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New Delhi: Top officials of the Health and Education ministries, National Testing Agency and National Medical Commission will brief a parliamentary panel Wednesday over the conduct of the NEET-UG re-examination June 21. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summoned the...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leaders Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad Tuesday launched a blistering attack on rebel party MPs, accusing them of lacking political morality, maintaining links with the BJP and abandoning party workers at a time when they were allegedly facing harassment and political...

Patna:  A Patna court Tuesday granted interim relief to popular educator Faisal Khan, widely known as Khan Sir, by staying his arrest in connection with the recent coaching centre firing case. The District Judge's court pronounced its order Tuesday after reserving its verdict on Khan...

United Nations: India has launched a scathing attack on Pakistan at the UN, condemning its "trade and transit terrorism" and military airstrikes against Afghanistan. India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, delivered a sharp attack against Pakistan in the UN Security Council during...

New Delhi: Twenty-four Indian crew members of a Palau-flagged merchant tanker have been rescued in coordination with Omani authorities, following a "missile attack" on the vessel off the coast of Oman, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said Tuesday. On June 8, the Maritime Rescue Coordination...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that physical relationship between two consenting unmarried adults cannot be a ground to draw an adverse impression about the character of the person in that relationship. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Manoj Misra observed while directing the...

New Delhi: The government has reduced the number of subsidised cooking gas cylinders available annually to beneficiaries of its flagship Ujjwala scheme to four, aligning support with average household consumption levels, a senior government official said Monday. Under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), launched...

Visakhapatnam: At least eight workers of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Vizag Steel Plant) were killed and six others injured here Monday after molten iron spilt on them, officials said. Police said some of the injured workers suffered grievously. "Eight workers were killed, and six...

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Monday held a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Sakina Itoo and discussed issues pertaining to teacher education institutions. He also reviewed the progress of school and higher education initiatives in the Union Territory. The meeting focused...

Visakhapatnam: At least six workers of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (Vizag Steel Plant) were killed here Monday after molten iron spilt on them, officials said. According to the information shared with Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav by Visakhapatnam district health officials, till 6.30 pm Monday,...