As Jammu and Kashmir continue to witness a spike in terror attacks, the Centre, in an unprecedented move, has removed the chief and deputy chief of the Border Security Force(BSF).
BSF Director General…
The Delhi High Court transferred the probe over the Rajender Nagar incident to the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI). The central vigilance commissioner is instructed by the court to appoint an…
It has been more than a year since Manipur has been witnessing widespread violence and Thursday was the first time a breakthrough was reached between the two conflicting groups. Yesterday, the BJP…
The Supreme Court on Friday pronounced its judgment on the NEET reexamination case, saying that the National Testing Agency should “avoid flip flops” as it doesn’t “look good” as it rejected pleas on…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed its first chargesheet in the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case in which it has named 13 people as accused.
In a release, the CBI said that it has…
On Tuesday morning, 18 coaches of the Mumbai-Howrah Mail derailed in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district.
The incident killed two people and injured at least 20 others.
Train derailments, signal…
Delhi Police has arrested seven persons, including an SUV driver, in connection with the deaths of three students in a basement flooding at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar in the national…
In connection to the Delhi excise policy scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed its final chargesheet Monday, bringing into sharp focus the alleged involvement of Delhi Chief…
On Friday morning, a fresh wave of heavy rainfall struck Delhi and its neighboring areas, including Noida and Ghaziabad, resulting in significant waterlogging and traffic disruptions throughout the…
Indians will soon have potatoes from Bhutan on their plates. Wondering how? The government is expected to import the vegetable from Bhutan as it expects prices to increase in the coming days due to…
The death of a 26-year-old man due to electrocution in Central Delhi’s Patel Nagar has led the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue notices against the Delhi Government and police chief,…
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday adopted resolutions against the delimitation of Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies based on the coming census, ”One Nation, One Election” proposal and…
The US has asked its nationals not to travel to Manipur, Jammu and Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border, and parts of central and eastern parts of the country where Naxalites are active.
In a revised…
As India marks Income Tax Day 2024, it’s clear that the country’s tax administration has undergone a significant transformation since its humble beginnings in 1860. The evolution from a basic tax…
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has been allocated a significant budget of Rs 22,154 crore for the fiscal year 2024-25 in the Union Budget, a notable increase from last year’s outlay of Rs…
The Indian startup ecosystem has been the focus of business-related conversations all around the globe, and now it has received a significant boost as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced…
The Centre has allocated over Rs 951 crore to the country’s premier probe agency Central Bureau of Investigation in Budget 2024-25 announced on Tuesday, a slight dip of over 1.79 per cent from the…
Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an eminent Indian scientist and statistician, is often hailed as the father of the Indian Budget. Renowned for his pioneering work in statistics, Mahalanobis…
The first full budget of Modi government 3.0 is set to be presented on July 23. This will be the seventh consecutive budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The budget is essentially…
Following the Supreme Court order, The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday released city- and centre-wise results of the medical entrance exam NEET-UG which is under the scanner over alleged…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested one of the masterminds behind alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG medical entrance exam.
In the NEET-UG case, the question paper was allegedly…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested three more persons in Patna in connection with the ongoing investigation into the NEET-UG paper leak case, agency sources said on Saturday. According…
Mumbai and its suburbs received intermittent heavy spells of rain on Saturday, which led to waterlogging in some areas, but the local trains are operating normally, officials said. The India…
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that his arrest by the CBI in the alleged excise policy scam was an “insurance arrest”.
In a hearing being held by the high court…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the CBI and ED on AAP leader Manish Sisodia’s pleas seeking bail in the corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise…
Since 2019, when the first Vande Bharat train started running from Delhi to Varanasi, it has become a favourite mode of transport for passengers in India. Vande Bharat is not only faster and lighter…
The Supreme Court’s ruling on alimony to divorced Muslim women was “against the Islamic law (Shariah)”, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said. The board has also authorised its…
One Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan was killed in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Sunday morning in a gun attack by suspected militants at Mongbung village, news agency PTI reported.
In the…
In the K Armstrong murder case, K Thiruvengadam, 33, was one of 11 the accused.
