Denied permission for Jantar Mantar, Sonam Wangchuk seeks alternative venue for fast

Denied permission for Jantar Mantar, Sonam Wangchuk seeks alternative venue for fast

Sonam Wangchuk. File. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Sunday (October 6, 2024) expressed his frustration on being denied permission to sit on a fast demanding Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh at the Jantar Mantar in the national capital, and sought an alternative. Sharing a copy of the letter sent … Read more

New criminal laws will usher in fast, efficient justice delivery, says Union Law Minister

New criminal laws will usher in fast, efficient justice delivery, says Union Law Minister

A fast and efficient justice delivery system is a sine qua non for good governance and the three new criminal laws that took effect in India from July 1 are in keeping with this principle, Arjun Ram Meghwal, the Union Minister for Law and Justice, said here on Saturday (August 17, 2024).  Being a fundamental … Read more

AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition – ET HealthWorld

AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition – ET HealthWorld

Washington: If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move widely anticipated since the … Read more

Blood test shows if organs are ageing fast or slowly

Blood test shows if organs are ageing fast or slowly

Dr Wyss-Coray said: “If we can reproduce this finding in 50,000 or 100,000 individuals it will mean that by monitoring the health of individual organs in apparently healthy people, we might be able to find organs that are undergoing accelerated ageing in people’s bodies, and we might be able to treat people before they get … Read more

Leh, Kargil bodies extend support to Wangchuk’s 10-day fast

Leh, Kargil bodies extend support to Wangchuk’s 10-day fast

The Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), which bring together politico-religious groups from the Union Territory of Ladakh, on Tuesday extended their support to the 10-day protest fast by Sonam Wangchuk, an award-winning educationist, for the granting of Sixth Schedule status to the region. | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan The Leh Apex … Read more

Congress stages fast against Rahul’s disqulification

Congress stages fast against Rahul’s disqulification

Former Rajya Sabha MP V. Hanumantha Rao participating hunger strike at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL A hunger strike was organised at the Gandhi Bhavan here on Thursday under the aegis of Rajiv Gandhi Panchayati Raj Sanghatan to protest against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as MP. Sanghatan chairperson … Read more

SI ‘attacks’ MPTC member; Uttam threatens fast in Kodad

SI ‘attacks’ MPTC member; Uttam threatens fast in Kodad

Injured MPTC member of Munagala in Kodad constituency Srinivas Reddy. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Nalgonda MP and former PCC chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has condemned the physical assault on Arneni Srinivas Reddy, MPTC of Munagala by Munagala Sub-Inspector of Police Lokesh, and threatened to sit on a dharna in Kodad on Sunday if … Read more

Explained | Sonam Wangchuk’s climate fast, Ladakh’s fragile ecology and the Sixth Schedule

Explained | Sonam Wangchuk’s climate fast, Ladakh’s fragile ecology and the Sixth Schedule

Social reformist Sonam Wangchuk does yoga during his five-day climate fast to “save Ladakh” in Phyang. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: Ladakhi innovator and engineer Sonam Wangchuk completed his five-day “climate fast”, in an effort to draw the attention of Indian leaders to the region’s fragile ecology and to secure its protection … Read more