NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a PIL by a doctors’ association challenging India’s nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for adolescent girls to protect them against cervical cancer and said it did not behove medical practitioners to take an anti-vaccine stance.Though the NGO’s counsel clarified at the outset that the PIL was not against…
New Delhi: Having secured nearly 2,000 convictions in food safety cases across the country, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is now stepping up enforcement, including holding e-commerce platforms responsible for products sold through them and proposing stricter action against high-fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) foods near schools, its CEO Rajit Punhani said…
Arjun Erigaisi and Viswanathan Anand (Photo by ChessBase India) BENGALURU: It was a different day, a different set of fixtures and a different proposition for each team looking to seal a top-two berth. But what remained the same was Viswanathan Anand’s miserable run at the 2026 Global Chess League (GCL) on Wednesday at The Lalit…
PC: Youth Service America At just 17, Vivian Liu has turned a childhood passion for origami into a worldwide movement built around one simple idea: making people feel remembered. Through Origami For Good, the teenager from Katy, Texas, has helped bring together thousands of young volunteers who fold recycled paper into cranes, flowers, animals and…
More than a year after being stabbed during an attempted burglary at his Mumbai home, Saif Ali Khan has reflected on the incident and how it changed the way he looks at security, privilege and life itself. The actor, who sustained serious injuries in the January 2025 attack, said the experience left him with a…
Make it a point today to attend to home life and family obligations. Address practical issues around the house before they turn into bigger concerns that divert your attention. Aim to enhance the comfort and aesthetics of your living space. Keep work-related anger separate from family dialogues; fostering order in your personal life will improve…
NEW DELHI: With minors’ access to social media platforms banned in many countries, Supreme Court Thursday took the first step in this regard by seeking govt’s response to a PIL that said opening a social media account is akin to signing a contract – which is impermissible for a person below 18 years of age…
BENGALURU: They say truth is stranger than fiction — a lesson Karnataka’s top hurdler has just been handed the hard way.Despite clearing Athletics Federation of India’s (AFI) Asian Games qualifying benchmark not once but thrice, Krishik M still finds himself left out of the 110-metre men’s hurdles squad for the upcoming continental showpiece in Japan.The…
The red kite, once pushed close to extinction in Britain because of human persecution, has made one of the country’s most successful wildlife recoveries. After centuries of hunting and egg collecting reduced the UK population to fewer than 10 breeding pairs in remote Welsh valleys, a reintroduction programme launched in 1989 brought birds from Spain…
Nick Nolte, 85, returned to the red carpet after four years at the Venice Film Festival to promote Casey Affleck’s Company. (Photo: Getty Images) Nick Nolte has made his first red carpet appearance in four years, stepping out at the Venice Film Festival to promote his new gothic anthology film Company. The 85-year-old three-time Oscar…
