Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet has approved a policy that candidates from reserved categories, who avail concessions in competitive examinations such as age relaxation and educational qualification, will not be eligible to claim appointment against open category posts.The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday, a statement issued…
Bengaluru: Karnataka will have SCOUT — Scholars for Outstanding Undergraduate Students — programme again.Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) signed an MoU with British Council and six Karnataka public universities to roll out SCOUT, a fully-funded, two-week residential programme hosted by a selected UK university.Around 30 outstanding undergraduate students can avail of the opportunity. In…
Chennai: DMK president M K Stalin on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to abandon plans for a NEET re-examination and allow states to fill medical seats based on Class XII marks through an emergency ordinance.In a letter to the Prime Minister, Stalin said the cancellation of NEET 2026 following the question paper leak left…
The LB Nagar court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted his 16-year-old niece to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 22,000. Hyderabad: The LB Nagar court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man who sexually assaulted his 16-year-old niece to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 22,000.The judge also…
Voting for the municipal polls was held on May 10 and counting took place on May 13 Gurgaon: It began as an election-season “promise” in Rewari. But has now acquired paperwork.Days after promising no bachelor would remain single if the BJP candidate won the local body poll, party MLA Bimla Chaudhary returned to the town…
Kolkata: From June 1, CM Suvendu Adhikari is likely to directly hear public grievances and ensure their immediate redressal through a “Janatar Darbar”, following a model practised in several BJP-governed states such as UP, MP and Odisha.The proposed public outreach initiative, aimed at addressing grievances face to face, is expected to be held once or…
Noida: On a May afternoon in Noida, the air does not just feel hot — it feels manufactured as glass towers lining the expressway catch the sun, throw it back doubled, and trap what remains inside their climate-controlled interiors, pushing the heat out onto the street below.Delhi-NCR has always had brutal summers, but something has…
Panaji: Congress candidate for the Ponda bypoll, Ketan Bhatikar, died on Friday after being bitten by a venomous snake in Karnataka. The postmortem report has confirmed that the cause of death was snakebite. Collem police have registered the case as an unnatural death.After Bhatikar was declared dead, his supporters gathered outside his residence in Ponda…
When relatives reached the bridge, they found Panchal’s motorcycle lying damaged on the bridge while he had fallen onto the road below with head and body injuries Ahmedabad: A 52-year-old senior manager fell to his death when he was thrown off Ranip’s Balolnagar bridge after his motorcycle hit a divider late on Wednesday. This marks…
Shimona.kanwar@timesofindia.comChandigarh: PGI has launched an austerity campaign to slash its carbon footprint and conserve resources during the ongoing economic crisis. As part of the effort, the institute will trade fuel-guzzling cars for bicycles and waiting rooms for digital screens.The campus-wide initiative encourages all employees — including senior doctors living within residential sectors — to cycle…
