Punjab Congress said it was holding the first Congress legislative party meeting on the evening of Thursday—the day votes for Punjab assembly elections get counted. Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu made the announcement after he met All India Congress Committee observer Ajay Maken in Chandigarh on Wednesday.“It has been decided that the First Congress […]
The last big group of about 700 Indian students evacuated from the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has boarded a special train from Poltava and are likely to board a flight to India from Poland on Thursday. The train will take the students to Lviv in western Ukraine, from where they will be taken to […]
The National Medical Commission on Wednesday said it was doing away with the upper age limit for candidates taking the medical undergraduate entrance exam—the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-UG—from 2022. In a communication to the National Testing Agency, which conducts the exam annually, Pulkesh Kumar, NMC Secretary, said, “It has been decided that there should […]
The State Election Commission (SEC) will announce the schedule for elections to three municipal corporations (272 wards) in Delhi at a press conference at 5 pm on Wednesday. The dates for nominations, their scrutiny, withdrawal of candidature, date of voting, and counting will be detailed at the conference. Over 10.4 million voters are eligible to […]
In an attempt to justify the Ukraine invasion, the staff at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant – “held hostage for four days” – has been compelled by the Russian troops to record an address, the country’s energy minister Herman Halushchenko alleged in a video address on Wednesday, calling it another fake in the Kremlin’s “propaganda […]
India’s Ravindra Jadeja climbed to the top spot in the ICC Test rankings for all-rounders on Wednesday after his match-winning performance against Sri Lanka in the opening Test in Mohali. “Ravindra Jadeja’s performance at India’s recent Test win against Sri Lanka in Mohali has catapulted him to the No 1 position in the MRF Tyres […]
A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a former Intelligence Bureau officer in Central Delhi’s Karol Bagh by luring her on the pretext of giving her a job, police said on Wednesday. The 60-year-old accused is a friend of the victim’s father, they said.According to the police, the girl has completed high school and is […]
A couple of days ahead of talks between the military commanders of India-China, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said New Delhi has made it clear to Beijing that peace and tranquility in the border areas is essential for the development of our relationship. “Development of India-China relationship has to be based on ‘three mutuals’ – […]
An air alert was sounded on Wednesday in and around Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and residents were urged to reach shelters on an urgent basis. Taking to social media platform Telegram, regional administration head Oleksiy Kuleba said there was a threat of a missile attack. “Kyiv region – air alert. Threat of a missile attack. Everyone […]
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday thanked her Indian counterpart for evacuating nine citizens of her country from war-torn Ukraine. India has rescued stranded citizens, mostly students, of several other nations, including Pakistan, Nepal and Tunisia, under its evacuation mission, titled ‘Operation Ganga’ ever since Russia invaded Ukraine two weeks ago. Earlier in the […]