To fill up vacant postgraduate medical seats, the Union Health Ministry has directed the National Board of Examinations to reduce the cut-off by 15 percentile across all categories for NEET-PG 2021. In a letter to NBE Executive Director Minu Bajpai, Member Secretary of the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) B Srinivas said, “After due discussion and […]
A day after former former deputy CM Sukhjinder Randhawa targeted Congress leader Sunil Jakhar for being among those who ruined the party’s chances of returning to power, the latter on Saturday shared an old video in which Randhawa is heard praising Jakhar for making him a minister in the Congress government in 2018. After Congress […]
Pakistan on Saturday demanded a joint probe into a missile India said it accidentally fired into its territory, rejecting New Delhi’s decision to hold an internal inquiry into the incident and calling on the international community to play a role. “Such a serious matter cannot be addressed with the simplistic explanation proffered by the Indian […]
Military Commanders of India and China, who met last night failed to resolve the pending issues at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The two sides are locked in a military stand-off since April 2020 with more than thousands of troops, guns, tanks and missile forces on either side of the LAC. […]
An Alliance Air flight from Delhi carrying 55 passengers overshot the runway while landing at the Jabalpur airport on Saturday afternoon, officials of aviation regulator DGCA said. None of the passengers or crew members was injured, they said, adding that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has started an investigation.The Delhi-Jabalpur flight was operated […]
In a joint operation, authorities in Karnataka and Maharashtra managed to reunite a speech impaired boy with his mother after six years with the help of fingerprints on an Aadhaar card. The boy, B. Bharath Kumar, had gone missing in 2016 from a market when his mother, Parvathamma, was selling vegetables.Parvathamma had lodged a complaint […]
A Venu Prasad has been appointed Principal Secretary to the CM.He is a 1991 batch IAS officer.He has remained the CMD of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for long, and was currently posted as ACS, Excise and Taxation.This has set in motion the administrative changes to be effected by the new AAP government.
In the wake of the Samajwadi Party’s defeat in Uttar Pradesh, party chief Akhilesh Yadav is likely to quit the Karhal seat, which he won during his maiden ASSEMBLY elections, and remain as A Member of Lok Sabha from Azamgarh. “Now that we have not won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and are not forming […]
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Saturday fixed 8.1 per cent as rate of interest on EPF deposits for the year 2021-22. In the previous year (2020-21), the fund manager kept the interest rate on savings steady at 8.5% but Saturday’s downward revision is lowest in years. The decision to lower the interest rate, […]