NEW DELHI: The number of students scoring above 90% and 95% in the CBSE Class XII board examinations declined sharply in 2026 compared with last year, reinforcing a gradual move away from the unusually high scores recorded during the pandemic years.Data released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) shows that 94,028 students scored…
No information on his health was disclosed owing to the sensitivity of the case Mira-Bhayander: A security guard who was stabbed last month by a 31-year-old man in Mira Road, after allegedly being profiled based on his religion, was discharged from hospital on Monday after 14 days of treatment.Hospital sources said two police personnel were…
Bengaluru: Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for edible oil self-reliance and lower import dependence, Karnataka is attempting to revive sunflower cultivation as the state tries to reverse a decade-long decline in oilseed farming. Once among Karnataka’s key oilseed crops, sunflower lost ground after bud necrosis disease outbreaks wiped out yields, forcing farmers to shift…
CHENNAI: Transitioning from a party leader scrambling for the support of 10 MLAs to a chief minister winning a confidence motion by a 144-22 majority on Wednesday, C Joseph Vijay has passed the first litmus test in assembly.The result was brought about by the 59 DMK MLAs walking out of the House and 25 of…
HC flags non-compliance of pre-arrest norms, CCTV lapses in detection case A view of Telangana High court in Hyderabad on Sunday. Pic: Suman Reddy D Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court will hear on Thursday an interim anticipatory bail plea filed by Bandi Sai Bageerath, son of Union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar,…
Once implemented, buyers of houses, plots, land or shops will no longer need to visit multiple patwar offices to complete mutations, a process that has long enabled fraudulent resale of the same property Gurgaon: Haryana govt has launched an online auto-mode mutation system to curb property fraud, especially cases in which a single plot is…
Kolkata: The seven-member CBI SIT probing the murder of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant of CM Suvendu Adhikari, on May 6, near his Madhyamgram home, visited the spot for the second time on Wednesday even as central agency sleuths said the crime was an organised one involving people from multiple states. The probe team carried out…
The bike was rammed from behind by an unidentidied vehicle, police said Ghaziabad: Two persons, one of them a minor, were killed after an unidentified four-wheeler rammed into their bike from behind at Meerut Tiraha on Wednesday, police said. Their motorcycle allegedly lost balance and crashed into a divider.ACP Nandgram Ziauddin Ahmad said around 1am…
Margao: A 17-year-old student from Curtorim died by suicide at his residence on Wednesday after being distressed by the cancellation of the NEET following a paper leak controversy.The teen, a student of a higher secondary school in Margao, left behind a note stating that he no longer wished to appear for competitive examinations. His father,…
Gorakhpur: A man allegedly shot dead his sister-in-law before killing himself in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar on Wednesday morning. Police said the accused had arrived at his in-laws’ house in Tamkuhiraj area from Bihar on a motorcycle and called the girl to his room.Police said that Jitendra Prajapati (27), resident of Gopalganj district, Bihar, first shot…
