New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) The UGC-National Eligibility Test (NET) scheduled for January 15 has been postponed on account of festivals, including Makar Sakranti and Pongal, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Monday. The exam for admission to PhD programmes, awarding Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and appointment as assistant professors is being conducted from January 3 to January 16 for 85 subjects in the Computer Based Test (CBT) mode....Read More
New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): Congress candidate from the New Delhi assembly constituency, Sandeep Dikshit, on Monday took a dig at Delhi Chief Minister Atishi for her 'crowdfunding campaign' to contest the election, saying that the ruling AAP is spending much more than the expenditure limit. He alleged that AAP is spending Rs 500 to 700 on each volunteer. He stated that the party had appointed around 11 to 12 volunteers in each booth. "...Their (AAP) paid volunteers are on the ground w...Read More
Patna (Bihar) [India], January 13 (ANI): In a significant development, the Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan met with a delegation of BPSC aspirants and heard their grievances assuring them of issuing necessary instructions to relevant authorities. The governor also appealed to Jan Suraj Party founder Prashant Kishor, who has been fasting in support of the aspirants, which has entered its twelfth day, to end his fast-unto-death, citing health concerns. Jan Suraaj Party's working president, Man...Read More
Delhi Election 2025: Making his debut in the Delhi poll campaign, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched an all-out attack against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the central government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said that Congress stands for equitable development while the BJP and AAP have been fooling people. Rahul Gandhi urged voters to make Congress victorious saying that the party will ensure development as it did in the past. "Neither...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Monday said that AAP National Convenor and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has completely lost his political ground in Delhi. Out of desperation and on seeing his imminent defeat, anarchist Kejriwal has now started maligning the Election Commission and the election process, he said, referring to an attempt by the AAP to create a controversy over its Patparganj candidate Avadh Ojha's vote from Greater Noida to Delh...Read More
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday postponed the UGC-NET December 2024 Exam scheduled on 15th January 2025. The decision was made after the NTA received multiple representations requesting the postponement due to Pongal , Makar Sankranti , and other festivals on the same date. The NTA announced that the new exam date will be announced later. Meanwhile, the examination scheduled for January 16, 2025, remained unchanged and would be conducted as planned. The UGC-NET exam, co...Read More
New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): As many as 21 trains are running late on Monday due to low visibility caused by fog. For the past several days, rail operations have been hit by inclement weather conditions, primarily dense fog. Rajdhani Bhubaneswar, Rajdhani Howrah, Tejas Lucknow, Rajdhani Dibrugarh and Magadh Express are among the trains running late. Several trains were delayed due to foggy weather conditions today, while some trains have also been cancelled. The Purushottam Express ex...Read More
PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) -- Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival, which is being touted as the world's largest religious gathering. Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers -- the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati -- where they will take part in elaborate rituals, hoping to begin a journey to achie...Read More
New Delhi, January 13 (VOICE) Acting swiftly on the recommendation made by the Supreme Court Collegium, the Centre on Monday cleared the appointment of Patna High Court's Chief Justice Krishnan Vinod Chandran to the apex court. In a post on X, Union Minister for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal announced that the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India (CJI), was pleased to appoint Justice Chandran as a Supreme Court judge. "In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (...Read More
CHENNAI: National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday postponed the UGC-NET December 2024 Exam scheduled on 15th January 2025 after receiving representations to postpone the UGC NET December 2024 examination on account of Pongal, Makar Sankranti and other festivals on 15th January 2025. The New date of exam will announce later, as per reports. Examination scheduled on 16th January 2025 will be conducted as per earlier schedule. Earlier, Chief Minister Stalin has urged Union Education Minister Dhar...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) The Supreme Court would hear a matter related to the health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast pressing for demands, and other pleas on January 15. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh would hear a plea filed on behalf of Dallewal for a direction to the Central government for implementing a proposal, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops, made to the protesting farmers in 2021 after the farm laws were repealed. The ...Read More
New Delhi: Millions of youths in the country dream of cracking the UPSC exam and becoming an IAS or IPS officer. Today we will tell you about an IAS who has cracked Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) twice. That person is IAS Divya Mittal, who hails from Haryana. At present, Divya Mittal is the District Magistrate of Deoria Uttar Pradesh. Talking about her education, she has a B Tech degree from IIT. After this, she completed MBA from IIM Bangalore. After passing out from IIM, she worked a...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Patna High Court Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran was on Monday elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Collegium recommended Justice Chandran's name on January 7, and his appointment was announced on Monday by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal in a post on X. Justice Chandran was appointed as a judge of the Kerala High Court on November 8, 2011. He was elevated as the chief justice Patna High Court on March 29, 2023. Once he takes oath as a judge of the...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today welcomed the newly signed Haj agreement with Saudi Arabia, which establishes a quota of 175,025 pilgrims from India for Haj 2025. The agreement was finalised by Minister of Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju during discussions with H E Tawfiq Bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, the Saudi Minister for Hajj and Umrah, in Jeddah. In a post on X, Rijiju said: "Haj Agreement 2025 signed with Tawfiq Bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, Minister for Hajj and Umrah of Kingdom of Sa...Read More
New Delhi: Kapil Mishra, a former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, has been announced as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate for the Karawal Nagar constituency in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. The sitting MLA Mohan Singh Bisht has been shifted to contest from Mustafabad. Voting is set for February 5, with results to be declared on February 8. Born on November 13, 1980, in Delhi, Kapil Mishra is the son of Annapurna Mishra, a former East Delhi mayor, and Rameshwar Mishra, a socia...Read More
