NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old Agniveer who had been untraceable for the last three days was found dead inside a vacant barrack at the Sikh Light Infantry Regimental Centre in Fatehgarh on Thursday, officials told news agency PTI.The deceased, identified as Jasanpreet Singh, hailed from Bhagatgarh village in Punjab’s Barnala district and was serving with the…
Has the time come for Congress’s breakaway parties to return to the fold? NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is not merging with the Congress. That’s final for now. Both the parties have firmly rejected speculations about a merger, dismissing them as “baseless rumours” and “fake news”.But not before the speculations triggered a larger and…
Lesson from India’s exam scandal (PTI) The NEET-UG paper leak, which has sparked protests, court battles and a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has brought the examination system under unprecedented scrutiny.The controversy has exposed deeper structural flaws in a testing ecosystem that determines admission to colleges and the futures of millions of…
Ex-Bengal minister Udayan Guha (wearing helmet) outside court in Dinhata, West Bengal NEW DELHI: Eggs were pelted on Thursday at Udayan Guha, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former West Bengal minister, marking the latest incident of a TMC leader being targeted with eggs after the party was voted out of power in the assembly…
TMC rebellion spills over to party accounts, Shiv Sena UBT’s strength test falters TMC leader asks bank to freeze party accounts amid rebellion, cites ‘serious dispute’ Only 3 of 9 MPs attend Uddhav Thackeray‘s parliamentary meeting despite whip India eyes $2.5 billion loans from World Bank and ADB as subsidy costs rise BCCI secretary breaks…
Eknath Shinde, Sanjay Raut, Uddhav Thackeray NEW DELHI: Four years after the rebellion led by Eknath Shinde split the Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray‘s faction is facing the prospect of another major political rupture.At least six of the nine Lok Sabha MPs of Shiv Sena (UBT) are reported to have formed a separate group and are…
The Delhi high court had issued a notice to the Centre regarding Telegram’s challenge to a temporary blocking order (File photo) NEW DELHI: The central government Thursday told the Delhi high court that social media platform Telegram has now become a “new dark web” making it hard for the authorities to “track and attribute” criminals.In…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar during the biennial elections to seven seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council, in Bengaluru. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Thursday expressed willingness to discuss Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu dam project over the Cauvery with Tamil Nadu.The river remains at the centre of a…
Photo credit: pmuy.gov.in The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) is one of India’s most significant social welfare initiatives aimed at providing clean cooking fuel to poor households. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, the scheme seeks to improve the health, dignity, and quality of life of…
Thane Police have registered a case against eight persons, including the owners and employees of a shipping company in Navi Mumbai. On Thursday, officials told PTI the accused allegedly duped 75 job aspirants of Rs 1.73 crore by promising lucrative jobs.According to a Kharghar police station official, the accused allegedly ran the operation from their…
