New Delhi: Union Minister Prahlad Joshi has been appointed as Education Minister following Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation from the post Saturday. Joshi has been given additional charge of the Education Ministry besides his role as Consumer Affairs Minister. A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said the President, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has accepted the resignation of Pradhan...

Puri: Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra were adorned in the grand 'Suna Besha' (Golden Attire) on their chariots in Odisha's pilgrim town of Puri Saturday, a day after the Bahuda Yatra. The Sibling Deities were decorated with ornate gold ornaments while seated on their chariots parked outside the Singhadwar (Lion's Gate) of the 12th-century Shree...

Bhubaneswar: VK Pandian Saturday informed Odisha Police that he would fully cooperate with the probe into the alleged missing inquiry commission reports case but expressed his inability to appear before the investigating officer in Bhubaneswar on the scheduled day. The Capital police station had summoned bureaucrat-turned-politician Pandian to appear before the investigating officer at 1 pm on...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday said the students' agitation against paper leaks has given a warning to the BJP-RSS regime that they cannot run the government as their personal fiefdom, and in case they did, they would face 10 times the scale of what happened during the stir. Gandhi said Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan...

New Delhi: Jubilant scenes erupted at Jantar Mantar Saturday as protesting students, youth leaders, and participants celebrated the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after weeks of demonstrations over examination paper leaks. As the celebrations continued, authorities began overseeing the winding down of the demonstration, urging protesters to disperse peacefully, while the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation...

Harare: An all-round India crushed Zimbabwe by 90 runs in the second T20I to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, here Saturday. The third and final T20I will be played here Sunday. Chasing 220, Zimbabwe were off to a strong start courtesy Brian Bennett, who struck 32 off 19 balls with three sixes and...

New Delhi: The Ajit Agarkar-led senior men’s selection committee will announce India’s Test squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka by Tuesday, said BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia Saturday. The Shubman Gill-led squad is scheduled to play two Test matches in Sri Lanka as part of their ICC World Test Championship (WTC) commitments. “By Tuesday, we'll announce...

Harare: Ishan Kishan and Tilak Verma led an intent-filled batting effort with well-paced 81 and an unbeaten 60 respectively, as India posted a strong 219 for five against Zimbabwe in the second T20I here Saturday. Asked to bat first India were in early trouble at 29 for two. But Kishan first made 66 runs for the third...

New Delhi: Left leaders Friday hailed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation as a "historic victory" for the student-youth movement, while asserting that the struggle would continue until all the protesters' demands were met. CPI(M) general secretary M A Baby congratulated students and youth across the country on what he described as a "major victory", saying Pradhan's...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said the state had, for the first time, invoked its newly enacted anti-goonda law against those accused of orchestrating violence during Friday's NEET protest, warning they would face punishment their next three generations will remember. Making a statement in the Assembly  Saturday, Adhikari said around 70 people identified from the...