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Anxious about not clearing NEET, Odisha girl dies by suicide

11:53 pm September 13, 2020

Baripada: An 18-year-old medical aspirant died by suicide in Odisha‘s Mayurbhanj district, apparently because she was anxious about the result of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) held on Sunday, police said. She was found hanging in her residence here on Saturday night by her parents. When taken to a hospital, she was declared dead by […]

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

JEE-Main result declared; 24 candidates score 100 percentile

11:55 pm September 11, 2020

New Delhi: The result for JEE-Mains was announced on Friday with 24 students scoring 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam which was postponed twice in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan (4), Andhra Pradesh (3), Haryana (2 ) and one candidate each […]

Woman jumps in front of train with nine-month-old son

First Kisan Rail from South India chugs off with fruits to Delhi

3:09 pm September 9, 2020

Amaravati: Connecting the farms to the agricultural markets, the first ‘Kisan Rail’ from south India chugged off from Anantapuramu on Wednesday carrying 322 tonnes of fresh fruits to the famous Azadpur Mandi in the national Capital. Union Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy flagged off the inaugural Kisan Rail, the second in the […]

Karni Sena supports Kangana, holds protest against Sanjay Raut

9:01 pm September 8, 2020

Gorakhpur: The Karni Sena on Tuesday came out in support of Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut and staged a protest here against Shiv Sena MP and its chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut, amid the ongoing war of words between the two. They also burnt his effigy during the protest at Shastri Chowk in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur city and demanded an apology from him, […]

India’s COVID-19 infection tally crosses 42 lakh

4:33 pm September 7, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases went past 42 lakh with a record 90,802 people being infected in a day, while 32,50,429 people have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 77.30 per cent on Monday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total number of coronavirus cases mounted to 42,04,613, […]