NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has called Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, ministers and party MLAs to Delhi for deliberations on Tuesday, in a move that was not only seen as aimed at insulating its government but also termed by rivals as “preparation” for the removal of Mann from the top post.Although AAP termed it…
NEW DELHI: Keeping your vehicles beyond 20 years is going to cost you more as the road transport ministry has issued a draft notification proposing a steep hike in renewal of their registration. The move is aimed at disincentivising people to keep vehicles that were manufactured before the BS-II emission norms came into force. The…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by the West Bengal govt challenging the April 22, 2024, order of the Calcutta high court, which had quashed the recruitment of more than 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff for state-run and state-aided schools.As CBI explained the systematic manner in which…
NEW DELHI: State public universities (SPUs), which enrol 81% of India’s higher education students, are grappling with severe faculty shortages and outdated infrastructure, affecting academic excellence and research output.A policy report by Niti Aayog, Expanding Quality Higher Education Through SPUs, released Monday, highlights that over 40% of faculty positions remain vacant, and only 10% SPUs…
NEW DELHI: Raising delay in conducting census by more than four years, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, in her maiden intervention in Rajya Sabha Monday, said around 14 crore people are being deprived of benefits under National Food Security Act (NFSA). She said the quota for beneficiaries is still determined based on the 2011 census, which…
NAGPUR: Indravati national park in Chhattisgarh‘s Bijapur, which also houses a tiger reserve, was a safe hideout for Maoists till Sunday, when 31 guerrillas were shot in one of the bloodiest encounters with security forces till date. Peoples’ Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), which is tottering in its headquarters at Abujmarh, was compelled to concede a…
KOLKATA: Congress’s inflexibility in Delhi and AAP‘s intransigence in Haryana led to BJP victories in assembly elections there, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday while declaring that Trinamool Congress wasn’t banking on anyone’s support to return to govt in the state by a two-thirds majority next year.“We won’t need anybody’s support. But everyone in…
GUWAHATI: The search for a consensus face to succeed N Biren Singh as Manipur CM could stretch until Wednesday as BJP’s North-East incharge Sambit Patra scans a clutch of prospective candidates seeking to drive the Meitei-Kuki “reconciliation” agenda. At least one contender – cabinet minister and known Biren baiter Yumnam Khemchand Singh – put his…
NEW DELHI: India’s expansive strategic partnership with France is set to get a further boost with two mega deals being virtually finalised for direct acquisition of 26 Rafale-Marine fighters, as well as the construction of three additional Scorpene submarines, which will collectively be worth almost Rs 1 lakh crore (Euro 10.6 billion).As PM Narendra Modi…
AMRITSAR: Punjab Police arrested three men allegedly responsible for an explosion near Fatehgarh Churian police outpost on February 3. Two of them received bullet injuries during a failed attempt to flee police custody.Amritsar’s police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar on Monday said accused Lovepreet Singh ‘Labha’, Karandeep Singh ‘Karan’, and Buta Singh are from Ajnala and…
