The union cabinet on Friday gave its nod to an ordinance to defer, for one year, implementation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which has been made mandatory for medical entrance across India following strong objections from some states, sources said. The ordinance, which puts on hold the Supreme Court’s May 9 ruling ordering the […]
One person was killed and scores of others injured as a powerful thunderstorm wrecked havoc in Hyderabad on Friday, uprooting hundreds of trees and disrupting electricity supply. A man was killed when a water tanker fell on him in Bhavani Nagar in the old city. Two labourers sustained grevious injuries as they fell from third […]
A senior operative of the Indian Mujahideen, Abdul Wahid Siddibapa, was arrested here on Friday after being deported from Dubai. A court later sent him to a week’s NIA custody. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Siddibapa, 32, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. A cousin of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, he was described […]
The CPI-M will on Friday choose Kerala’s 22nd chief minister between veteran leader V.S. Achuthanandan and politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan. Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury has already arrived for the meeting of the party’s state committee and his predecessor Prakash Karat will also join the meeting to decide who will lead the […]
An Indian Army mountaineering team led by an officer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir Thursday scaled Mount Everest. Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of army’s Udhampur-headquartered Northern Command told IANS in winter capital Jammu on Thursday: “Indian Army Mountaineering team scaled Mount Everest today at 6.07 a.m. in spite of inclement weather conditions after a hiatus […]
The Congress on Friday asked the Election Commission to bar Prime Minister Narendra Modi from campaigning in Kerala for the May 16 assembly polls following his remarks comparing the state to Somalia. In a memorandum submitted to the poll panel, the party also sought “appropriate action” against Modi for violating the model code of conduct. […]
Friday, the 13th, turned out to be hot as hell for Delhiites with the maximum temperature soaring to 43 degrees Celsius — making it the hottest May 13 since 2011, the Met office said. The maximum temperature on Friday was recorded four notches above the season’s average while the minimum temperature of the day settled […]
Global pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare on Friday posted a 11 percent increase in its net profit at Rs 388.7 crore for the fourth quarter ended March as compared to Rs.350.4 crore in the year-ago period, on account of robust sales. Total income rose seven percent to Rs.2,449 crore in the quarter under review from Rs.2,288 […]
India has unveiled a new National Intellectual Property Rights Policy to safeguard commercial interests arising from creativity — like music, books, industrial drawings, software and even drugs and pharmaceuticals. IT industry body Nasscom welcomed the policy. The country, in the process, also wants to meet its global obligation towards protecting innovation, while also placing it […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the candidates who cleared the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams. “Congrats to all those who cleared the Civil Services Exam. My good wishes as they commence a new and exciting phase of their lives,” Modi tweeted. The prime minister also consoled those who couldn’t make the […]