COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19: Education min to interact with students, parents on board exams, entrance tests

11:12 pm November 27, 2020

New Delhi: Competitive and school board exams next year will only be conducted after due consultation with students, teachers and parents, Union Minister of Education Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said Friday. He said conducting examinations is not less than a challenge amid the pandemic. “Despite the uncertainty looming around due to COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial […]

Win by even one vote is ultimately a victory: Nitish

10:56 pm November 27, 2020

Patna: In a bid to blunt the RJD’s assertion that the NDA managed to win the Bihar assembly election by getting only 12,270 votes more than the Grand Alliance led by the party, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that victory by even one vote is ultimately a triumph. If anyone thinks that irregularities […]

SC extends by week order staying HC direction for undertrial prisoners to be back in jails

8:13 pm November 25, 2020

New Delhi : Undertrial prisoners, whose bail period was extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the national capital, need not return to jail forthwith as the Supreme Court Wednesday extended by a week its stay of the Delhi High Court order which had asked them to surrender to prison authorities. The apex court had […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

AAP claims North MCD bringing proposal to increase property tax, BJP refutes charges

10:48 pm November 24, 2020

New Delhi: The AAP on Tuesday claimed that the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation is bringing a proposal to increase residential property tax by 34 per cent, a charge refuted by the saffron party. Addressing a press conference, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj claimed that BJP-ruled municipal corporations are forgoing parking fee collected in its municipal […]

PM lauds UP govt for pace of development

6:48 pm November 22, 2020

Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the Uttar Pradesh government and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the pace of the development despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the stone laying of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh via video conferencing, Modi said the projects are an […]