CID detained IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar on Sunday to investigate his involvement as the Controller of Examinations at KPSC BENGALURU: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar in connection with alleged irregularities in the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) recruitment examination for veterinary officers.He was sent to 1-day judicial…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Video grab) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi may only be 15, but the teenage sensation showed remarkable composure and instinct when he took charge of East Zone during their Duleep Trophy semifinal against Central Zone in Bengaluru on Sunday.With East Zone chasing control over the opening day’s proceedings, Sooryavanshi made a crucial leadership call…
Police said the accused had uploaded a recording of a phone conversation between them online to pressure her into meeting him (AI image used for representational purpose) GORAKHPUR: A Class 10 student at a private inter-college was allegedly raped repeatedly over four months by a teacher who is also the son of the school manager,…
A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard, PC: D. Ryan Gray/Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans In early 2025, Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her partner, Aaron Lorenz, were clearing weeds behind their home in New Orleans’ historic Carrollton neighbourhood when they uncovered a marble slab covered in…
A DHS agenda item says the department wants to eliminate employment authorization for some spouses of H-1B visa holders. The Department of Homeland Security has come up with a proposal to remove certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B visa holders from employment authorization. Not much is known about the proposal and the proposal is listed…
The representation of the feather composting process. Image Credits: Google Gemini. Chicken feathers are usually treated as a disposal problem, but researchers in Bangladesh tested a way to return this waste to the soil. Instead of burning or burying discarded feathers, they decomposed them and used the resulting material as an organic fertiliser. In a…
In the case of Everest, FSSAI has prohibited the sale of compounded (hing powder) variants with immediate effect. NEW DELHI: Food regulator FSSAI on Saturday said it has prohibited Everest Food Products Pvt Ltd and Laljee Godhoo and Company from selling hing powder after finding the products to be sub-standard.In a social media post, the…
For decades, Pickerel Lake in Minnesota struggled with poor water quality, heavy algal growth and extremely low aquatic plant cover. The shallow lake had become dominated by common carp, a bottom-feeding fish that can disturb lake sediments and alter the movement of nutrients through an aquatic ecosystem.But after the invasive fish were removed in 2009,…
The road to restoring tigers in north Bengal’s Buxa Tiger Reserve is loaded with challenges. What will it take to make tiger reintroduction viable, ecologically sound and sustainable in the long term? To understand the science, landscape-level considerations and challenges ahead, TOI’s Krishnendu Mukherjee speaks to Ramesh Krishnamurthy, senior scientist at the Wildlife Institute of…
Satya Nadella believes empathy is the hardest skill leaders and employees can master. The Microsoft CEO has pushed back on the common practice of filing empathy away as just another soft skill. In his view, the ability to truly understand others sits above the rest of the leadership toolkit, and he says it took becoming…