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TN orders action to stop students joining left-wing protests The Vijay-led Tamil Nadu government has directed the School education department, higher education department, police department and district administrations to take coordinated measures to prevent school and college students and youth from participating in protests and agitation programmes.According to an official communication issued by the Department…

CM Vijay’s big MLA package: Govt cars, Rs 75,000 monthly vehicle allowance announced NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday announced that all Members of the Legislative Assembly will be provided government vehicles to help them travel to their constituencies and carry out public service work.Under the announcement, each MLA will…

Mumbai Police has written to Special Public Prosecutor to initiate the process against the accused who remain absconding including Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.(File photo) NEW DELHI: India will continue to take “whatever action is required” to defeat terrorism, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Tuesday as Mumbai Police initiated proceedings for an in…

FSSAI, having scrutinised product claims, categorisation, ingredients, labelling and packaging, has required businesses to address deficiencies following regulatory intervention. (Photo: IANS) NEW DELHI: Misleading claims, incorrect product descriptions, ingredient declarations and packaging material have come under the scanner of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), with several businesses taking corrective action after…

Out of 72 private homeopathy medical colleges in Maharashtra, at least 34 (47%) are established by trusts or societies that have political connections cutting across party lines. (Representative Image) Out of 72 private homeopathy medical colleges in Maharashtra, at least 34 (47%) are established by trusts or societies that have political connections cutting across party…

A parliamentary panel said the gap between landing cost and MRP needs to be reduced to make medicines and medical devices more affordable. (Representative Image) NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has recommended that the gap between the landing price, or the cost at which a medicine or medical device reaches the market, and its MRP…

ED searches 10 premises linked To Azam Khan NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur and Saharanpur and Delhi in connection with Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan.Officials said around 10 premises in Rampur and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi were being searched as part of a case…

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren along with cabinet ministers. (Photo: PTI) RANCHI: The Jharkhand government on Tuesday released a list of 44 recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) that were cancelled following irregularities, amid student protests over the issue.The cancelled examinations include recruitment tests for…

NEW DELHI: Nearly two years after Satyendar Jain, former minister in erstwhile AAP govt, was released on bail from Tihar Jail in an alleged ED money laundering case filed, Delhi govt’s Anti-Corruption Branch Tuesday arrested him, along with Delhi Jal Board ex-CEO Udit Prakash Rai and four others in an alleged DJB scam.Jain had spent…

Just 2mg of fentanyl — an amount that can fit on a pencil tip — is enough to kill an adult. In Dec 2025, the latest month for which full data is available, over 70,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in US, with authorities saying that “approximately 69% of all overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, overwhelmingly…