Category: Events

Dharmendra Pradhan NEW DELHI: Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday defended CBSE‘s newly introduced ‘On-Screen Marking (OSM)’ system as a “progressive instrument” aimed at bringing greater transparency and accountability to the evaluation process, even as he took responsibility for glitches in the evaluation mechanism that have left students and parents worried.“I take responsibility. It will...

NEW DELHI: Child marriage persists in several Indian states despite years of campaigns promoting girls’ education and delayed marriage, with West Bengal and Jharkhand reporting the country’s highest share of girls marrying before the legal age of 18 years, according to the latest Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report 2024.The report – released by the...

Virat Kohli (AP/PTI) Virat Kohli’s fierce competitive streak has long defined his battles against Australia, with the former India captain repeatedly thriving in hostile conditions and high-pressure moments Down Under. Whether it was his recent verbal exchange with Travis Head during an IPL clash or his unforgettable duels during Test series in Australia, Kohli has...

NEW DELHI: Even after a sharp decline over the past decade, Indians continue to spend more from their own pockets on healthcare than people in several neighbouring and developing countries, according to the National Health Accounts (NHA) Estimates 2022-23 released by the health ministry.The report’s international comparison of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) showed India’s per capita...

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Thursday accused fellow party MP Kalyan Banerjee of “verbally abusing” her inside Lok Sabha and urged Speaker Om Birla to punish him, saying other women members of the House too have been at the receiving end of his “misogyny”.Her complaint underscored the deep churn within TMC,...

Major Abhilasha Barak New Delhi: United Nations will posthumously honour two Indian peacekeepers on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday for making the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan,...

NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday appointed Kewal Singh Dhillon, a Jat Sikh from the politically decisive Malwa region, its Punjab president, signalling its ambitious outreach to Sikhs as the state gears up for assembly polls and named Union minister Harsh Malhotra its Delhi unit president as part of top-level changes it made in four states,...

Blake Lively reportedly reaches breaking point amid fallout with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.(Image via Getty Images) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have remained distant and private about their feelings for the Hollywood power couple, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, as they gear up to get married.As speculations swirl about whether Blake Lively and Ryan...

A 21-year-old Austrian man who admitted plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during the singer’s Eras Tour has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.The man was identified in court only as ‘Beran A’ under Austrian privacy laws. He pleaded guilty to planning an attack on one of Swift’s sold-out...

Representative image Noting that the right to trauma care of a citizen is an integral part of right to life, the Supreme Court has directed states and UTs to integrate within three months all emergency/ambulance helplines into one helpline number ‘112’ for emergency responses.A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and A S Chandurkar also...