The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences has said that its professor Deepak Dhar has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Dirac Medal, recognising his contributions to statistical mechanics and complex systems....
The BJP has taken up the cause of the national song, declaring that it deserves as much respect as national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" and advocating that all six stanzas of the song be sung instead of the traditional practice of limiting it only to two stanzas....
NeGD and AAERI launch AAERI Verify, a DigiLocker-integrated platform for secure, paperless verification of Indian students' documents for Australian universities....
Police used water cannons, lobbed tear gas shells, and lathi-charged job aspirants as they breached barricades and closed in on Jharkhand Assembly premises, protesting alleged irregularities in recruitment exams....
From The Hindu Archives, August 11, 1926: An “Englishman” cable dated London, August 8, says:- “The Daily Mail” says the latest scientific instruments exhibited at the meetings of the British Association bring nearer the discovery of the source of life, and a new source of power with a trigger to set it off and a boiler to control it. Some scientists foresee the day when an engine will be driven from London to Edinburgh on a handful of cobblestones....
The monsoon session, which began on July 20, has witnessed massive uproar over the past 16 days over the police crackdown on the students' protest in Delhi....
The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, when a snake bit six students sleeping in the hostel of a primary-secondary residential school in Gadchiroli's Japtalai village....
Prof Lanka studies soil moisture and land atmosphere interactions to improve drought prediction and monitoring, aiding agriculture and water resource management....
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh shared the video on X, expressing concern over the situation in Punjab and saying the state's youth "deserve better"....
Tarun Tejpal's daughter called the ruling by the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court a "miscarriage of justice", contrasting it with the time spent on the case by the high court and the trial court and the two opposite verdicts....
At least 24 girl students at a Kolkata school were rushed to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday night after they fell ill, an official at the medical facility said....
While legal experts differ on the scope of the government's powers and Meta's obligations, they broadly agree that the dispute turns on how far intermediary protections extend when platforms actively recommend and amplify content....
From The Hindu Archives, August 11, 1976: The choice of course of the candidates seeking admission to the five Indian Institutes of Technology does not appear to be related to their aptitudes or interest. They are guided much more by their assessment of job opportunities that will be available at the end of the five-year course, according to Prof. A.K. Basu Chairman of Admissions....
Employee unions have been among the most vocal critics of the Mann government, with repeated protests over regularisation, salaries and service conditions, as well as criticism over police action during some agitations....
The number of judges of the High Court of Karnataka has increased to 54 with six newly appointed additional judges assuming office. The new judges are Justices Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, Hema Kulkarni, Subramanya R., T.P. Vivekananda, B. Pramod and H. Shanthi Bhushan....
The protest witnessed heavy police deployment across Ranchi, while several BJP leaders were detained while demonstrating outside Chief Minister Hemant Soren's residence....
40-year-old SG Imran was found lying in a pool of blood in the toilet with his neck slit. The bodies of his daughters, aged 10 and 5, were discovered just metres away....
