NEW DELHI — One person died and five were injured after a portion of the roof of the Delhi airport’s Terminal-1 collapsed on cars, including taxis, amid heavy rain early Friday, Delhi Fire Services (DFS) officials said. They said a search operation was conducted to make sure no one was trapped in the damaged vehicles. […]
NEW DELHI — Miscreants allegedly vandalised the official residence of Asaduddin Owaisi, the AIMIM MP from Hyderabad, in Delhi’s high-security Ashoka Road on Thursday night with black ink besides pasting posters demanding cancellation of his Lok Sabha membership. The alleged vandals also posted posters reading ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ with the demand that Owaisi’s Lok […]
LONDON — Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy, currently facing the threat of prosecution over historic comments on Kashmir 14 years ago, was on Thursday honoured with the prestigious Pen Pinter Prize 2024 for her “unflinching and unswerving” writings. The prize, established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Tuesday evening announced that senior party leader Rahul Gandhi will be the Leader of the Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha. “Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been appointed as the LoP in the Lok Sabha,” said party General Secretary (Organisation), K.C. Venugopal. The decision was taken at a meeting […]
NEW DELHI — The Union Health Ministry on Saturday said it has decided to postpone the NEET-PG entrance examination, scheduled to be held on June 23, as a “precautionary measure” in the wake of recent allegations on the integrity of certain competitive exams. Ministry of Health has decided to undertake a thorough assessment of the […]
NEW DELHI — National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Subodh Singh was shunted out on Saturday, amid a massive controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams NEET and NET. An official said he has been put on “compulsory wait” in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) till further orders. India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) […]
NEW DELHI — Amid the controversies surrounding the NEET and UGC-NET exams, the Centre has notified the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, passed in February to prevent paper leaks and cheating. The stringent law came into effect on Friday. Under the law, any person or persons found guilty of leaking a paper […]
BENGALURU — A 30-year-old employee of the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly posting comments in support of Pakistan against India on X. According to The Indian Express report, the arrested person has been identified as Faheem Firdous Qureshi, originally from Kashmir. The police received a complaint from the BIEC […]
NEW DELHI — The CBI registered an FIR into the UGC-NET paper leak case on Thursday against unidentified persons on a reference from the Union Education Ministry, officials said. The UGC-NET, 2024, exam for the selection of junior research fellows, assistant professors and PhD scholars was conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on June […]
NEW DELHI/PATNA — The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2024 paper leak fiasco saw a fresh twist on Thursday with the accused persons confessing before the police that question papers were arranged for certain candidates a day before the exam for which the aspirants shelled out close to Rs 30-32 lakh. The shocking confession came from […]