In a Sunday “encounter” in Chennai, the police fatally shot a 33-year-old man who was one of the defendants in the…
A day after the central government formed a panel to probe the candidature of trainee IAS officer Pooja Khedkar, a First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against her mother, Manorama…
The BJP-led Central government on Friday declared that June 25 will be observed as the ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the 1975 Emergency as a “dark phase of Indian…
Hours after the Supreme Court granted interim bail to Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Friday extended the chief minister’s judicial custody in the corruption case registered by the CBI…
A few bones of a human purported to be of Sheena Bora, which suddenly had gone missing from CBI’s storeroom in Mumbai, have been found in the agency’s malkhana (record room) in Delhi.
The development…
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for the next 24 hours as it has been raining heavily since last night (July 7).
IMD Director at Mumbai, Sunil Kamble said, “Around…
In a rare refence to investigative agencies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that he has given free hand to the agencies to take stringent action against corruption and asserted that…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, assured that stringent action in the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak incident and said those behind it will not be “spared” by his government.
In his address in…
Amid an acerbic attack by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on the ruling BJP and PM Modi, and strong counterattack from the treasury benches, the Congress leader alleged that the National Democratic…
Members of the Opposition parties staged a protest on the Parliament premises on Monday against the central government’s “misuse” of central agencies including the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) and…
A court has sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till July 12 in the alleged excise policy case.
Kejriwal is accused of being part of the alleged Delhi Excise Policy scam and…
The CBI has filed a chargesheet against two former DGPs, Siby Mathews of Kerala and R B Sreekumar of Gujarat, and three other retired police officials in connection with the alleged framing of space…
Moments after the Central government asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit a “detailed report” on allegations that Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn has rejected married women for jobs at its facility…
The Uttar Pradesh cabinet has approved a proposal from Tata Sons to build a ‘museum of temples’ in Ayodhya at a cost of Rs 650 crore. Tata Sons is the principal investment holding company and promoter…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as a Member of Parliament for the third time as the inaugural session of the 18th Lok Sabha kicked off on Monday, June 24. Newly elected MPs who are part of…
Women government employees can take 180 days of maternity leave in case they have children through surrogacy after amendments were announced to a 50-year-old rule by the Centre.
It has also allowed…
A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the UGC-NET case was on Sunday heckled in Bihar.
The CBI is investigating the case of the leak of question paper and other irregularities…
Two commandoes of the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) CoBRA unit were killed on Sunday in a Naxalite attack in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district.
The commandoes were killed in an improvised…
Security forces have for the first time recovered a huge cache of fake currency notes belonging to Naxalites and equipment used to print them in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a senior police official…
The GST Council on Saturday decided to tweak tax rates on items, including accommodation services for students and solar cookers, and took a host of taxpayer-friendly measures including waiver of…
The Centre has handed over the probe in the NEET-UG paper-leak case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Saturday evening said that the matter was being…
Amid the paper-leak controversy, the Centre has sacked the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) chief Subodh Kumar.
In a notification on Saturday evening, the Centre announced Kumar’s dismissal and said…
In the latest case of an exam being tainted with irregularities, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday postponed the CSIR-UGC-NET exam.
The exam was scheduled to be held on June 25-27. The NTA…
In what can be described as an ironic turn of events, a NEET aspirant from Samastipur, Anurag Yadav, received the leaked question paper, memorised the answers beforehand, appeared for the exam and yet…
The CBI registered an FIR into the UGC-NET paper leak case on Thursday against unidentified persons on a reference from the Union Education Ministry, officials said. The UGC-NET 2024, exam for the…
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that the Central government will form a high-level committee to look into the functioning of the National Testing Agency (NTA) amid the…
The row over the cancellation of the UGC-NET June 2024 exam is rapidly escalating into turmoil in both political and academic fields. Following the cancellation after an alert from the Indian Cyber…
A Delhi Court on Wednesday extended Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s judicial custody till July 3.
Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court was hearing a bail plea filed by Kejriwal. During the hearing, the…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting here in the national capital to review security situations in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting started at 11 am in the presence of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inducted three ministers from Odisha, all in the Cabinet rank.
Odisha
1. Ashwini Vaishnaw
Rank: Cabinet
Portfolio:
Ashwini Vaishnaw, born on July 18, 1970, is a…
Congress Working Committee (CWC), party’s top decision-making body on Saturday passed a resolution to appoint its former chief Rahul Gandhi as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok…
PM Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony for his third term on Sunday, June 9, will feature
8,000 special guests, including Vande Bharat loco pilot Aishwarya S Menon from Chennai Railway Division and…