As per the planning underway for the exams for admission to engineering, medical and various undergraduate programmes for the academic session 2023-24, the JEE-mains will be conducted twice, while NEET-UG and CUET-UG will continue to be once in a year exam.
The call for a CBI probe gained traction after Telangana police recently arrested three people for allegedly trying to bribe four TRS MLAs with Rs 100 crore each for defecting to BJP ahead of the high-stakes Munugode bypolls. Dismissing the charges, BJP functionaries moved the Telangana high court and requested a CBI inquiry.
The Z+ cover of Shinde, Fadnavis and governor B S Koshyari has also been been retained. There is no change in the Y+ cover of MNS chief Raj Thackeray, Uddhav’s wife Rashmi and son Tejas, and Shinde’s MLA son Shrikant. The security of Fadnavis’s wife Amruta has been increased to Y+ from X.
A day before the hearing of a bunch of petitions challenging the CAA on the ground of exclusion of Muslims from the minorities permitted to get Indian citizenship if they had entered India on or before December 31, 2014, the government said, “The CAA is a narrowly tailored legislation seeking to address the specific problem which awaited India’s attention for a solution since several decades.”
“Today India is working with a new mindset and new work culture,” the PM said. “India is making fighter jets, tanks, submarines, medicines, vaccines, electronic gadgets, mobile phones and cars that are popular in many countries.”
Morbi MLA and minister of state Brijesh Merja confirmed 60-odd deaths as the prospect of finding survivors appeared to dim around 10.30pm, almost four hours after the bridge came down in a cacophony of snapping iron cables and horrified screams. Officials said the tragedy occurred between 6.30 and 7pm.
“We are committed to taking benefits of development equally to all sections and citizens,” PM Modi said, referring to a record increase in the number of tourists visiting J&K, which he attributed to infrastructure development and increased connectivity in recent times.
Following a criminal revision petition filed by Cyberabad police challenging the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court’s order, Justice C Sumalatha said the three accused should immediately surrender to the Cyberabad police commissioner and be sent to jail till the next time the police presents them before a court.
The sanctions regime has seen leaders of Pakistanbased groups like Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) banned by the UN even though many others, some of whom are accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, have been shielded by China from similar action by the UN. He said despite the UN action, the threat of terrorism was only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Sam Santhosh, the brain behind the project, is a US-based Malayali entrepreneur from Thrissur. Since 2016, his team has collected and planted 678 of the 742 plant species (of which three are repetitions) mentioned in the book. The search for the remaining 61 plants might take another two years, he said.
In a rejoinder affidavit, the ED said that transfer of trial was needed as high-profile persons, including the former principal secretary of the CM, were involved and they were trying to influence the accused and witnesses.
The hypothesis they are going by is that Mubin was radicalised after being exposed to IS literature, but hadn’t received training in terrorist tactics. Whatever he knew about handling explosives was by reading material available on the internet about bomb-making.
Cautioning states and UTs of emerging threats, including cyberattacks, from inimical forces as India marches ahead on the path of economic growth and competes with global powers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told their law enforcement agencies to anticipate and understand the challenges that may stem from a sense of global competition but eventually turn into enmity.
At the party function where Kharge was inaugurated as the Congress president, the first non-Gandhi chief in 24 years, AICC passed a resolution showering praises on Sonia for her contributions - lifting the party in bad times and for giving the country a leadership that resulted in landmark decisions on social welfare and ushered in systemic transparency during the UPA governments.
After dinner, Arun could not get into his Santro outside the restaurant as another car was parked so close that it blocked the door. Arun is believed to have gone back to ask about the owner of the car, leading to a heated exchange, which began with expletives and escalated quickly outside the eatery. Before anyone knew it, a man picked up a brick lying on the road and repeatedly smashed it on Arun’s head.
As the minister has said in the past, the ‘three mutuals’ include mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest. While disengagement has been achieved at several friction points, India maintains that the process has to be completed in the remaining areas for restoring normalcy in ties.
Responding to a question, Dr Jha said the QUAD partnership - a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan and the US -- on coronavirus was important to the Joe Biden administration.
Sources said the CVC had recently written to the federal auditor emphasising its preventive vigilance role as the anti-corruption watchdog while seeking access to such exclusive exit conferences. The CVC also monitors and recommends multi-agency probes on complaints of irregularities and corruption in central procurements and contract management.
The report, released early Wednesday, noted that globally such heat-related deaths had increased 68% during 2017-21, reaching 3,10,000 deaths annually. It said the death toll was significantly exacerbated by the confluence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
CCTV camera footage purportedly shows deceased Jameesha Mubin, whom the NIA had interrogated in 2019, and three of the arrested IS suspects placing two LPG cylinders and three drums filled with “light explosives” in the car around 11.30pm on Saturday, Coimbatore police commissioner V Balakrishnan said.
A four-year-old child playing outside his house was abducted and later shot dead by his father's friend in Agra on Saturday.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) successfully placed 36 OneWeb satellites, meant to offer global internet service, using its heaviest rocket - Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mk-3) - for the first time past midnight on Sunday in a 1.5-hour long launch.
A school in Hyderabad's upscale Banjara Hills where a four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by the principal's driver will lose its licence and its 500-odd students will be transferred to other schools.
Four defence personnel were killed and one was reported missing after a Dhruv advanced light helicopter of the Army crashed early on Friday in a remote area of Upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, making it the second air disaster in the northeastern frontier state in less than three weeks and the 12th in 14 years.
Home minister Amit Shah Friday stressed that cross-border propagation of terrorist ideologies through online radicalisation can't be considered a "political problem" and said all countries must come together to have a common definition of terror and terrorists.
In a move that is likely to benefit about 1.6 lakh Punjab government employees who joined service after 2004, the state cabinet on Friday decided in principle to restore the old pension scheme (OPS).
In the first cyberterrorism conviction in Maharashtra, computer engineer Anees Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for conspiring to kill children at the American school in Bandra Kurla Complex in 2014.
Keeping to his announcement to fill up vacancies in the government on mission mode, PM Narendra Modi will launch 'Rozgar Mela', a recruitment drive for providing employment to 10 lakh people, on Dhanteras. The employment drive will be held on Saturday morning and appointment letters will be handed over to 75,000 newly inducted employees.
