India’s Parul Chaudhary and Annu Rani clinch gold medals in women’s 5000m and javelin throw events respectively as the track and field athletes claimed a total of 6 medals on Day 10 of the Asian Games in Hangzhou. It was the second medal for Parul at the Games as she earlier claimed a silver...
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The recently released caste survey in Bihar may have mixed implications for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. While it allows him to claim credit for the exercise’s success and potentially gain political advantage, the survey also reveals that his own caste, the Kurmis, only make up 2.87% of the state’s population. This vulnerability opens him...
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India has expressed its concerns to the UN climate body regarding the unfair use of certain provisions in the Paris Agreement, which it claims deny fossil fuel development for developing countries. It argues that developed countries continue to invest heavily in fossil fuel infrastructure whilst burdening developing nations with emission reduction responsibilities. India also...
Read MoreThe ministry of education (MoE) on Tuesday has issued draft guidelines to schools for enhancing sensitivity, understanding, and providing support in case of reported self-harm. The draft for Understand, Motivate, Manage, Empathise, Empower, Develop (UMMEED) guidelines comes at a time when record students preparing for engineering and medical entrance exams in coaching hub Kota...
Read MoreThere will be no opening ceremony for the 2023 ODI World Cup, TOI has learnt. The last time there was an ODI World Cup in the sub-continent, in 2011, there was a grand opening ceremony in Dhaka.
Read MoreBulandshahr police arrested three people for allegedly being involved in the production and sale of counterfeit degree certificates and mark sheets purportedly from various private universities, officials said on Tuesday.
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