The Centre appointed Naresh Pal Gangwar (L) as the new higher education secretary, replacing Vineet Joshi (R). NEW DELHI: As protests against the NEET paper ‘leak’ flared up, the Centre on Thursday shifted higher education secretary Vineet Joshi to the ministry of panchayati raj and appointed new officials to top positions in both the school…
CHENNAI: Amid the ongoing nationwide anti-NEET protests, more than 50 people were detained on Friday after staging a road blockade during a protest in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi.Earlier in the day, students affiliated with the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) held a sit-in protest inside the Chennai’s Presidency College campus. The protesters raised slogans against the…
NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar told TOI that the commission has written to Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and governor Jishnu Dev Varma recommending that parole should not be granted to convicts in heinous sexual offences. PUNE: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has urged the state government to deny parole to convicts involved in heinous crimes…
Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor is one of the landmark achievements of the UP government (Photo: ANI) When Yogi Adityanath assumed office as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in March 2017, he inherited a state that, despite its enormous demographic and economic potential, faced persistent challenges of poor infrastructure, weak industrialisation, concerns over law…
NEW DELHI: Congress veteran Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday joined the protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar over the alleged NEET paper leak and welcomed the dialogue between the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and the Union government, expressing hope that the talks would lead to a positive outcome.Calling the agitation a significant moment, Aiyar said, “This…
Photo credit: Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam Ireland has now recovered the remains of 99 infants and children from the site of the former Tuam mother and baby home in County Galway, a place that has become a symbol of one of the darkest chapters in the country’s institutional history. The new…
Late legendary filmmaker Bharathiraja’s long-cherished dream project, the screen adaptation of Vela Ramamoorthy’s acclaimed novel ‘Kuttra Parambarai’, is finally being revived on a grand scale. Previously stalled due to prolonged rights controversies and copyright debates, the story is now being reimagined as a Rs 50-crore web series directed by Sasikumar. Featuring a screenplay penned by…
Railway Group D 2025 exam city intimation slip out; check CBT details and important instructions The Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) have released the RRB Group D 2025 exam city intimation slip for candidates appearing in the Computer-Based Test (CBT). Applicants can now download their exam city details by visiting the official website of their respective…
India’s Tulika Maan (PTI photo) New Delhi: India’s Commonwealth Games campaign has suffered another major blow with Olympian and 2022 Birmingham CWG’s silver medallist Tulika Maan being provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for alleged whereabouts failures, ending her Glasgow 2026 participation even without flying out of India.Sources told TOI that Tulika, one…
Mercury will turn Direct in Gemini on July 24, 2026, triggering a major transformation in the areas of communication, trade, learning, business, writing, travel and decision-making. Mercury is the planet of communication, of speaking, of logic, of planning, of calculation, of quickness of thought and of intelligence.If the last few days have been mentally disorganised,…
