Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi (file photo)

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reacted to the suicide of a NEET aspirant and launched a fresh attack on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over the NEET-UG paper leak mess.The senior Congress leader took to social media to mention the case of NEET aspirant Akanksha, who recently committed suicide after failing in the exam.Highlighting the struggles of the student and her family, Rahul Gandhi wrote on Twitter, “Akanksha wanted to serve the country and society by becoming a doctor. Akanksha’s father is a farmer. To fulfill his daughter’s dream of becoming a doctor, he took a loan of Rs 3 lakh on Kisan Credit Card.” And he got a job as a cook in Nagpur, so that his daughter could take coaching there. A father did everything he could.”Rahul Gandhi blamed the government for this and described it as a “corrupt” education system and linked Akanksha’s death to the NEET paper leak controversy.He said, “Then the NEET paper was leaked. The exam was cancelled. In that uncertainty, Akanksha left us forever. Akanksha’s death was not suicide – it is the result of a corrupt, broken system under Modi ji.”

Congress leader also targeted the Union Education Minister Dharmendra PradhanReiterating the opposition’s demand for accountability in the wake of the NEET paper leak.“And Dharmendra Pradhan ji? He is still in his chair. Same committee. Same transfer. Same investigation. No reform, no justice.”Rahul Gandhi further accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of damaging India’s education system during his tenure.He said, “Modi ji, power is not permanent – ​​it comes and goes. But the extent to which you have ruined the education system in 12 years, an entire young generation of India is paying the price for it.”His comments come a month after the NEET-UG exam was canceled following the paper leak. National Testing Agency (NTA) later announced that the re-examination will be conducted on June 21.The cancellation affected lakhs of medical aspirants across the country, triggering widespread protests and demands for accountability. There have also been several reports of student suicides after NTA’s NEET failure.

Vicky Kaushal Experiencing two different emotional scenarios simultaneously, the joy of becoming a new father and the weight of public scrutiny. After facing criticism over his light-hearted joke about marriage at a wedding ceremony, the actor opened up about the responsibilities that come with fame, and also how difficult it has been being away from his newborn son. VihaanFor work.

Vicky reacts sharply on marriage related joke

In March, a clip from a wedding ceremony went viral in which Vicky Kaushal, quoting his iconic ‘Uri’ dialogue, asks a groom, “How’s the Josh?” When the crowd responded enthusiastically, he quipped, “I have noticed that bachelors always have high energy and enthusiasm. For those of us who are married, the enthusiasm is decreasing year by year.”The comment sparked a wave of criticism online. Instead of ignoring it, Vicki chose to address it publicly. Mid-Day quoted the actor as saying, “There’s no way that just because you’re a public figure, you need to be perfect. Sometimes we’re brick-and-mortar characters, and maybe that’s what I’ve learned for me is that, as much as people are giving me love, it also comes with a certain sense of responsibility.”Vicky does not shy away from acknowledging the double-edged nature of celebrity. He further added, “No actor gets fame and doesn’t get the flip side of it. I have made a conscious choice that I want to be here, and the universe is responding. Now it’s up to me how I handle it.” [the fame]. And if the criticism is constructive, you can learn from it.”

Vicky Kaushal talks about the hardest part of being a new father

Beyond the controversy, Vicky has also been very personal about fatherhood. Recalling the moment when she had to leave for shooting after Vihaan’s birth, she said, “My heart sank. It was tough.”He also reflected on the daily quests of fatherhood with disarming honesty. The actor shared, “There are so many new emotions that come up almost on a daily basis because being a parent is new to me. I understand now when other people say, ‘Yaar, baccha kitna jaldi bada ho raha hai’ (The baby is growing up so quickly). And I would think, ‘What are you talking about? Your baby is still a year old.’ Now I understand.”

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Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif The wedding took place in a private ceremony in December 2021. Their son Vihaan was born on November 7, 2025. On the work front, the actor will next star in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love & War’ alongside Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. The release date of the film has not been announced yet.

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On a piece of California land that, at first glance, looks like a low industrial sprawl, a straight building stretches for miles without changing direction. It doesn’t rise to the sky, it doesn’t turn into architectural spectacle, and it doesn’t really behave like a place designed for people to stay. The Klystron Gallery at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a structure you understand only in fragments, usually while standing inside it and feeling the corridors ahead that refuse to be finished in any visual sense. Walking from one side to the other can take about 40 minutes at a steady pace, although even this seems oddly impossible when you’re inside its repetitive industrial rhythms.

