NTA told a parliamentary committee on Thursday that it was looking at phasing out reliance on test-delivery agencies by developing in-house capabilities – covering both software and hardware – to tighten the circle with access to the question-setting process, minimising possibility of malpractices. Higher education secretary Vineet Joshi and NTA director general Abhishek Singh briefed…
NEW DELHI: The much-delayed 4th India-Africa summit that India was to host from May 28 to 31 was postponed on Thursday on account of the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Though not yet a global pandemic, the risk posed by the virus made WHO declare a health emergency of international…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The V D Satheesan-led UDF govt has decided to scrap the Kerala Land Assignment (Amendment) Act, 2023, and the 2025 Rules, and to create an independent state vigilance commission headed by a sitting high court judge.Two of the boldest measures contained in the govt’s ‘Vision 2031’ policy document indicate a sweeping political and…
A record 274 people reached Mt Everest’s summit from Nepal side on Wednesday after a delayed spring season forced expeditions to fit their final attempts into a narrow spell of clear weather, making it the busiest single-day ever on the mountain’s southern route and putting fresh focus on crowding above 8,000 metres, where even brief…
CHENNAI: Congress made a comeback into govt in Tamil Nadu ending its 59-year exile, with two of its legislators among 23 new ministers sworn in, as CM C Joseph Vijay Thursday expanded his cabinet in an exercise that rewarded loyalists, accommodated allies and signalled attempt at rewriting social engineering in state politics. With 21 TVK…
US is exploring the possibility of India procuring crude from Venezuela. ‘We want to sell them as much energy as they will buy,’ Rubio said NEW DELHI: Ahead of his visit to India, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said Thursday that the US wants to sell India as much energy as possible and that…
Officials said there were instances where land sold to developers was used to show capital gains as agricultural income. In some cases, authorities used satellite maps to detect misuse of the tax provision NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has come across many cases where individuals have claimed income tax exemption on…
NAGPUR: Bombay HC’s Nagpur bench recently ruled that asking a working wife to contribute her salary towards household expenses “cannot, in itself, be construed as an unlawful demand or cruelty.“Justice Vrushali Joshi quashed an FIR and chargesheet registered against a Nagpur-based man and his parents at Mankapur PS under IPC Sections 498-A (cruelty by husband…
NEW DELHI: Dismissing reports of any shortage, govt on Thursday asserted that there was no rationing of petrol and diesel anywhere in the country and attributed long queues at fuel pumps in some parts to bulk diesel consumers, such as industries, shifting to retail outlets due to a price gap of nearly Rs 42 a…
SRINAGAR: Climate activist and Leh Apex Body (LAB) member Sonam Wangchuk will take part Friday in talks with the Centre on Ladakh, doing so as part of a delegation for the first time since such parleys began in 2023 on the political future of the Union territory (UT).LAB, an umbrella group of the region’s political…
