The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that a 12-member committee led by the Director General of Health Services will review the NEET-PG admission process and recommend reforms. Hearing petitions against the reduced qualifying percentile, the court has granted the panel eight weeks to submit its report before taking up the issue for detailed consideration….
Gorakhpur: Around 300 student and teacher activists from all 17 organisational districts of the Goraksh Province participated in the four-day provincial training camp of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), which concluded at Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy in Basti.Held from June 25 to 28, the camp focused on leadership development, organisational skills, ideological orientation…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal fire department has ordered the evacuation of the basement, sixth and seventh floors of a high-rise building in central Kolkata that houses TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s office, citing a “lack of fire safety measures”, an official said on Friday.The order came a day after Banerjee’s Camac Street office was ransacked,…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has removed the mandatory requirement of 90% property tax payment by all households for residents welfare associations (RWAs) to achieve zero waste tag and earn incentives. Under Zero Waste Colony Scheme, which was earlier known as Sahbhagita Scheme, the civic body has also increased the maximum incentive for…
Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University has called upon all undergraduate and postgraduate students to actively participate in the online feedback process for the current semester. The university’s teaching department, office of the registrar made an appeal to the students to submit their subject-wise feedback via the Namaste BHU platform by or before June 14. Students can…
Mumbai: Drug-resistant bacterial infections are associated with significantly higher mortality and treatment costs than infections caused by drug-sensitive strains, a new Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study involving 20 tertiary-care hospitals has found.Published in The Lancet Regional Health–Southeast Asia, the study analysed 1.6 lakh hospitalised patients between April 2022 and April 2025, including patients…
East Zone’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays a shot on day three of the Duleep Trophy Semi-final 1 cricket match between Central Zone and East Zone, at BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) grounds, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (PTI Photo) BENGALURU: On a day when 13 wickets fell, East Zone had the final say in the Duleep Trophy semifinal…
New Delhi: A TV mechanic from Delhi and a Bhopal-based accountant have been arrested by Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police in connection with a Rs 128-crore fake GST invoicing racket that allegedly operated through bogus firms created using stolen identity documents.With the latest arrests, the total number of accused held in the case…
Hyderabad: Hostel-born startup Apollyon Dynamics has successfully launched its jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — ADX-1 — from the roof of a moving car and is now developing indigenous technology to reduce India’s dependence on imported target drones used for military training.The founders — two 21-year-old fourth year B Tech students from Hyderabad — said…
A simple question from billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has reignited debate about one of the most confusing aspects of the US healthcare system. In a discussion on X, Cuban challenged the logic behind insurers paying around $2,500 for an MRI scan when an independent imaging centre nearby might offer the same service for…
