NEW DELHI: Grievances of the most backward among Scheduled Castes of being deprived of reservation benefits by those socio-economically advanced among them dates back to the 1960s but it took the shape of a legislation for the first time in Andhra Pradesh with the enactment of AP Scheduled Castes (Rationalisation of Reservations) Act, 2000.The law…
NEW DELHI: University Grants Commission (UGC) announced on Thursday that central universities have the option to conduct their own entrance exams or admit students based on marks in the qualifying exam if seats remain vacant in undergraduate and postgraduate courses after admissions through Common University Entrance Test (CUET). It emphasised that CUET scores will remain…
MUMBAI: In a win for the scientific community, the finance ministry has rolled back a customs duty hike levied on lab chemicals. In the recent Union budget, government had hiked customs duty on laboratory chemicals from 10 per cent to 150 per cent , throwing research budgets astray.TOI, on July 31, had reported that customs…
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: In a dramatic U-turn, JDS on Thursday announced it will join BJP padayatra from Bengaluru to Mysuru, after the saffron party’s top brass moved quickly to pacify the regional outfit’s Karnataka chief, HD Kumaraswamy.The 7-day padayatra, to begin from August 3, was called to press for a CBI probe into the alleged MUDA…
KOZHIKODE: Aranikkal Azeez walked into what was once a classroom at govt vocational higher secondary school in Meppadi – 16km from Mundakkai, a town uphill where a gushing wall of water, mud and stones buried all in its path early Monday. The room, typically filled with the chatter of students, had transformed into a temporary…
A major H-1B lottery scam has surfaced in which multiple companies submitted multiple applications for the same individuals rigging the system of getting American visas. Kandi Srinivasa Reddy, an Indian-American businessman, has been named behind the fraud. Interestingly, Reddy was a candidate of the Congress, now the ruling party in Telangana in the recent local…
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday summoned the Sri Lankan acting high commissioner and registered a strong protest over the collision earlier in the day between a Lankan navy vessel and an Indian fishing boat that left an Indian fisherman dead. Another Indian fisherman was reported missing after the collision.Indian government expressed shock and anguish at…
GUWAHATI: Facing flak for failing to bring peace in the roiled region, the BJP govt in Manipur Thursday made the first breakthrough by facilitating an agreement between the conflicting Meitei and the Hmar, belonging to the Kuki-Chin-Zo ethnic group of Jiribam district, to end hostilities and re-establish peace. Although restricted to Jiribam, govt sources described…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court Thursday upheld the maintainability of a bunch of suits seeking “removal” of the Shahi Idgah mosque adjacent to the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. The petitions claim that the Aurangazeb-era mosque was built after the demolition of a temple that marked the spot where Lord Krishna was born.Dismissing a petition filed…
India and Vietnam announced a new plan of action to boost their comprehensive strategic partnership, while also concluding an agreement for Indian credit lines worth $ 300 million to strengthen the southeast Asian nation’s maritime security, as PM Narendra Modi hosted his counterpart Pham Minh Chinh amid renewed tensions in the South China Sea (SCS).While…
