Haryana ties up with World Bank to cut pollution

In what officials are calling Haryana’s most ambitious environmental push yet, the state has collaborated with World Bank and created the ‘Haryana Clean Air Project for Sustainable Development’ with a corpus of Rs 3,600 crore to ‘significantly improve’ air quality over the next five years.The proposal includes sweeping interventions, ranging from farm-level enforcement to industrial…

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Ranveer Singh’s ‘Dhurandhar’ beats Prabhas’s ‘Baahubali 2- The Conclusion’ as the highest 2nd Friday collection of Indian Cinema in North America |

Dhurandhar has achieved a historic box office milestone in North America. The film has now recorded the highest ever second Friday collection for an Indian movie in the region. This achievement surpasses the previous record held by Baahubali 2. Dhurandhar’s performance highlights its strong audience reception and box office success. Ranveer Singh and Aditya Dhar’s…

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A single watchdog for higher education: Here’s what the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill sets in motion

Big education reforms rarely arrive all at once. They move through Cabinet notes, draft clauses and administrative reshuffles before their effects are felt in classrooms and campuses. The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill, cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday, is one such moment. It gives legislative form to a core promise of the National…

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Gatecrash or misrepresentation? Did Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif interrupt Putin’s closed-door meeting? Fact check

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif faced heavy trolling on social media after a video claiming he had “gatecrashed” a closed-door meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went viral on Friday. The video was later deleted, claiming that it may have been a “misrepresentation of the events”.According to a post…

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Auto dispatches hit top gear: November clocks double-digit sales growth — What’s driving the surge?

Automakers saw a strong rise in factory dispatches to dealerships in November, indicating that consumer demand remained strong even after the festive season ended. Companies noted that cars, two-wheelers and three-wheelers recording strong double-digit growth as compared to the same period, a year earlier. Industry body SIAM said that the month turned out to be…

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