How a 3 kilometer physics corridor was built in California without a single turn

The gallery exists because there is a need for something far more demanding than building aesthetics. Below and beside it runs a linear particle accelerator, a machine designed to push electrons on straight paths over vast distances. That necessity alone determined the form above ground. No detours, no shortcuts, no architectural deviations.Instead of a traditional building plan, engineers were effectively following a scientific directive: Keep everything aligned for about 2 miles, and don’t let the structure stray out of precision. What sits above is no decorative shell but a working infrastructure, filled with equipment that feeds energy into the accelerator below. Inside, the corridors have a kind of repetition that becomes difficult to track after a while. Panels, cables, equipment bays, safety markings, then more panels. The lighting remains consistent, making it difficult to assess progress. You can walk for several minutes without any real feeling of change in distance.

The physics behind the gallery’s 3 kilometer long linear structure

The length of the gallery is not due to architectural ambition but to physics constraints. Particle acceleration to high energy levels requires space, and lots of space. Electrons require time and distance to gain momentum in a controlled manner, and compressing that process would have limited the entire experiment. Therefore the structure was extended in a straight line until the design requirements were met. That decision locked in a footprint of about 3 kilometres, something that now reads like a completely different category of infrastructure than anything like a traditional building.Above ground, the Klystron Gallery supports this process through rows of klystrons, devices that generate powerful bursts of radiofrequency energy. They are industrial in appearance, put together and arranged in long sequences, doing a job that has no real everyday comparison outside of specific physics.

Why is its claim as the ‘tallest building’ open to interpretation?

There is still little debate over whether it should receive the title of ‘tallest building’ or not. Definitions depend on how strictly one interprets the term building. If it should be fully enclosed, continuous, and designed for occupancy, the gallery sits in an awkward middle ground. It is enclosed, but not for living or working in the usual sense.Comparisons are then made with other large scientific establishments. The LIGO observatories in the United States are longer in raw distance, but they are vacuum tunnels rather than closed structures in the traditional sense. This difference itself changes the way they are classified, depending on who is drawing the line. Even large infrastructure such as dams, terminals or defensive walls are excluded for similar reasons. They are so fragmented in purpose or form that they cannot be considered a single building, even if they exceed it in scale.

Kolkata: After a few hours Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee Moved the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday, seeking protection from any coercive action in the CID case of Trinamool MLA signature forgery case, after the Enforcement Directorate issued summons to him in the primary teacher recruitment irregularities case.Banerjee was asked to appear at the ED’s Kolkata zonal office on June 15.The development came shortly after the Calcutta HC allowed Banerjee to file a case challenging the CID summons and seeking protection from any coercive action in the MLA signature forgery case.Based on the FIR lodged by the CBI against alleged irregularities in the appointments of teachers, the ED started investigation into the primary teachers’ recruitment case.The same day, Kalighat police station officials removed police kiosks, barricades, scanner machines and other surveillance equipment placed outside Banerjee’s house on Shantiniketan, Harish Mukherjee Road. The security convoy and guard rail in front of Banerjee’s house were earlier removed.On the oral prayer of Banerjee’s lawyers, a vacation bench of Justice Apurba Sinha Ray allowed filing of a petition challenging the FIR in the signature forgery case and seeking interim protection from any coercive action by the CID. The case is likely to be heard on Friday.The CID summoned Banerjee following a letter submitted by Trinamool to the Assembly Secretariat on May 19, in which party MLA Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay was elected as the leader of the opposition. Signed by around 70 newly elected Trinamool MLAs, it was alleged that the signatures of the MLAs were forged. A complaint was lodged at Hare Street PS.Banerjee did not attend her summons at Bhawani Bhavan on Monday citing health reasons. He reportedly asked for a few weeks’ time after his recovery to attend the summons.CID officials personally served the summons at his Kalighat home on Saturday afternoon. In the evening, during his visit to Sonarpur to meet the family of a Trinamool worker allegedly killed in post-poll violence, he was attacked with stones and eggs.

