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New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Tuesday sharply criticised Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party for allegedly using students as “political tools” during the ongoing protests over the NEET paper leak. The...

New Delhi: The NTA Monday rejected claims of five re-NEET candidates alleging discrepancies in their OMR answer sheets, saying the images circulated by them or on their behalf had been digitally altered, regenerated using AI or manipulated by adding responses that were not present on...

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted market authorisation to Takeda Biopharmaceuticals India’s QDENGA (TAK-003), making it the first dengue vaccine to be approved in the country, according to a press release issued by the company. Reported dengue cases in India...

New Delhi: Connaught Place, one of the capital's busiest commercial hubs, and the Janpath area bore the brunt of the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) "Chalo Sansad" protest Monday as thousands of demonstrators poured into the area and allegedly pelted stones at security personnel and damaged...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said it would direct the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to comply with an Orissa High Court order requiring changes to the model consent form for the generation of Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR) IDs, giving parents...

New Delhi: Left parties Monday condemned the police action against protesters during the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) "Sansad Chalo" march, accusing the BJP-led Centre of suppressing democratic dissent and reiterating their demand for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Senior CPI(M) leaders, including...

New Delhi: Activist Sonam Wangchuk announced Monday that he would continue his indefinite hunger strike, saying the police action against protesters during the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) "Sansad Chalo" march has prompted him to extend the fast until youth leaders are allowed to meet parliamentarians...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) protest site was dismantled by the police Monday, hours after protesters' march to Parliament was thwarted with tear gas and baton charges. Protesters, however, regrouped at Jantar Mantar after the march. One of their leaders said they will stay...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the "most anti-youth" PM in the country's history as he accused the government of not just failing the youth but also pouncing on them. Gandhi's remarks came after security forces resorted to...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court Monday asked the Safdarjung Hospital here to file Sonam Wangchuk's pathological reports and health bulletins and said that it would take a call Tuesday on the plea by the fasting activist's wife Gitanjali Angmo to shift him to a private...