its medal tally, while canoe sprint and weightlifting will also feature medal events involving Indian athletes. Athletics will close the…
Govinda thanks Diljit Dosanjh for calling him ‘legendary’; says, ‘Maine kaha tha ki ye ek din world-level star banenge’ Veteran actor Govinda has thanked Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh after the latter called him “legendary”. The actor said he had predicted Diljit’s rise to global stardom when he first met him and wished him even greater…
A major property deal that began more than a century ago with a grieving widow turned a huge private wilderness in North Carolina into one of the most important public conservation achievements in American history. In May 1914, Edith Vanderbilt agreed to sell 86,700 acres of valuable mountain forest from the private Biltmore Estate to…
Sometimes, the hardest part of liking someone is not knowing where you stand with them. A delayed reply can suddenly feel loaded. A slightly different tone can make you wonder if something has changed. And even when the relationship is going well, a small part of you may still be waiting for the other shoe…
