New Delhi: Sonam Wangchuk Tuesday expressed support for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) campaign demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and said he would join the group's planned protest in Delhi June 6 if the minister does not step down by then....
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrats Lokhande Prashant Sitaram and Varun Bhardwaj were Tuesday appointed as the CBSE's new chairperson and secretary, after the incumbents were shunted out amid the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system row. Sitaram, a 2001 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Arunachal...
Surat: At least seven persons were killed, and around 40 were injured after two buses operated by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) collided near Bardoli town in Gujarat's Surat district Tuesday, and one of them caught fire, police said. The incident occurred on...
New Delhi: India Tuesday categorically rejected any role for third parties to resolve its boundary row with Nepal, days after Nepalese Prime Minister Balendra Shah sought involvement of China and the UK to address the long-standing dispute. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said both...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
New Delhi: Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodriguez will travel to India for a working visit from June 3-7 and will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to discuss bilateral ties, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi...
By Dilip Cherian The Centre’s decision to significantly expand the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a lot more than a routine...
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The ongoing visit of Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing to India is fraught with geopolitical significance. India's reputation as a...
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An unwarranted observation by the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has stirred the Indian youth out of its seeming...
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Prominent Muslim voices have asked the Prime Minister of India to declare the cow a national animal and subsequently ban...
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