A deep internal rift within Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has emerged, with a group of MPs expressing dissatisfaction over the ‘lack of effort’ by the party leadership to press for the release of its jailed founder and former prime minister. imran khan.Dissident members of the Provincial Assembly (MPA), many of whom were deprived of posts during the recent cabinet expansion, held an emergency meeting in Peshawar before sending a letter to PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan, news agency PTI quoted Dawn newspaper as saying.The meeting discussed the continued imprisonment of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, concerns over party workers, governance issues and the effectiveness of the ongoing campaign for his release.In the letter, the lawmakers said the handling of Khan’s release and health-related efforts was causing “concern among activists, supporters and patriotic citizens.” He argued that the campaign for his release had lost momentum and become ineffective.The letter said, “Activists feel that the release movement has deviated from its original direction and has become limited only to matters of health and treatment. The ongoing movement for the leader’s release appears to be largely limited to formal statements, restricted protest activities and symbolic measures. A new strategy should be formulated to make the movement effective, organized and result-oriented.”MPs warned that failure to address these concerns could have serious political consequences for the party.He also raised concerns about governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, alleging “interference by irrelevant individuals in the affairs of the provincial government, deviation from competence, unfair distribution of resources and lack of proper consultation with relevant MPAs in decisions regarding powers and development resources of their constituencies”.The letter called for greater transparency, competence and consultation in government affairs, while demanding a “positive, comprehensive, effective and result-oriented strategy” for Khan’s release.An MLA told Dawn that about 20 MLAs are unhappy with not getting cabinet posts. The report also said the group boycotted a parliamentary meeting called by Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and instead traveled to Rawalpindi to protest outside Adiala jail. Copies of the letter were also sent to the party’s Central General Secretary and Central Information Secretary.

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches and interrogation at the residence of former Trinamool Congress MLA Shaukat Mollah killed one person in South Bamunia area of ​​Bhangar while investigating a bomb blast that took place shortly before the West Bengal Assembly elections.The investigation was transferred to the NIA following demands for a central probe into the blast. Since taking charge of the case, the agency has arrested many people including TMC leader Wahedul Islam.Officials of a special team of NIA reached Mollah’s residence to gather information and investigate possible links to the case. During the operation, Mollah’s wife and daughter were seen entering the premises.Separately, the NIA had taken over the investigation into the recovery of crude bombs in West Bengal on April 27 after probing the case from a possible terror angle.After receiving instructions from the Home Ministry, the agency registered a new FIR, number RC-25/2026/NIA/DLI.“In compliance with the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the NIA has registered a case related to the recovery of crude bombs in West Bengal. This case pertains to the recovery of 79 crude bombs and other material by the Kolkata Police, which were being stored at one place on April 25, causing threat to human life and property. The NIA had registered the case on April 26,” the NIA said on Monday.The original case, registered as FIR number 62/2026 on April 25 at North Kashipur police station under Bhangar division, invokes provisions of the Indian Code of Justice, 2023 and the Explosive Substances Act, 1908. The complaint was registered after the police allegedly received information about storage of crude bombs and materials intended for their manufacture.Acting on a tip-off, police recovered 79 round-shaped objects tied with jute ropes, suspected to be country-made bombs, along with other incriminating materials. Investigators said the explosives were hidden inside an abandoned house near a graveyard in Poilepara area of ​​Majerhat under North Kashipur police station in South 24 Parganas district.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi (BCCI/IPL photo)

New Delhi: If the greatest innings of Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s record-breaking IPL 2026 campaign were to be ranked, his brilliant strike against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the eliminator would sit at the top. with Rajasthan Royals Facing a do-or-die contest, the 15-year-old batting sensation produced one of the most devastating innings in IPL history, scoring 97 runs off just 29 balls to take his team past Sunrisers Hyderabad and into Qualifier 2.Bihar-born Pratibha’s work was not yet complete. In Qualifier 2 against Gujarat Titans, Suryavanshi once again stole the show with a sensational 96. Although Rajasthan Royals ultimately lost by seven wickets and missed out on a place in the final, Kishore had already cemented his place as the standout performer of the tournament.During his stunning innings against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Suryavanshi hit 12 sixes, which surprised the players and fans. Sunrisers Hyderabad all-rounder was also among those who were surprised. liam livingstoneThe veteran of seven IPL seasons admitted that he had never seen anything like it.“I’ve never seen anything like it. And I’ve been there; this year was my seventh IPL. And I’ve played with and against some very good players, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Livingstone said on the Stick to Cricket podcast.The England all-rounder was particularly impressed by Suryavanshi’s ability to develop over the course of the tournament and find answers to every challenge thrown by the bowlers.“He’s just the way he hits a ball, he hits the ball very cleanly, yes. He never hits a ball the wrong way, never hits a ball the wrong way the whole time. And wherever the ball is, the first time we got him out with a bouncer, the first ball he hit it straight. But then the evolution he made as a player from the beginning to the end of that tournament was like this… We were bowling bouncers and he was hitting it over third man, and then you’d bowl this side, he’d hit it there; You bowled the full ball, he hit it there; Throw a low full toss, he will flick it there. And you’re like, ‘Okay, wait a minute, where are we going to bowl?'” Livingstone said.Suryavanshi’s statistics in IPL 2026 were nothing short of extraordinary. The left-handed batsman finished as the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 776 runs in 16 innings at a whopping strike rate of 237.30.He rewrote the record books by hitting 72 sixes during the season, breaking the previous IPL record of 59 sixes held by West Indies great Chris Gayle. His remarkable campaign included a century and five half-centuries, earning him both the Orange Cap and the Most Valuable Player award.

