FILE PHOTO FOR REPRESENTATION New Delhi: Delhi University has revised its fee refund policy to address issues arising from academic reforms under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, including the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) and the multiple entry-exit framework. The policy lays down clear rules for students exiting programmes midway and introduces a formal refund…
Mumbai: Mahayuti on Wednesday released its official list of 17 MLC candidates for the 16 biennial and one bypoll election to be held on June 18. Addressing a joint press conference, BJP state president Ravindra Chavan said a meeting of the alliance partners was held on Tuesday evening and it was decided to release the…
BK Hariprasad succeeds DK Shivakumar, who resigned after he took over as chief minister Bengaluru: In a move aimed at separating govt functioning from party administration, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed veteran and MLC BK Hariprasad as the new president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).The high-stakes decision was finalised by Congress’…
Winning just 47 seats and getting relegated to the third place in the April assembly election, AIADMK has entered a phase of fight for survival. Edappadi K Palaniswami, 72, who managed to keep the party intact through the turmoil following J Jayalalithaa’s death in Dec 2016, now faces the challenge of keeping ‘two leaves’ alive…
Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday directed party leaders to extend all possible assistance to citizens during the upcoming special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, stressing that no genuine voter name should be deleted. Booth-level officers will begin house‑to‑house verification from June 25.Owaisi chaired a meeting with party legislators at…
Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s first administrative meeting with the MLAs of Kolkata, Howrah and South 24-Parganas saw politics take a backseat. Both Trinamool factions — the loyalists and the rebels — attended the meeting, including MLAs Firhad Hakim, Nayana Bandyopadhyay, Kunal Ghosh, Javed Khan, Ashok Deb and Arup Roy.According to Ghosh, a loyalist, CM…
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday congratulated DK Shivakumar on assuming office as the chief minister of Karnataka after he was sworn in at a ceremony held in Bengaluru.Sukhu, who also attended the ceremony, said Karnataka would witness accelerated growth and development under the leadership of Shivakumar. He said that the…
Shillong: National People’s Party (NPP)-led ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA)-2.0 on Wednesday unanimously decided to field James PK Sangma of NPP as its candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Meghalaya, with the election scheduled on June 18.A resolution on the common candidate was adopted at a meeting of parliamentary party leaders of all…
LUCKNOW: Nearly three years after a gruesome triple murder shocked Mahoba district, a fast-track court has sentenced a man to death for killing his wife and two young daughters by crushing their heads with a grinding stone.The conviction came under the Uttar Pradesh Police’s “Operation Conviction” campaign aimed at securing speedy justice in serious criminal…
NEW DELHI: Stepping up efforts to address the problem of passengers struggling to book confirmed tickets, IRCTC has deactivated more than three crore suspicious user IDs and also placed another six crore under verification of authenticity to prevent misuse.The railways’ catering and ticketing arm has also expanded its AI-based kitchen monitoring system across its network…
