NEW DELHI: Pariksha Pe Charcha 2025 broke tradition with an open-air, informal conversation at Sunder Nursery, replacing the conventional auditorium setup, as students engaged with PM Narendra Modi in a free-wheeling discussion around diet, stress, technology and personal struggles related to examinations.Modi revealed, “Had I not been PM, I would have liked to work in…
NEW DELHI: If a convicted person is barred from government employment, what is the rationale behind provisions in the Representation of the People Act that allow a convicted criminal to contest elections and become a lawmaker six years after he has served the sentence, Supreme Court asked on Monday.After two landmark judgments on electoral reforms…
NEW DELHI: As President Trump issued fresh threats of 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports into the US (on top of existing metal duties), India is getting ready to unbracket itself from countries he has called “worst tariff manipulators”, citing its recent duty cuts to point to a reduction in average duties in…
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(SPUs), which enrol 81% of India’s higher education students, are grappling with severe faculty shortages and outdated infrastructure, affecting academic excellence and research output.A policy report by Niti Aayog, Expanding Quality Higher Education Through SPUs, released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…
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…
