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Putting to rest all the trolls panning Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda for her admission to IIMA, a professor of the coveted institute has clarified that she got entry on merit, after duly clearing the cut-off for the same. Soon after Navya shared the happy news with a special post on Instagram […]
The Expert Committee of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has made suggestions in the medicine curriculum for undergraduate medical students, reintroducing several controversial topics. The updated curriculum reintroduces ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offenses and brings back discussions on the importance of the hymen and the definition of virginity. This change reverses modifications made […]
The World Bank has raised its India’s growth forecast for the current financial year to 7 per cent, from an earlier estimate to 6.6 per cent. The World Bank in the India Development Update report said that the growth was boosted by public infrastructure investment and an upswing in household investments in real estate. The […]
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has raised concerns with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak flagging objections of its Internal Audit Wing (IAW) regarding a variable pay of Rs 3.2 crore paid by the institute to its director, Dheeraj Sharma, over three years—2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21. The objections come from the ministry’s internal audit […]
A thief was found unconscious in a corridor of a museum in Bhopal, along with his looted artefacts worth around Rs 15 crore. He was reportedly trying to flee with a bag containing the artefacts from the State Museum in the Madhya Pradesh capital. The museum was closed on Monday, and when employees opened it […]
Days after the horrifying death of 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the West Bengal government on Tuesday passed the anti-rape bill in a special assembly session. The ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill 2024’ was introduced in the House by TMC leader […]
Unable to find jobs, 3.95 lakh people including 46,102 graduates and post graduates have applied for the job of sweepers in a state-run corporation Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN) established for providing contractual manpower. With hardly any other employment available, hundreds of thousands of young men and women desperate for work are applying for the […]
In a surprising turn of events, former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gujarat state president Gopal Italia has been promoted to the post of head constable by the Gujarat government’s home department. This information was given by Gopal Italia himself through a tweet on social media platform X, that also carries the screenshot of the government […]
In one of rare instances, a father and son duo from Gujarat – Dr Deepak Vyas and Dr Samisth Vyas – took the NEET-PG exam together earlier this year. Dr Samisth completed his MBBS in 2023 and is currently doing his internship, while his 51-yr-old father has close to three decades of experience as a […]
The Supreme Court has granted bail to Bibhav Kumar, a close aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested for allegedly assaulting Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing Kumar’s plea seeking bail and also challenging his arrest in the […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh after hours of questioning at the Special Crime Branch (SCB) office in Salt Lake’s CGO Complex. Three others – his security guard Afsar Ali, and hospital vendors Biplav Singha and Sumana Hazara – were also arrested. […]
The relatives of two accused in the firing outside Salman Khan’s house have alleged that a conspiracy was being hatched to get them killed by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s henchmen. They have written to the Maharashtra and Bihar governments, seeking their protection. On April 14, two bike-borne men opened fire outside Salman Khan’s residence in the […]
After poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has decided that it would contest the assembly elections under a collective leadership. The party has begun implementing its plan and announced its former state unit chief and former union minister Raosaheb Danve as the election coordinator. This is being viewed as a major setback […]
Jolted by the Lok Sabha election setback, the BJP has lowered its expectations for the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra and set the target of winning 100 of the state’s 288 Assembly constituencies. The party hopes to cross the halfway mark and get to 145 with the help of its allies Shiv Sena and Nationalist […]
The expansion of the Coimbatore International Airport, which has been pending for more than two decades, is all set to take off as the Tamil Nadu government has cleared the decks for the expansion of the Airport. The project had been a bone of contention between Tamil Nadu and the Narendra Modi-led government at the […]
The Malayalam film industry has been rocked by a volley of allegations of sexual misconduct. Several bigwigs have been accused of sexual misconduct, sending ripples across Mollywood. This led to the dissolution of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists or AMMA. Prominent actor Mohanlal stepped down as president of the panel. The flood of allegations against some […]
In a major setback to India’s ambitious Project Cheetah, Oban aka Pawan, was found dead near a drain inside Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Preliminary cause of death is suspected to be drowning. Officers are waiting for autopsy report. It’s the second cheetah death in Kuno this month after a cub died on August 5. A dozen, including […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has issued revised lists of 16 candidates for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) assembly elections to be held on September 18 hours after withdrawing the list with 44 nominees amid rumblings within the party. It first reissued a list of 15 candidates before releasing a second […]
A day after Mandi MP and actor Kangana Ranaut’s controversial comments on farmers’ protest, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership reprimanded her and reminded her of her brief. “The statement made by BJP MP Kangana Ranaut in the context of the farmers’ movement is not the opinion of the party. BJP disagrees with the statement […]
The India Employment Report 2024 is no longer available on the ILO’s website and its link has stopped working. The report, previously available on the website, is no longer to be found in any of the ILO’s online publication repositories. Further, the link reports an error, which reads: “This page isn’t working. www.ilo.org redirected you too many […]
