IAS officer Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi appointed CBSE chairman
New Delhi: Rakesh Kumar Chaturvedi was on Thursday appointed chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), ...
Junk food banned in Punjab schools, committees formed for monitoring
Punjab Child Rights Commission has banned serving junk food in the state’s schools and formed committees to monitor the ...
No stay on ordinance allowing states to conduct MBBS tests
New Delhi : Supreme Court said the validity of the Centre’s ordinance allowing states to conduct separate entrance ...
Sheila Dikshit is Congress’ Chief Minister candidate for UP polls 2017
Sheila Dikshit was named by Congress on Thursday as its chief ministerial candidate for next year’s Assembly polls in ...
Notorious Italian mafia boss Bernardo ‘The Tractor’ Provenzano dies at Milan hospital
Provenzano, 83, was the Cosa Nostra crime groups “boss of bosses” until his arrest in 2006 after 40 years on ...
US may propose plan for cooperation with Russia for anti-terror drive in Syria
The United States is to offer to cooperate with Russia in joint military action against the Al-Nusra Front and Islamic ...
Govt extends pay date under black money scheme
New Delhi : The government today extended the deadline for payment of tax and penalty under the black money disclosure scheme ...
VK Singh to lead operation for evacuating 300 Indians in South Sudan
India announced on Wednesday that it will send two C-17 military transport aircraft to South Sudan’s capital Juba on ...
Godhra train carnage : 14 years later, key accused held from Malegaon
Over 14 years after a frenzied mob torched a coach of Sabarmati Express train at Godhra station, the city Crime Branch ...
Talgo train clocked a maximum speed of 180 km per hour
The high-speed Spanish Talgo train clocked a maximum speed of 180 km per hour during its second phase trial run between ...