Panaji: The directorate of art and culture will honour 12 eminent personalities with the prestigious Goa State Cultural Award 2025-26 for their contributions and achievements in fields such as music, drama, tiatr, folk art, bhajan, kirtan, craft, literature and painting.The awardees are Rajani Thakur, Agnelo Joao Fernandes and Ramchandra Naik (music), Gurudas Shirgaonkar (bhajan), Ramesh…
NEW DELHI: Wiser from the experience of disruptions caused by the war in West Asia, govt departments have started work on a series of measures to increase domestic resilience and reduce vulnerabilities caused by shocks, whose frequency has increased in recent years.From identifying 100-150 items for import substitution, to boosting the production of active pharamceutical…
Unconditional cash transfers just before elections may help fight anti-incumbency, but it bleeds the economy and has limited long-term gains in real welfare of the people A new pattern of freebie disbursement has spread its tentacles across the Indian polity, state elections at its core. Parties in govt, implement a plethora of freebies, just before…
Much of the attentionin the final will be on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The 15-year-old has already become one of the most talked-about young cricketers in the cricketing world after a remarkable IPL 2026 season and a call-up to India’s senior T20I squad. However, his tour of Sri Lanka has been a different challenge altogether. Dambulla’s slow…
The NSE report showed that Gujarat’s individual investor turnover declined by 6.1% month-on-month in May Ahmedabad: Gujarat witnessed a sharp slowdown in the addition of new stock market investors in May 2026, recording its weakest monthly growth in more than a year as market volatility and a prolonged bearish phase kept many retail participants on…
Gandhinagar: Minister of state for health Praful Pansheriya on Wednesday chaired a meeting to plan the proposed Spine and Sports Injury Centre. The minister said that a sum of Rs 295 crore will be spent in setting up a world-class spine institute, sports injury and rehabilitation centre at Medicity.Quoting the minister, the statement said that…
Newly elected sabhadhipati Bamdeb Guchhait Tamluk: BJP on Monday officially took control of East Midnapore zilla parishad, ending 18 years of uninterrupted Trinamool dominance. The transition occurred smoothly despite TMC holding a numerical majority of 56 seats against BJP’s 14 out of a total 70 seats.Accepting moral responsibility for the recent poll debacle, incumbent chief…
‘Rubber girl’ and her anchor: Anvi with her proud father Vijay Zanzrukia. Having taken to swimming, her next goal is to qualify for Special Olympics 2027 When Anvi Zanzrukia folds herself into a yoga pose, audiences see only the body that bends with ease. What they do not see is where it began: a sleepless…
You’ll feel two speeds running inside you today. One part wants to move boldly, the other wants to lie down and postpone everything. That’s the Moon stirring restlessness while Mars pushes confidence. A strange mix, yes, but not a useless one.There could be a lack of energy in your body, but there is a firmness…
India suffered an injury scare during their Women’s T20 World Cup match against the Netherlands on Wednesday as off-spinner Shreyanka Patil had to leave the field after injuring her ankle while bowling her first over.The incident took place in the sixth over of the Netherlands innings. Shreyanka had bowled just one delivery when she hurt…
