Chennai: Six faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have been selected for Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) J C Bose Grant, a national research honour for senior scientists and engineers. The awardees are Prof Sujatha Srinivasan, Prof Thalappil Pradeep, Prof Deepa Venkitesh, Prof Jitendra S Sangwai, Prof Ramakrishnan Swaminathan and…
CBI has registered a case Ahmedabad: A man whose father died after undergoing treatment for a brain haemorrhage has approached the CBI alleging that a railway hospital clerk demanded a Rs 20,000 bribe to clear a medical reimbursement claim of nearly Rs 7 lakh.The CBI has registered a complaint against Biseswar Behera, a clerk at…
KOLKATA: Cops have issued a traffic advisory announcing major road closures, parking restrictions, and vehicular diversions across central Kolkata on Monday in connection with the state’s planned ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ rally that will be attended by CM Suvendu Adhikari. Traffic movement across key stretches surrounding the Maidan and adjoining commercial corridors will be regulated or…
Flyers alleged they were neither served refreshments nor given clear information about the repeated rescheduling. Pune: More than 100 passengers were left stranded for nearly five hours without any food or beverages on Thursday evening after a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet flight was delayed following multiple reschedulings.Anand Dubey, who was travelling with his wife, told TOI the…
Panaji: A North Goa court has directed that charges be framed against a man accused of raping a woman with an intellectual disability.The court ordered charges under Section 64(2)(k) of the BNSS for rape of a woman with a mental illness or physical disability, and under Section 92 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…
The weaker-than-expected employment report strengthened expectations that the Federal Reserve could have more room before increasing interest rates to curb inflation. US stock market today: Wall Street stocks traded higher on Friday morning, while Treasury yields declined after government data showed US employers unexpectedly eliminated 23,000 jobs last month.The S&P 500 advanced 0.4%, remaining close…
The release calendar for Tamil cinema is getting increasingly crowded, and Kavin and Nayanthara’s upcoming film Hi has now changed its theatrical plans. The film was earlier scheduled to arrive on August 14, setting up a box office clash with Suriya’s Vishwanath & Sons and Vishal’s Magudam, but the makers have pushed the release to…
Digital tools deployed to rebuild desert ecosystems after destructive fires California lost as many as 1.3 million Joshua trees when the 43,000-acre (17,400-hectare) Dome Fire burned through the Mojave National Preserve in 2020.According to the University of California, Berkeley, scientists at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE) have partnered…
Galileo Galilei, whose studies of falling bodies and accelerated motion laid the groundwork for the principle later demonstrated by Apollo 15 on the Moon. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Two people can be equally skilled at the same subject and end up producing very different amounts of lasting work. One treats the subject as a career,…
Confidence is something many parents want for their children. They want their child to raise their hand in class, speak to new people without shrinking back, try something difficult without immediately saying “I can’t,” and, perhaps most importantly, trust themselves.But confidence is rarely built through repeated reminders to “be confident.” It develops much more quietly-…
