Abhishek Banerjee (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee will inform Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla about the mob attack on him in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district and will also move court in connection with the incident, news agency ANI reported citing party sources.The development comes after Abhishek Banerjee was attacked with…
NEW DELHI: Action is set to follow against officials in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as the ministry of education has initiated an internal crackdown over alleged irregularities in a controversial tender process and serious vulnerabilities in the board’s digital evaluation ecosystem.According to ministry sources, a detailed report from CBSE on the tender…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking that the NEET UG 2026 re-examination, scheduled for June 21, be conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode instead of the traditional pen-and-paper format.The plea was mentioned before a partial-working-day bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Arvind Kumar, which declined to…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Myanmar’s President U Min Aung Hlaing on Monday.The leaders met at the Hyderabad House here in the national capital as President U Min Aung Hlaing is visiting India from May 30 to June 2 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.This marks Min Aung Hlaing’s first visit…
NEW DELHI : The Association of Indian Universities, already under the scanner over alleged financial and administrative irregularities, is now facing accusations of a potentially much larger scandal involving certification of sportspersons, with AIU president Vinay Kumar Pathak alleging that deserving university athletes may have been denied recognition and opportunities for years through systemic manipulation…
Petrol and diesel are least affordable to the average citizen in India among the 10 largest economies of the world. An average Indian — someone whose income matches the country’s per capita — can buy only about 8 litres of petrol or diesel with their daily income, while the average American can buy 199 litres…
The Supreme Court is set to get five new judges after the Central Government cleared the names recommended by the SC Collegium, taking the apex court close to its newly expanded sanctioned strength of 38.Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced on X that the President has approved the appointment of four high court Chief Justices…
Rahul Gandhi with CBSE students. NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leadr of opposition Rahul Gandhi Monday targeted the CBSE for charging students a range of fees for re-evaluation, even when discrepancies stem from the board’s own errors.Targeting the entire process of charging the students, the Congress leader said: “When education is turned from a service into…
NEW DELHI: Govt is looking at pruning the list of vehicles exempted from paying tolls on national highways, and to begin vehicles attached to senior Central and state govt officers are likely to be taken out from the “exempted category”, TOI has learnt.A high level committee set up by the central govt has recommended the…
NEW DELHI: Congress’s Rahul Gandhi Sunday took on PM Narendra Modi over the CBSE OSM row, saying PM had the time to speak about everything during his monthly radio address Mann Ki BaatSunday but the 18.5 lakh children whose answer sheets were not assessed properly by CBSE.In a post on X, the leader of opposition…
