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A Group of Ministers, constituted to frame recommendations on the demand by six communities in Assam for Scheduled Tribe status, tabled its report in the state Assembly on Saturday, saying that it finds “full justification” for including these communities in the ST list and recommending the creation of a distinct category of ST (Valley).Existing Scheduled Tribes in Assam have opposed the demand of the six communities, and on Saturday, protesting students stormed the Bodoland Territorial Council secretariat building. The report was tabled late Saturday evening, at the tail end of the winter session of the Assembly, amid an outcry by…

SrinagarNovember 30, 2025 08:41 AM IST First published on: Nov 30, 2025 at 07:36 AM IST As Chief Minister Omar Abdullah faces protests from youths and attacks from the Opposition and within his own ranks over the issue of reservations, a Cabinet Sub Committee has cleared a report that suggests changes to ensure that 50% of the seats/jobs remain available for open merit or general category students. The report prepared by a Cabinet Sub Committee, which has been accepted by the Abdullah Cabinet, leaves the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) quotas untouched but recommends carving out additional open…

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) by-elections will be held across 12 wards today, marking a pivotal moment in the national capital’s local politics. This election is more than just a routine vote as it is shaping up as a triangular showdown between the BJP, AAP, and Congress, and is alo a public verdict on the BJP-led Rekha Gupta government’s performance in the city so far. The battle for votes unfolded with full force over recent weeks. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta took center stage campaigning for the BJP, while former Delhi Chief Minister and prominent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader…

BERLIN — On a recent windy November evening, the town’s sheriff and a handful of his deputies, clad in duster coats and Stetson hats, smoked on the porch outside the county jail, their Colt revolvers holstered and their Winchester rifles stowed away. The men knew they were powerless against the trouble headed their way.On the opposite side of the muddy main street, a crowd gathered inside one of the town’s two saloons. Townspeople cheered a troupe of women who were line dancing to country music in matching red-checkered shirts, cowboy boots and hats. The revelers knew this might be their…

AVCO Embassy Pictures At the time of Bruce Lee’s controversial and still-haunting death, the world-famous actor and martial artist was in the middle of several projects at various stages of development. One of those was a film called “The Silent Flute,” about a Western man being introduced to Eastern philosophy, that he began workshopping with actor James Coburn and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant in 1969. It remained unfinished when Lee died in 1973, at which point Silliphant and screenwriter Stanley Mann completed a significantly reworked version of the script. Chief among the changes…

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Despite loving a certain sci-fi classic, the genre is not one Tom Hanks has worked in very often. But he has indeed made a few sci-fi films throughout his impressive career, such as “Cloud Atlas” and “Asteroid City.” In 2021, he starred in the Apple TV+ original “Finch.” Hanks plays the titular character, who is one of the last remaining humans in a post apocalyptic future, where he trains a robot named Jeff (Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his dog after he dies. “Finch” was one of…

The CW The best thing about “Gossip Girl” — the soapy, steamy series created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and very loosely adapted from a book series by Cecily von Ziegesar — is every character is evil. Even if they’re not fully, entirely evil, every person on the show has evil instincts and tendencies, which is precisely what makes the series so fun to watch (and, incidentally, is precisely what ruined the HBO Max reboot; they made everyone way too nice!). With that in mind, when we talk about the…

LONDON (AP) — British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88.In a statement Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset in southern England, surrounded by his family.“He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language,” they said. “It was an honor to work with Tom and to know him.”The Czech-born Stoppard was often hailed as the…

Researchers have created gyromorphs, a new material that controls light more effectively than any structure used so far in photonic chips. These hybrid patterns combine order and disorder in a way that stops light from entering from any angle. The discovery solves major limitations found in quasicrystals and other engineered materials. It may open the […]

The Karnataka High Court has directed the refund of a Rs 10 crore “voluntary” GST payment made by a businessman, ruling that the payment was not actually voluntary in nature. The order was passed on October 13 by a bench consisting of Justice S R Krishna Kumar and was made public this week. In this case, a businessman trading in electronics and footwear had been filing Goods and Services Tax (GST) returns from 2017. In March 2023, personnel of the GST West Commissionerate under the Inspector of Central Tax raided his Bengaluru home and confiscated a laptop and some other…