Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has been taken up by the Election Commission of India to update and correct voters’ list. SIR has already been done eight times from 1951 till 2004, ...

Are there three children who've collectively logged more private air travel than Blue Ivy Carter, Rumi Carter and Sir Carter? "My kids come with me everywhere I go," Beyoncé told GQ in 2024 of the ...

Beyonce and Jay-Z's twins, Rumi and Sir Carter, celebrated their 9th birthday on June 13. The twins are likely to have spent their milestone day with their doting parents and older sister, Blue Ivy, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Popular head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, who widened out the recruitment process Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, who has died from pancreatic ...

Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, has died aged 62 after being treated for cancer. Sir Alex, who led MI6 between 2014 and 2020, held a career in British intelligence that spanned almost three ...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday appointed Lokhande Prashant Sitaram, a 2001-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), marking a ...

Lokhande Prashant Sitaram is a 2001-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer who was named as the new CBSE Chairman on June 2, 2026, amid the On-Screen Marking controversy. Learn more about him here. Senior IAS ...

Lokhande Prashant Sitaram was appointed as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Ministry of Education, on Tuesday. He will replace Rahul Singh, who was shunted out ...

For the first time, an Indian philosopher trained at IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad will speak at Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and King's College London in June 2026. The battles are the ...

Despite the fame and notoriety she experienced in her lifetime, not enough people today know about the trailblazing Black trans artist Sir Lady Java. Fortunately, thanks to a newly published zine by ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.