New Delhi, June 12 The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBSE to declare the results of the NEET examination for admission to MBBS and BDS courses by putting a stay on the Madras High Court order restraining publication of results. The apex court order comes as a relief forRead More

Bengaluru, June 12 The Congress will re-launch the National Herald newspaper here on Monday, which was founded by former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Vice President Hamid Ansari will launch a commemorative edition of the National Herald to mark the 70th year of Independence, in the presence of Congress vice presidentRead More

Darjeeling (WB), June 12 As many as eight suspected Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists were detained on Monday for indulging in arson as a GJM-sponsored shutdown of government offices began this morning. The hill station of Darjeeling wore a deserted look as the shutdown began amid tight security. Several hotelsRead More

New Delhi, Tax rates for 66 items, including kitchen staples like pickles, under the ensuing GST regime were today slashed to meet demands from various quarters. Within weeks of the all-powerful GST Council categorising over 1,200 items into one of the 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent tax slabs,Read More

London,  No prophet is recognised in his hometown, the saying goes. Vijay Mallya, the prophet of high life, would vouch for the accuracy of this adage. After being spotted in the earlier matches in this tournament, he’d vowed that he’d go to every India game to “support” the team. ButRead More

New Delhi, Come June 16 and petrol as well as diesel prices across the country will be revised on a daily basis in sync with international rates as happens in most advanced markets. After the successful pilot in five cities, state-owned oil companies will from June 16 revise rates onRead More

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif exchanged greetings in Kazakhstan capital Astana today. The two leaders, who travelled to Astana to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet that opened today, met in the leaders’ lounge at the Astana Opera in the eveningRead More

New Delhi, In the next three to four months, air travellers in the country will have to mandatorily provide a unique identification (UID) like an Aadhaar card, passport or PAN at the time of booking tickets. The government has constituted a technical committee that will prepare a white paper on thisRead More

Mandsaur (MP),  Anti-riot police personnel today moved into violence-hit areas of Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district, two days after the police shot dead five protesting farmers, even as Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to meet the families of the deceased raised political temperature in the state. The government, struggling to restoreRead More

Dharamsala/Lucknow, The main accused in the Saharanpur caste violence and Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar, alias Ravan, was today arrested from Dalhousie in Chamba district in a joint operation of the UP Special Task Force and the Himachal Pradesh Police. Chandrashekhar, a 30-year-old Dalit rights activist, who had been absconding sinceRead More