NEW DELHI: It was love at first sight for Amrita and Shubham (names have been changed to protect identities). They were of the same age and lived in the same neighbourhood in Bihar‘s Muzaffarpur. Amrita, a Class 12 student, met Shubham on the way to school and after classes too. However, their friendship was not…
NEW DELHI: Post-resolution of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-undergraduate (NEET-UG) controversies, significant reforms are anticipated within the National Testing Agency (NTA). According to govt sources, extensive changes in the agency’s operations and exam administration are under consideration, with a high-level committee likely to be established for recommendations..The NEET-UG 2024 results, announced on June 4, faced widespread…
NEW DELHI: In what may change the complexion of both Parliament and opposition politics, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will take the electoral plunge from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which her brother Rahul Gandhi has decided to vacate while retaining Rae Bareli in UP.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge made the two announcements to the media on…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry will hold talks “at the earliest” with Meitei and Kuki representatives from Manipur as part of a fresh bid to bridge the ethnic divide that has been causing recurrent unrest and clashes between the state’s indigenous communities over the past one year.This was stated by home minister Amit Shah at…
KOLKATA/KHARAGPUR: The IIT-Kharagpur campus was jolted by the news of yet another death after a 21-year-old, third-year biotechnology student was found hanging from the roof of the Sarojini Naidu and Indira Gandhi Hall on Monday morning.Other students saw Devika Pillai’s body hanging from the roof of the two-storey building around 7am and alerted the campus’s…
AHMEDABAD: Even as the uproar over the alleged irregularities in NEET for admissions to MBBS courses continues, a shocking case of medical education fraud has come from Mehsana in north Gujarat.A homeopath paid Rs 16.32 lakh for admission to an MBBS course from a UP university and received his degree and certificates within a month…
NEW DELHI: Passenger woes at Air India show no signs of ebbing. A person flying Bengaluru-San Francisco (AI 175) on June 9 reportedly found a metal blade in his meal, which he was able to spit out in time before it could cause any harm. In the past few weeks, AI – where change is…
NEW DELHI: The arrival of US NSA Jake Sullivan in India for a review of the initiative on critical and emerging technology (iCET) coincided with an announced by the Czech government that Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who has been indicted by American authorities for his involvement in the Gurpatwant Pannun foiled murder plot, was handed…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC has granted bail for 16 days to a 23-year-old man arrested under Pocso Act, allowing him to marry an 18-year-old girl he has been accused of raping and with whom he fathered a child when she was a minor.Treating it as a “peculiar” case, Justice M Nagaprasanna has directed authorities to release…
NEW DELHI: After new members’ oath-taking is completed on the first two days of Lok Sabha session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to propose the name of the new Lok Sabha Speaker on June 25 even as the BJP-led NDA, which has the majority, has still not announced its candidate’s name.The first session of…
