Ranchi: Normal life was affected in parts of Jharkhand on Tuesday as BJP workers enforced a state-wide bandh in protest against police action on job aspirants during their march to the state assembly a day ago over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations. Most schools and business establishments remained closed, while vehicular movement was very low…
New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court gave former prime minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit in the coal block allocation case, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said his record of integrity and accountability stood in stark contrast to the way the Narendra Modi government has operated. She said history would indeed remember Singh…
Ranchi: Police will analyse CCTV footage to identify miscreants who disrupted “peaceful” students’ protests here on Monday over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations, officials said. A senior police officer also said 14 personnel were injured during the protesting job aspirants’ march to the assembly during the day. The agitation entered the 17th day on…
Dehradun: The Kanwar Yatra witnessed a record turnout this year, with around 4.43 crore devotees returning home with Ganga water from Haridwar by Monday evening, police said. Around 63.60 lakh pilgrims reached Haridwar on Monday alone and collected Ganga water, police officials said. The Kanwar Yatra began on July 30, coinciding with the beginning of…
Lucknow: Temples across Uttar Pradesh reverberated with chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bam Bam Bhole’ as large numbers of devotees and kanwariyas thronged Shiva shrines on the second Monday of the holy month of Sawan, officials said. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed Rudrabhishek and a ‘havan’ at the Gorakhnath temple on Monday afternoon to…
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday said it will publish the provisional answer key for the UGC-NET June 2026 examination on its official website this week. The NTA will also release answer keys for CSIR-NET and ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE (PhD) 2026 examinations. “The provisional answer keys for the UGC-NET June…
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday said the opposition’s demand for statements by Home Minister Amit Shah on alleged police brutalities against students and by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Ram temple donation “theft” on the floor of the House cannot be delinked in a last-ditch effort by the government to break opposition unity….
Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate has launched a money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the conduct of multiple recruitment examinations in Jharkhand particularly the JSSC-CGL examination, officials said on Monday. They said the central agency took cognisance of a state police CID FIR and some other complaints and chargesheets to initiate a probe under the…
Ranchi: Police used water cannons, lobbed tear gas shells, and lathi-charged job aspirants as they breached barricades and attempted to reach the state assembly, protesting the alleged recruitment exam irregularities. Several protesters claimed they were injured in the police action, which took place when they reached the final barricade near Jagannathpur Temple on the road…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday met the family of a TMC worker who allegedly died in police custody in the North 24 Parganas district and said a magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the incident. He also announced a Rs 10 lakh aid from the CM Relief fund to the bereaved…