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], January 13 (ANI): Reacting to Congress and Aam Aadmi Party contesting against each other in Delhi assembly elections, Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Monday said that his party is providing an alternative to the people of the national capital, which he said has been restricted to allegations and counter-allegations between the BJP and ruling AAP. He further stated that the INDIA bloc is "strong" but the parties take their own stands in different state elections, addi...Read More
New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that people misunderstand the meaning of, "minimum government, maximum governance". He said that the efforts must be to increase the speed of work done by government departments and thus, he had made different ministries for skill, cooperatives, and fisheries. Speaking in a podcast with Zerodha Co-founder Nikhil Kamath, PM Modi said that the government took away 40,000 compliances to increase the speed of work in different d...Read More
New Delhi, January 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked his podcast debut on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath's series, People By WTF. In the two-hour-long episode, PM Modi discussed diverse topics, including his childhood, India's technological advancements, and the parallels between politics and entrepreneurship. "This is my first podcast. This world is completely new to me," PM Modi began with a smile, setting a candid tone. Kamath, admitting his non-native fluency in Hindi, was reassured...Read More
Mumbai, Jan 10 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said it was the responsibility of the Congress to keep the INDIA bloc intact as it was the largest party in the opposition alliance. Raut's statement came in the backdrop of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's remarks expressing dismay over the lack of clarity on INDIA bloc leadership and agenda, and saying the alliance should be wound up if it was meant only for the 2024 parliamentary elections. "If the alliance pa...Read More
Guwahati, Jan 10 (PTI) The 'sardar' of workers of the coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district, where eight miners remained trapped, was arrested, even as a dewatering exercise continued in the quarry to facilitate the resumption of rescue operations, police said on Friday. The fate of the trapped miners appeared to be grim with personnel involved in the rescue operations racing against time to bring them out of the ill-fated quarry, while the body of one labourer, hailing from Nepal, has been ...Read More
Chandigarh, Jan 10 (PTI) Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal targeted the BJP for seeking the Akal Takht's intervention for ending his fast-unto-death, and said they should instead approach Prime Minister Narendra Modi and press him to accept farmers' demands if they want him to call off the strike, which entered day 46 on Friday. In a three-minute video message released on Friday, the 70-year-old farmer leader asserted he will end his fast only after the Centre accepts farmers' demands ...Read More
New Delhi: The BJP is likely to announce the remaining candidates on 41 seats in Delhi Assembly polls by Sunday, said party's state general secretary Vishnu Mittal. Talking to the reporters at the Delhi BJP office, Mittal said that the second list of candidates will be released either on Jan 11 or 12 after the Central Election Committee (CEC) meets today. Earlier today, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah met party president JP Nadda's residence for Delhi BJP core group meeting. The ...Read More
LUCKNOW: On his second day in Prayagraj to review final preparations for the Mahakumbh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched Prasar Bharti's special FM channel, called Kumbhvani. The CM said that the radio channel would take the Mahakumbh to all those who were unable to visit the Kumbh this time, especially in rural areas, and help spread the message of Sanatan Dharma among people. Confident that the channel would be a huge success as it would extend the spirit of Mahakumbh to remote areas, ...Read More
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Atishi launched a sharp attack on the BJP on Friday, demanding that the saffron party announce its chief ministerial candidate ahead of the upcoming Delhi assembly elections. Referring to the BJP as the "Gali-Galoch Party," Atishi pointed out that it was widely known that Arvind Kejriwal would become chief minister if the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) retained power in Delhi. However, she claimed, the same clarity was missing in the BJP. Waving a poster, Atishi claimed that t...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 10 (VOICE) Amid the ongoing war of words, Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Saurabh Bhardwaj on Friday rebutted the BJP's allegations that former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had insulted "Purvanchalis" (people from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) and instead, accused the BJP of long being "anti-Purvanchal". Speaking to VOICE, Bhardwaj criticised BJP President J.P. Nadda for previously referring to Purvanchalis as "Rohingyas, Bangladeshis, and infiltrators" in Pa...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Friday has issued gazette notification for the assembly elections in the national capital, following recommendations from the Election Commission of India. According to the official notification dated January 10, the election schedule has been announced in accordance with the Representation of the People Act, 1951. "As recommended by the Election Commission of India, the Lieutenant Governor of the National Capital Territory (NCT) ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jan 10 (PTI) Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday said that six surrendered Maoists have not handed over their weapons, and the police are working to locate and recover them from the forest where they are believed to have been disposed of. Noting that one Maoist, expelled from the surrendered group, is still at large and efforts are underway to trace him, he said there is no one else involved in Naxal activities in the state. He added that any individuals coming from othe...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Atishi citing "credible" sources claimed on Friday that the BJP has decided to project its leader Ramesh Bidhuri as the party's chief ministerial candidate for the assembly polls. The chief minister said this was Bidhuri's "reward" for being the "most abusive" leader of his party. Atishi is seeking re-election from the Kalkaji seat in the Delhi Assembly polls and is pitted against BJP's Bidhuri and Congress's Alka Lamba. "It has been learnt from cr...Read More
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Atishi took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over no CM face for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. While lashing out, she added that BJP has decided to make Ramesh Bidhuri its CM face for the national capital, "who hurls the most abuses." Atishi's remarks come on the heels of a BJP core committee meeting, with the party expected to finalise its strategy later today. Addressing the media, Atishi said, "Today, the entire Delhi is aski...Read More
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin introduced two amendment bills in the state assembly on Friday, aimed at imposing harsher punishments for crimes against women. The first bill seeks to amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, 1998, while the second proposes changes to the applicability of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitawithin the state. Government's Commitment to Women's Welfare Presenting the bills, Stalin emphasized his govern...Read More