Putin expresses ‘hope’ that nuclear weapons will not be needed in Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war News

Comments aired ahead of Putin’s three-day ceasefire, as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he does ‘not believe’ Russia will stick to pledge. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that there has so far been no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, expressing “hope” that they will not be required. Putin said his country had enough “strength and means”…

Is India’s DEW technology battle-ready?

A laser weapon developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation to shoot down aerial targets | Photo Credit: ANI Recently, the news of a Turkish cargo aircraft’s brief stopover at Karachi airport set off a wave of conspiracy theories, given the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan over the terrorist attack on tourists at…

Internal reservation: Survey to map SCs and their socio-economic and education levels in Karnataka to begin today

Former judge H.N. Nagamohan Das submitting the report on internal reservations to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah this March. In an exercise that will map the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and their socio-economic and educational levels in Karnataka, around 60,000 enumerators will ‘knock on every door’ and gather details on a mobile application starting Monday till May 17….

NEET (UG) concludes smoothly  – The Hindu

Students arrive to write NEET-UG at JNTU-H, Kukatpally, in Hyderabad on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR Police personnel check students at an exam centre at YMCA in Secunderabad on Sunday. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) – Undergraduate 2025 concluded smoothly in Hyderabad on Sunday. Barring a few incidents of…

Over a lakh candidates appear for NEET-UG exam in Kerala

The police check details of candidates who arrive for NEET-UG exam at Manacaud GHSS, one of the exam centres, in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Over a lakh students are estimated to have appeared for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2025 in Kerala on Sunday. The examination was conducted across 334 centres…

Election Commission to develop new digital interface for voters, other stakeholders

The Election Commission’s new initiative comes amid allegations made by Opposition parties about voter roll manipulations, duplication of elector’s photo identity cards (EPICs), as well as abnormalities in updating voter turnout data. File | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday (May 4, 2025) announced that it was developing a…