A dual US-Iranian citizen and the chief executive of a Tehran-based technology company were arrested on federal charges related to an alleged ten-year scheme to illegally export US-origin networking and encryption hardware to Iran’s nuclear and military sectors, in violation of sanctions regulations in the United States.According to ANI, defendant Jamshed Ghomi, a 63-year-old resident of Newport Coast, California, was detained following a federal criminal complaint charging him with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The complaint alleges that they purchased and exported restricted US technology to Iran without obtaining the required authorization from the Office of Foreign Assets Control.Federal prosecutors identified Ghomi as the founder and chief executive of Faraz Pardaz Rayneh Company Limited (FPR), through which he allegedly obtained sensitive US networking hardware. The equipment was reportedly rerouted through third-party intermediaries in the United Arab Emirates before being transferred to Iranian recipients, including state and military-affiliated entities.The US Justice Department said investigators consider the operation a deliberate attempt to circumvent export controls and direct advanced US technology to sanctioned Iranian entities.Authorities alleged that between 2011 and 2015, Ghomei used eBay and PayPal accounts to make more than 400 acquisitions of regulated technology before transitioning to direct purchases from commercial suppliers in Minnesota and Nebraska through a network of shell companies. Investigators further alleged that, from 2014 to 2018, he coordinated the transit of more than 250 metric tons of hardware into Iran through freight forwarding services operating from Dubai, during which he falsified shipping records and systematically concealed end-user identities.Court filings indicate that FPR supplied technology to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the body responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear program, as well as the Ministry of Defense and armed forces logistics. The company is also accused of providing encryption and security systems for defense-affiliated operations in violation of additional sanctions restrictions.Prosecutors said Ghomei obscured the financial path of more than USD 15 million to the United States between 2011 and 2024 through complex monetary transactions, fraudulent invoices and sham corporations. Authorities further alleged that he deliberately underreported his income to tax authorities while financing a multi-million dollar luxury estate on the Newport Coast with proceeds from illegal trading.The Justice Department indicated that the prosecution is part of broader federal enforcement efforts to prevent unauthorized technology transfers to adversarial states. If convicted, Ghomey faces a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years in federal prison. Judicial officials said the criminal complaint is only an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

us President donald trump Said on Wednesday that talks with Iran are going “very well” and that Tehran has agreed to allow US personnel to enter Iran and recover buried nuclear material in coordination with Iranian officials after the war ends.“It’s very, very difficult to achieve… but still, I want to achieve it,” Trump told reporters at the White House.Despite recent attacks in the region, Trump said the US-Iran ceasefire that took effect in early April remains in place, suggesting that an interim agreement could be reached “over the weekend” as talks move forward.“The conversation itself has been very good – really, very good – even if it happens, and it may not happen, but if it happens, it could be like a weekend,” Trump said.Trump claimed that Iranian officials “have changed their minds several times, but as things stand right now, we will go in at some point in the near future.”Read this also ‘I was a little worried’: Donald Trump confirms calling Netanyahu ‘crazy’ over Lebanon attackIn sharp contrast, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that there has been “no concrete progress” in talks to end the Middle East war.“Communications with the Americans have not been cut, and messages have been exchanged regarding the need to stop aggression against Beirut, but there has been no concrete progress in the negotiation process,” Tasnim news agency quoted Araghchi as saying to Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV.Araghchi warned that any Israeli attack on Beirut would lead to a “full-scale resumption” of the conflict. “Any attack on Beirut would have serious consequences and would lead to a full-scale resumption of war. If Israel attacks Beirut, our armed forces are ready to attack it.”Iranian naval forces have also targeted the “command center” on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Oman in response to US “violations of the rules” of the Strait of Hormuz and its “hostile” actions against Iranian ships, state-owned IRIB TV reported on Wednesday. A few minutes later, US Central Command denied the claim at X.US lawmakers dealt Trump a political blow on Wednesday when the House passed a resolution directing the withdrawal of US troops from the Iran war.“This is a loud and clear message to Donald Trump on behalf of the American people: It is time to end his deeply unpopular and illegal choice in Iran,” the Democrats posted on Twitter.