The SOR provides basic rates for various materials and services for construction projects, and will enable preparation of project estimates for infrastructure schemes, say officials. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Public Works Department has released a common schedule of rates (SOR) for all government departments for this fiscal, as part of its efforts to…
P.V. Sindhu | Photo Credit: Getty Images Badminton ace P.V. Sindhu says she is “going all-out” in her quest to become the first Indian to win an unprecedented third individual Olympic medal in Paris, drawing on her experience from a successful past. Sindhu stands on the brink of history as she pursues the gold medal…
Students at Sishutirtha regularly plant saplings, classes are held outdoors in the winter, and people call one another âdaâ or âdiâ as opposed to âsirâ or âmadamâ. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sishutirtha, a school run in Santiniketan â the only institution in the place to be run by the Tagore family â is marking…
Yogendra Yadav, political analyst and national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan, speaks at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran The 2024 Lok Sabha election result was a moral and political defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party and a personal defeat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Yogendra…
Sarabjot Singh | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui Pistol shooter Sarabjot Singh has some undisclosed goals to achieve in the Paris Olympics. Unlike athletes who speak of their target of winning medals in the Olympics, Sarabjot, who will compete in menâs 10m air pistol, has set different goals for himself. âMine is a little different. I…
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan with Malaysian Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PIB India and Malaysia have decided to increase bilateral cooperation in the field of edible oil, especially the cultivation of oil palm, and the production and trade of palm oil. Union Minister for Agriculture Shivraj Singh…
Delhi Police have arrested two men and recovered fake currency notes with a total face value of Rs 2.88 lakh from them, officials told PTI on Thursday. As per the PTI report, raw materials, equipment and tools used for manufacturing fake Indian currency notes were also seized from their possession, they said. The accused have…
Motorists wading through the waterlogged Kovoor Palazhi MLA Road in Kozhikode city on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh There was no let-up in heavy rain, often accompanied by gusty winds, in Kozhikode district as three more relief camps were opened on Thursday to accommodate affected families. According to official sources, 21 houses were damaged…
In China, the systems watch much more than the mobiles and computers. File | Photo Credit: Reuters âDonât worry, we are here not to spy on you (jasoosi), but to protect you (hifaazat),â said the burly man unconvincingly. He had been following our team on foot all around Rawalpindi on our first day in Pakistan,…
Filmmaker Bilal Jan on the set with J L Kaul | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT There was a little buzz around a film on Jawahar Lal Kaul, a visually challenged man who made light of his own limitation to dive into social work. As he strived to make the lives of those around him in…
