NEW DELHI: All 14 IAS officers from West Bengal appointed by the Election Commission as central observers for the upcoming assembly polls in four states and a Union territory, including state home secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena, attended the observers’ briefing organised by Election Commission here on Friday.One lady IAS officer from West Bengal was earlier…
JAMMU: Border-related challenges had changed significantly over the past 60 years, and therefore advanced technological solutions must be adopted to effectively address them, Union home minister Amit Shah said Friday as he visited the Gurnam and Bobiyan outposts located along the India-Pakistan International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.Later in the evening, Shah…
NEW DELHI: From marks anxiety to gaming ambitions, PM Modi used Pariksha Pe Charcha 2026 to tell students not to believe life was a single-subject exam. Whether the debate is between “skills vs marks” or “studies vs gaming”, balance, discipline and purpose will always hold them in good stead. Responding to students torn between competing…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday urged students not to view success in exams as the sole purpose of their education and said an individual’s character and temperament, and not just grades, determine success in life. “Education is not only for exams but for life. Exams are meant to examine oneself,” Modi said at…
NEW DELHI: Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Friday objected to upcoming Netflix film ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’, calling the title offensive and an attack on a “most respectable segment” of society, and demanded govt action. BJP said govt asked the OTT platform to remove the teaser and other promotional contents of the film from social media, govt sources…
NEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor-headed Jan Suraaj Party on Friday was criticised by the Supreme Court for filing a writ petition seeking annulment of recently concluded Bihar assembly elections on the ground that the poll-eve Rs 10,000 dole to women was a corrupt practice that altered the level-playing field. “How many votes did your party get?…
NEW DELHI: In a coordinated escalation of hostilities coinciding with so-called “Kashmir Solidarity Day”, top commanders from Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) engaged in incendiary anti-India rhetoric during public gatherings in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, inciting direct violence against India and global powers.The rhetoric, which included open calls for jihad and threats to strike major…
NEW DELHI: Despite a Supreme Court bench in Jan asking Centre to consider introducing a “Romeo-Juliet” clause to exempt “genuine adolescent relationships” from Pocso’s harshest provisions, govt in response to a question in Lok Sabha on Friday said “any dilution of the age of consent or introduction of exceptions would undermine child safety, increase the…
NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh govt on Friday moved Supreme Court questioning the HC’s decision not to permit it to withdraw in entirety 65 FIRs, involving non-serious offences, lodged against MPs, MLAs and politicians. On July 20, 2023, the Congress govt headed by Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu moved a petition before the HC seeking permission to withdraw…
When the cut-off percentile for NEET PG was reduced to zero in 2023, private colleges benefited more than govt colleges. Around 64% of seats filled by students who scored below the initial cut-off were in private colleges. Not only that, 2,677 or about 85% of seats in clinical specialties bagged by those with scores below…