NEW DELHI, JUN 13 : The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to cancel the scorecards of 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates who were given grace marks. The 1,563 students, who were given grace makes, will be given option to take re-test on June 23. These students will be informed of their […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 13 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to leave for Italy on Thursday to participate in the 50th G7 leaders’ summit. This marks his first international trip since assuming office for the third term. Italy extended an invitation to India to attend the G7 Summit as an Outreach Country, scheduled for […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 12: The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin on June 24 for oath or affirmation of the newly elected members, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday. The first three days of the session will see the newly elected leaders taking oath or making affirmation of their membership […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 12: Two days after terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi, the police on Tuesday released a sketch of one of the three terrorists involved in the attack. The police also announced a Rs 20 lakh reward for information about him. Sketch of terrorist involved with […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the term ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ could be dropped from a suffix of the social media accounts of his supporters. In a post on the microblogging site X, PM Modi said, “Through the election campaign, people across India added ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ to […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Seventy out of 71 or 99 per cent of the ministers in the new council of ministers are crorepatis with average assets among them amounting to Rs 107.94 crores, according to poll rights body ADR. Among the ministers, six stand out for their particularly high asset declarations, each exceeding Rs 100 […]Continue Reading
Modi cabinet 3.0: Jaishankar back as external affairs minister; Vaishnaw takes charge as IB Minister
NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Diplomat-turned-politician S Jaishankar on Tuesday assumed charge as external affairs minister for the second consecutive term. Jaishankar, 69, was among the senior BJP leaders, including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman, who retained the ministries that they handled in the previous government. “Assumed charge as the Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a ‘kisan sammelan’ (farmers’ conference) in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on June 18, sources said. This could be the Prime Minister’s first visit to Varanasi after he took oath for a record third time on Sunday. Local BJP leaders […]Continue Reading
New Delhi,Jun 10: There was a time when ‘Minimum government, maximum governance’ was one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favourite slogans. But in this third term, with the compulsions of coalition politics and also a need to strengthen representation from BJP’s core states taking over, that has been set aside. The swearing-in on Sunday inducted Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 10: The Election Commission on Monday announced bypolls to 13 assembly constituencies across seven states, including four in West Bengal, on July 10.The bypolls are to be held against vacancies created either due to deaths or resignation of incumbent members. The assembly seats going for bypolls are Rupauli (Bihar), Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda […]Continue Reading
