The Centre told the Supreme Court that the NEET examination security system is “foolproof” and difficult to breach. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the system in place for conducting the NEET examination is “foolproof” and difficult to breach, citing multiple safeguards for the preparation, transportation and handling of question…
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…
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…
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…
Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, left, reviews structural reforms at the National Testing Agency (NTA). NEW DELHI: National Testing Agency (NTA) has removed 600 experts from its panels and begun onboarding new specialists, while deciding to subject every paper to four levels of scrutiny before an examination.NTA director general apprised education minister Pralhad Joshi on…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court will on Wednesday constitute a high-powered committee led by a retired SC judge and comprising a former HC chief justice and a senior police officer to inquire into allegations and counter-allegations on police action on student protesters at the CJP-led Parliament march July 20, and recommend guidelines for graded use of…
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…
NEW DELHI: Following incidents of newly built highway stretches developing cracks, potholes, premature failures, rutting and other deficien-cies, govt is looking at the option of carrying out trial runs on highways for a longer per-iod before they are officially inaugurated. That is, normal traffic may be allowed on the stretches for two-three mon-ths to identify…
