New Delhi: A total of 31 persons have been named in chargesheets filed by the NIA in four separate cases linked to alleged road blockades and illegal detention of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal's Malda, officials said Tuesday. The chargesheets have been filed before the NIA special court, Kolkata based...

New Delhi: Congress Tuesday said the transfer of CBSE chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta is an attempt to fix accountability on bureaucrats rather than the political leadership, and asserted that justice demands the "Mantri Pradhan" be sacked. The opposition party alleged that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been presiding over a "monumentally corrupt, inept, and...

Dubai: Iran stopped communicating with mediators after Israel threatened to bomb Beirut as it continues fighting the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported. The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, come as Iran insists the fighting in Lebanon is part of...

Mumbai: Former India leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule was Tuesday appointed as the spin bowling coach of the men's national team, having worked in the India U-19 and India A set-up earlier. Bahutule, who represented India in two Tests and eight ODIs, was seen in the Punjab Kings jersey in the recently concluded IPL. "The Board of Control for...

Berlin/New Delhi: The German Embassy in New Delhi Tuesday announced that Indian nationals will no longer require a transit visa when travelling to another country with a layover at a German airport. “The lifting of the so-called airport transit visa requirement for Indian citizens was announced in the Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) June 2, 2026, and takes...

New Delhi: The Centre has formed a one-member committee to inquire into matters relating to the procurement of services for the on-screen marking system by the CBSE. The committee will be chaired by S Radha Chauhan, Chairperson, Capacity Building Commission, a memorandum issued by the Cabinet Secretariat said Tuesday. Chauhan has been empowered to obtain the assistance...

New Delhi: CBSE chairman Rahul Singh and Secretary Himanshu Gupta were Tuesday shunted out of the national educational board in the wake of alleged irregularities in the digital evaluation system for the Class 12 examination process, officials said. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) engulfed into a controversy after some class 12 students alleged that the...

New Delhi: Sarthak Sidhant, a 17-year-old student from Jharkhand affected by the CBSE's online marking system, made a presentation before a parliamentary panel Tuesday on alleged irregularities in the tendering process for vendor selection for online marking in the Class-12 exams. Sarthak, who himself appeared in the exams, pointed out the anomalies in the tendering process of...

New Delhi: The government will gradually phase out the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and introduce a detailed Producer Price Index (PPI) covering output, input and services prices, in a bid to offer a more realistic assessment of inflationary trends in the economy. Addressing media on the subject, Praveen Mahto, Principal Economic Adviser in the Commerce and Industry...

Thuamul Rampur: A heart-wrenching incident unfolded in Kalahandi Monday when a private Bolero driver allegedly abandoned the body of a deceased patient, along with his elderly wife and relatives, in a lonely forest near Tentulipadar Chhak on the Thuamul Rampur–Bhawanipatna road, leaving the grieving family helpless beside the corpse. The deceased has been identified as Brundaban Sahu...