NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
Spanish star Mikel Merino can smell and see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires that are making for hazy conditions across large parts of the US. But Merino is trying not to focus on it. It remains unclear how much, if at all, the smoke will affect the World Cup final on Monday morning AEST….
NEW DELHI: Govt defended its high-speed rail cooperation with Japan, dismissing the statement of a former Japanese minister blaming India for the lack of progress in the ongoing work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai ‘bullet train’ project.Describing the comments by former justice minister Hideki Makihara, who accused Indian authorities of not keeping their promises, as the opinion…
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid has edged out Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-way sprint to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France, while defending champion Tadej Pogačar has safely kept his overall lead. With several riders closing in behind them on Friday, Schmid made the decisive move with 200m left and held off…
NEW DELHI: Women formed the majority of NEET-UG candidates and qualifiers again in 2026, but their representation thinned sharply at the very top, with only 30 women among the 138 candidates scoring 690 or more.Women accounted for 13.3 lakh of 22.8 lakh registrations, or 58.5%, and 6.5 lakh of 11.2 lakh candidates who qualified in…
Georgie Cauchi had all the symptoms of bowel cancer, but still aged in her 20s, doctors kept telling her she was too young, leaving the cancer to spread silently through her body. She was struggling to get out of bed, had constant pain and had seen blood in her stool, but over the next several…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from West Bengal and Election Commission to a PIL which alleged that the state govt was denying benefits of social welfare schemes, including ration, to people whose names were deleted from the voter list because of doubtful citizenship during special intensive revision (SIR).On a PIL by Prasenjit…
An Irish national who helped a shadowy international syndicate in a bid to smuggle an alleged fugitive drug trafficker out of Australia via a remote Northern Territory town has pleaded guilty to his role in the million-dollar plot. Stephen Frances Roche this week pleaded guilty in the NT Supreme Court to attempting to pervert the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
Most musicians would be disappointed if their performances were met with silence. But not Alison Ware. Every fortnight, the Canberra harp therapist performs for some of her most attentive audience members — rhinos, lemurs, lions and a school of Amazonian fish at the National Zoo and Aquarium. For the past five years, Ms Ware has…