Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday described the middle class as the growth engine of India and said nearly 500 cities are poised to emerge as the country’s next centres of economic activity.Participating in a panel discussion on ‘How to promote the rise of a new middle class’ at…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Ever since the 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was picked in India’s T20I squad, one question has dominated discussions among fans and experts: When will the boy from Samastipur, Bihar, make his India debut?The excitement started after Sooryavanshi’s sensational IPL season. He scored 776 runs at a stunning strike rate of…
‘Rao Bahadur’ box office collections day 1: Satyadev film opens with Rs 1.40 Cr India Net; Worldwide gross reaches Rs 3.11 Cr Satyadev’s latest release ‘Rao Bahadur’ has made its theatrical debut with a steady opening at the box office.The psychological drama collected Rs 1.40 crore in India net collections on its first day, according…
Several hundred people were already waiting on Friday evening outside the venue for the funeral of Iran’s slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei ahead of its opening to the public on Saturday morning.Khamenei will lie in state at the Grand Mosalla religious complex in Tehran until Monday, with doors scheduled to open at 6am local time…
Nearly four decades after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the abandoned reactor remains one of the most hostile places on Earth. Radiation levels that would prove lethal to most forms of life still linger in parts of the exclusion zone, making it an unlikely setting for biological discovery. Yet among cracked concrete, rusting steel and contaminated…
Venomous snakes generally have no interest in hunting people. Self-preservation, not aggression, drives most of their behaviour. Bites tend to happen by accident: someone steps too close, tries to move a snake out of the way, or corners it without meaning to. Travellers can cut their risk substantially with a few simple habits: stick to…
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Vijay Vardhan (AI enhanced image) SRK in his famous dialogue from the movie Om Shanti Om, says, “When you truly desire something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.” But it took Om Prakash Makhija another birth to make the impossible happen for him. Vijay Vardhan like wait of…
Orchids International School in Sion was declared illegal last month over lack of OC and govt recognition Mumbai: A month after being declared unauthorised by the education department, Orchids International School in Sion has resumed physical classes under a new name—The Institute of Learning and Education—leaving more than 400 students caught in a legal and…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has increased the compensation awarded to the kin of two deceased engineering students, noting that both were meritorious and had bright career prospects ahead of them when they died in an accident in Feb 2017.Vinay Khurana, a fourth-year engineering student at Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, and Prabhleen Kaur, a…
