NEW DELHI: In just a fortnight since its launch, TOI’s Tiger Anthem has crossed 100 million video views across platforms. The first-of-its-kind anthem is part of TOI’s “Saving Our Stripes” campaign, wh ich was launched on April 10 to raise awareness and support for tiger conservation in the 50th year of Project Tiger. The campaign…
NEW DELHI: India conducts nearly 65 lakh cataract removal surgeries every year under the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCBVI). During 2020-21, when the Covid pandemic was raging, the number of these procedures conducted under the government programme went down by nearly 50% with only 35.5 lakh surgeries being done. In…
NEW DELHI: The number of MBBS seats in the country is all set to cross the 1-lakh mark with the Centre approving 50 new medical colleges (30 government and 20 private) this year besides adding nearly 2,000 seats in existing colleges.The newly approved medical colleges are spread across states, with 13 colleges for Telangana, followed…
NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) monsoon finally hit the Kerala coast on Thursday, marking the beginning of the rainy season in India. The onset is delayed by seven days against the normal date of June 1, similar to years 2016 and 2019 in the past decade when monsoon arrived as late as on June 8.A…
NEW DELHI: India hit out hard at Canada Thursday for allowing Khalistan separatists to celebrate the assassination of former PM India Gandhi with foreign minister S Jaishankar, saying Canada’s indulgence of such activities will not be good for the bilateral relationship.With Canadian NSA Jody Thomas adding fuel to the fire by accusing India, along with…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and thanked him for his country’s “excellent support” during evacuation of Indians from Sudan in April, while also conveying best wishes for the upcoming Haj pilgrimage.During the telephonic conversation, the leaders reviewed a number…
NEW DELHI: A day after the body of a 36-year-old woman was found mutilated in a flat in Mumbai, gory and chilling details are now surfacing about the horrific crime which is reminiscent of the Shraddha Walkar murder in the national capital. Manoj Sane, 56, was arrested for allegedly murdering his live-in partner Saraswati Vaidya,…
NEW DELHI: India successfully tested the new-generation nuclear capable Agni-Prime ballistic missile, which has a strike range from 1,000 to 2,000-km, from the Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on Wednesday night.This was the “first pre-induction night launch” of the Agni-Prime conducted by the tri-service Strategic Forces Command (SFC), which handles the country’s…
NEW DELHI: A video from one of the coaches of the ill-fated Coromandel Express has surfaced on social media, showing what happened inside the train when it met with a horrific accident that left 288 people dead.TOI could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.The video, shot from a mobile phone camera, shows a…
BENGALURU: Isro chairman S Somanath on Thursday said that the integration of the launch vehicle — the GSLV-Mk3 or LVM3 — and the spacecraft of the Chandrayaan-3 mission will begin soon at India’s spaceport in Sriharikota.“All the stages of the launch vehicle have reached the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and the spacecraft has…