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Jammu: A day after a Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead, violent protests erupted in Jammu & Kashmir’s Budgam district on Friday, forcing police to resort to lathicharge and use tear gas shells. Government employees and families of Kashmiri…

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Nidhi Chibber has been appointed chairperson of Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Friday. The 1994 batch IAS officer of…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2022. The exam is scheduled to be held on May 21. The plea was filed by a group of doctors. The SC…

Bhubaneswar: One of the two pilots killed in the helicopter crash at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur on Thursday night was from Odisha. He was identified as Captain Gopal Krishna Panda. The other pilot killed was Captain A P…

New Delhi: India’s retail inflation has jumped to an eight-year high of 7.79% in April 2022, government data has revealed. Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tolerable limit of 6% has thus been breached for the fourth straight month. Last…

New Delhi: Taking into consideration the heat wave conditions prevailing in several parts of the country, the Union Ministry of Education has issued fresh advisory for schools across the country. The government has suggested early morning…

New Delhi: All adults are eligible to take the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose after a gap of nine months. Now, the rule for the third dose has been relaxed. Citizens travelling abroad can now get the precaution shot before the stipulated…

New Delhi: Campbell Wilson has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of Air India, Tata Sons said in an official statement said Thursday. He is the chief executive of Scoot, the wholly-owned…

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department has, On Thursday, predicted that India will witness normal rainfall during the southwest monsoon season from June 5 to September 30 in 2022. The southwest monsoon is likely to advance into…

Bhubaneswar: The depression, remnant of cyclonic storm Asani, over coastal Andhra Pradesh weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area over the same region at 8.30 on Thursday. It is likely to weaken further into a low-pressure area during…