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New Delhi: Soon after the government shunted out two top CBSE officials following the online marking row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday termed it a "cover up" exercise saying while officials have been removed the education minister has been spared. The Leader of Opposition in...

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...

Kolkata: The police Tuesday issued a summons to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas, asking him to appear before its officer over last year's "Messi fiasco" at the Salt Lake stadium. He was summoned days after Argentine footballer Lionel Messi's India Tour organiser Satadru...

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....

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...

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 Tuesday removed two top CBSE officials following alleged irregularities in the Class 12 digital evaluation system and ordered a probe by a high-powered committee to investigate how the national educational board procured these marking services. Simultaneously, a 17-year-old student from Jharkhand...