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New Delhi: The students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, an autonomous body under Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), have shown excellent results in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2019 conducted by IIT Roorkee. A data analysis of JEE (Advanced) result shows that out of 6094 KV students who appeared in JEE (Advanced) this year, 1019 […]

New Delhi: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Friday recommended making yoga part of school curriculum and said doing so is necessary in the wake of changing lifestyles and growing incidence of non-communicable diseases. Naidu was speaking at an event to mark the International Day of Yoga organised by the Ministry of Ayush and Brahma Kumaris […]

Muzaffarnagar: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from outside her house in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district and gang-raped by four men, police said Friday. The incident happened on Thursday and the girl was later found with her hands tied and face covered with clothes from a vacant house in Baghra village, which is under Titawi […]

New Delhi: Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal recently held a high level review meeting with senior railway officials and all General Managers of Zonal Railways/Production Units and Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) through Video Conferencing in Rail Bhawan. During the meeting, Goyal called upon the Zonal Railway officials to work as a […]

In a major notification, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) releasing the salient features of the Combined Graduate Level Examination (Tier-I), 2018, stated that the Tier II examination will be conducted as per schedule given in the calendar of examinations. The tentative date of result declaration has also been pre-poned by the Commission. As per the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday refused to extend the schedule of counselling for filling up as many as 603 vacant seats in post-graduate medical and dental courses in deemed universities and private colleges. A vacation bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Surya Kant disposed of a plea by the Education Promotion Society of India, […]

San Francisco: Confirming that there would be no upcoming sequel to its Pixel Slate, Google has seemingly abandoned its tablet-making efforts and focus mainly on making laptops. “Hey, it’s true. Google’s hardware team will be solely focused on building laptops moving forward, but make no mistake, Android and Chrome OS teams are 100 per cent […]

San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook has been accused of using a logo for its new cryptocurrency play, similar to the logo of an online banking company called ‘Current’. Earlier this week, Facebook announced its own global digital coin called ‘Libra’, to be managed by a governing body called the Libra Association. Calibra is the […]

New Delhi: Over 1.55 crore people have registered themselves on the first day of registration on CoWin portal for the third phase of Covid vaccination starting May 1. In the…

Continuing its recruitment drive, the Central Railways has released a notification to fill up vacancies in various Gr. C cadres. Interested and eligible candidates are advised to submit applications on or before June 28, 2019. Scroll down for details of the recruitment.. Vacancy Details: Senior Section Officer: 5 posts, Senior TIA: 3 posts, ASV: 2 […]

London: An Indian family on a vacation to Ireland has been allegedly racially abused in an hour-long tirade against their “accents, skin colour and nationality” by a beer-gulping man on a train to Dublin, according to a media report. Prasun Bhattachrjee, on a three-day visit to Ireland, with his family were on a train from […]

Deogarh: The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch today busted a racket involved in smuggling of leopard hide in Barkote area of Deogarh district. As many as three persons including two sons of retired officials of Prisons department have been arrested in connection with the racket. CB sleuths have also seized a 7-feet […]

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today chaired the Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting in New Delhi attended by the Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories and the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance and State governments among others. In her opening remarks at the Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting, the Finance Minister said, “Unprecedented level […]

New Delhi: The government on Friday introduced the bill to ban instant triple talaq and make the practice a punishable offence under the Indian Penal Code in the Lok Sabha, amidst the opposition’s criticism that it will harm Muslim families and that it was discriminatory. Soon after Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad tabled the Muslim […]

Washington: NASA astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the historic mission of Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in 1969, passed away on Wednesday due to cancer. He was 90. During the 1969…