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New Delhi: After renewed issues surfaced over some examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi held a high-level review meeting Monday over its functioning and directed it to conduct a comprehensive audit of all examination processes. The agency is...

New Delhi: BJP Monday appointed academic Deepak Mhaskey as its social media department head, replacing Amit Malviya who had been steering the party's social media outreach for 11 years. Malviya congratulated his successor, a chemistry professor from Chhattisgarh, as well as the party's newly appointed...

Jaipur: Panic gripped Amer in Jaipur Monday morning after a live bomb was discovered in a village field near the CRPF campus. A local woman spotted the suspicious object while passing through Thakrala ki Dhani in Ward No. 148 at around 10:30 a.m. She alerted...

Mumbai: A fire broke out in the basement of the seven-storey Income Tax Office building at Churchgate in south Mumbai Monday afternoon, prompting evacuation of several people using the staircase and specialised ladders, officials said. "An inquiry is going on with the police, Income Tax...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday defended his government's move to approach the Centre for notifying a one-km radius around the Kaziranga National Park as an eco-sensitive zone. He maintained that the government was well within the Supreme Court's directives in this regard...

New Delhi: The government has cleared 31 fresh proposals under the electronics components manufacturing scheme, entailing investments of Rs 7,877 crore, the secretary in the IT ministry, S Krishnan, said Monday. According to Krishnan, the government has received a total investment proposal of Rs 69,548...

New Delhi: Several student organisations on Monday held protests here and announced nationwide demonstrations against the National Testing Agency's decision to re-conduct the UGC-NET examinations for three subjects, alleging that repeated lapses have put students' academic and career plans at risk. The NTA has ordered...

New Delhi: Overall unemployment rate among persons aged 15 years and above declined to 5.1 per cent in July 2026 from 5.5 per cent in the previous month, according to a government survey. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the National...

New Delhi: BJP Monday overhauled its national team under party president Nitin Nabin, bringing in many new faces and some prominent leaders like former Union minister Smriti Irani as general secretary and former RSS functionary Ram Madhav as vice president. The party, which said it...

Indas (WB): A leader of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Monday gave the West Bengal government 10 days to arrest all those allegedly involved in the death of the father of a party volunteer in Bankura district and demanded a probe into the conduct of...