Category: Events

Delhi woman mistaken for child-lifter, stripped KORAPUT: Odisha Police Thursday arrested 16 people who were part of a mob that chased and assaulted a woman from Delhi and her male colleague from Gujarat, mistaking them for child kidnappers, in a remote village in Rayagada district on June 16. The accused also half-stripped the woman.The two...

Abdullah Mohammad Talib gets Abu Dhabi as exam centre NAGPUR: An 18-year-old NEET aspirant from Nagpur, Abdullah Mohammad Talib, got a shock when he saw his recently generated hall ticket: his examination centre was in Abu Dhabi, 2,500 km away, and he doesn’t have a passport. The National Testing Agency does provide exam centres abroad,...

NTA ‘significantly’ expanded the pool from which the final 180-question paper was drawn NEW DELHI: A larger question bank, more paper-setters and restrictions ensuring nobody can know or see the final paper formed the core of the redesigned question-setting system for the June 21 NEET-UG retest – a part of the high-security process undertaken following...

BY Vijayendra, LoP R Ashoka Bengaluru: BJP brass has summoned Karnataka state chief BY Vijayendra, LoP R Ashoka and national general secretary Radhamohan Das Agarwal to Delhi on June 23 to explain cross-voting by NDA legislators in Thursday’s legislative council elections. Congress won five of seven seats despite NDA having 82 MLAs in the assembly.BJP’s...

Centre remains committed to Art 371 safeguards for Ladakh NEW DELHI: Despite reservations expressed by Ladakh representatives over omissions in the minutes of the May 22 talks with MHA officials, sources said Centre remains committed to providing Constitutional safeguards to the region under Article 371 and ensuring bureaucracy is accountable to the political executive. The...

This is just a trailer. Picture abhi baki hai. See what lies ahead, said Eknath Shinde MUMBAI: Though the six rebel Shiv Sena UBT MPs expected to switch over to Shiv Sena stayed away from the party’s 60th foundation day event in Goregaon Friday, Maharashtra deputy CM Eknath Shinde could not stay away from the...

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has become a sort of penfriend of his allies, but not in a way he would have liked. CPI-ML chief Dipankar Bhattacharya Friday shot off a protest letter to the Congress veteran complaining against the charge by his party that CPI-ML legislators in Jharkhand crossed in favour of BJP-supported...

Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant proposed creation of a statutory fund NEW DELHI: To remedy the charge that courts and tribunals are hostile to women and first-generation advocates, particularly those from poor and marginalised sections of society, a Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant proposed creation of a statutory fund...

At least 50 people have been injured in the incident Emergency services rushed to the scene after two trains collided north of London on Friday, disrupting a key rail route linking central London with communities in central England.Videos posted on social media appeared to show the aftermath of the crash.The collision occurred south of Bedford...

Image Used For Representational Purpose Only PUNE: A 27-year-old software engineer jumped to death from the third floor of a residential building in the Manikbaug area on Thursday afternoon.The brother of the deceased stated in his complaint with the Sinhagad Road police that she ended her life because her husband and her mother-in-law harassed her....