NEW DELHI: Can organs, say a kidney or the liver, retrieved from a deceased donor with a history of diabetes or hypertension be used for transplantation?In a first of its kind factual assessment and report, the Indian Society for Organ Transplantation (ISOT) has said the benefits far outweigh the risks involved and, therefore, such donations…
CHENNAI: Pakistan’s “narrative management” during Operation Sindoor convinced its citizens they had triumphed, but “victory is in the mind”, Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said recently, describing how India planned and executed the cross-border strike like a high-stakes chess match.“If you ask a Pakistani whether you lost or won, he’d say my chief has become…
NEW DELHI: The standing committee on external affairs, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, will be briefed on the latest developments in India’s foreign policy on Monday, official sources said.The panel will be briefed by representatives of the ministry of external affairs and the ministry of commerce & industry on the developments in India’s foreign…
BENGALURU: India forced Pakistan “to its knees within hours” during Operation Sindoor in early May, PM Narendra Modi said Sunday, while calling the military success a show of “the new face” of a nation powered by technology and home-grown defence manufacturing.His remarks reinforced the nation’s position that no external party, including the US, played a…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Sunday informed Supreme Court that there was no provision in the Representation of the People Act or relevant rules mandating sharing details of preparation, publication or names of people deleted from the draft electoral roll with anyone, including petitioners before SC, except political parties.“The statutory framework does not require EC…
NEW DELHI: After launching the world’s costliest earth observation mission NISAR in collaboration with the US on July 30, India is set to launch a US communication satellite —Block-2 BlueBird — weighing 6,500 kg in a couple of months, Isro chairman V Narayanan disclosed on Sunday.The Block 2 BlueBird satellite features large communication arrays, up…
NEW DELHI: Air India’s upgrade of its legacy widebody fleet has been delayed again. The airline now hopes to complete the task by October 2028, about a year longer than the five-year plan announced earlier. Supply chain constraints since Covid have delayed Tata’s $400 million fleet retrofit programme for “delivering a world class flying experience…
Kylie Kelce’s heartfelt sideline gesture (Image via Getty) Kylie Kelce isn’t settling for the sidelines. Married to Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason Kelce, she’s stepping into her own arena—where motherhood meets empowerment, sports meets self-worth, and authenticity meets action. Her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast and advocacy work signal a shift in how women in her position…
ROORKEE: In what is being alleged to be a significant data privacy lapse, personal information of more than 30,000 students and alumni of IIT-Roorkee has been exposed on a public website for years, prompting the institute to launch an internal inquiry. The data, believed to have been electronically siphoned from the institute’s academic affairs department…
KOCHI: Brother of the Yemeni man for whose murder Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has been sentenced to death has made a fresh plea for her execution.In a Facebook post on Saturday, victim Talal Abdo Mahdi’s sibling Abdul Fattah said he had met Yemen’s deputy attorney-general (AG) for the third time to demand immediate implementation of…
