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PU pulls up 11 dist colleges over lack of regular principals

Ludhiana, Dec. 19 -- Panjab University (PU) has issued show-cause notices to 42 affiliated colleges across Punjab and Chandigarh, including 11 institutions from Ludhiana, for failing to appoint regula... Read More


HT reviewer Suhit Bombaywala picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- The monk Ajahn Brahm's collection of 108 essays Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung is helping me achieve more happiness, peace and resilience in the worldly path. I recommend it to i... Read More


What's happening in Salem? Large police presence amid Brown University, MIT shooter manhunt

India, Dec. 19 -- The Brown University shooting probe reportedly reached Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday. After reports linked the Providence incident to the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, a... Read More


HT reviewer Simar Bhasin picks her favourite reads of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- This year, two works of literary fiction blew me away, both as a research scholar working on texts that may be termed as belonging to the genre of 'migrant fiction' as well as a lite... Read More


HT reviewer Saurabh Sharma picks their favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- Nesting by Irish author Roisin O'Donnell, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year, may seem to be about Ciara Fay's unsettling marital relationship but it is... Read More


3% arrears for HRTC staff by March 2026: Himachal Deputy CM

Shimla, Dec. 19 -- Deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri on Thursday announced that 3% arrears of Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) employees will be paid by March 31, 2026, in four instalme... Read More


HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- I'm baffled by how such few people have read or even know about The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy by journalists Aletta Andre and Abhimanyu Kumar. This astonishing book unravels o... Read More


'Travel only if essential': UP relief commissioner issues fog, cold wave advisory

LUCKNOW, Dec. 19 -- The people should travel only when "absolutely necessary" and to strictly follow traffic rules, Uttar Pradesh relief commissioner Hrishikesh Bhaskar Yashod said on Thursday, as den... Read More


HT reviewer Rutvik Bhandari picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- I read Anxious People in January 2025, on a day where allergies left me feeling like a lone soldier stuck in a high battlement facing an entire troop. After being unable to focus on ... Read More


HT reviewer Pranavi Sharma picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- Very few books about Kashmir have Kashmiris at the centre as individuals with lives and voices of their own. More often, they are rendered only as political subjects who are importan... Read More