NEW DELHI: In the midst of the row over trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar allegedly misusing the disability quota, a case has surfaced of a candidate with muscular dystrophy being denied any service despite having cleared the civil services four times.Kartik Kansal, who studied mechanical engineering in IIT Roorkee, is currently a scientist in Isro,…
Researchers from several universities, including Oxford, have used mortality data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 to estimate that there were almost 12 lakh excess deaths in 2020, eight times the official number of Covid-19 deaths in India that year. The health ministry has dismissed the estimate as “gross and misleading” and criticised the…
NEW DELHI: Airport systems across India were restored at 3am Saturday after a 17-hour global outage caused by a software fault in computers running MS Windows. However, a large backlog of cancelled and delayed flights, along with undelivered baggage, means full normalisation may take a couple of days.“Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is…
NEW DELHI: UPSC chairman Manoj Soni has tendered his resignation barely a year into his six-year tenure, citing “personal reasons”. The news of his resignation, believed to have been submitted to the President some time back, comes amid the controversy over IAS probationer Puja Khedkar‘s selection to the civil services based on forged identity, which…
LUCKNOW: UP CM Yogi Adityanath is likely to meet PM Narendra Modi and BJP brass when he is in New Delhi on July 27 for the Niti Aayog governing council meeting.Highly placed sources in govt confirmed the CM would be meeting the PM, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda. These proposed…
PUNE: NCP chief Ajit Pawar snubbed NCP(SCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday, when the latter raised some queries at a meeting of Pune District Planning Development Committee (DPDC), saying invited members were not eligible to ask questions.The uncle and nephew were seen together at an event after a long gap. Being Pune’s guardian minister, Ajit…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand govt has submitted an application to recall and modify an order to eliminate a segment based on the suggested clauses of the Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code (UCC) from an HC directive. This directive concerned the protection of an interfaith couple in a live-in relationship in Dehradun. A bench led by Justice Manoj Kumar…
KOLKATA: Bengal Police on Saturday registered an FIR against steel firm CEO Dinesh Saraogi for alleged sexual assault on a 28-year-old woman on a July 16 Kolkata-Abu Dhabi flight. Separately, Vulcan Green Steel, the Jindal Group firm that Saraogi heads, placed him on “administrative leave and appointed an independent third-party” for an internal probe.Saraogi has…
LUCKNOW: Pieces of cloth were used with at least 72 elastic clips to secure the track between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations, 25km from Gonda in Uttar Pradesh, according to a six-member team of railway officials that conducted a preliminary probe into the July 18 derailment of Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express, resulting in the deaths of four…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate Saturday arrested Congress’s Sonipat MLA Surendra Pawar in a money-laundering case related to illegal mining in Yamuna Nagar. The syndicate, of which Pawar is accused of being a member, has allegedly generated ‘proceeds of crime‘ of Rs 500 crore, according to ED sources.The MLA was produced before a special PMLA…
