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…
JAMMU: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Monday reviewed security situation and operational preparedness in J&K in the wake of back-to-back terrorist attacks in the Jammu region.He visited Srinagar-based Chinar 15 Corps and 16 Corps Hq in Jammu’s Nagrota where top Army commanders briefed him, a source said.CDS’ day-long visit to Jammu…
NEW DELHI: Finally, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has agreed to take the plunge into electoral politics. Priyanka has had a long association with politics. But till now, she has chosen to play the role of a facilitator, nurturing the constituencies of her mother Sonia Gandhi and also her brother Rahul. “I’m not nervous at all… I…
NEW DELHI: Political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, chief advisors for political science textbooks, threatened legal action against the council for allegedly publishing the new “politically biased” books under their names without consent, amid the ongoing controversy around the revised NCERT textbooks.In a letter, Palshikar and Yadav expressing their objection to the new textbooks…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Raul Gandhi’s decision to retain Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh prompting his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, to contest the bypolls for the Wayanad seat in Kerala sparked criticism from BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala, who accused the Congress party of operating as a ‘family business.’Poonawalla on Monday said, “Congress is not a…
