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State Education Minister C Raveendranath cited increasing incidences of drowning in the state as the motive behind this policy move.

The former foreign secretary took part in the event days after taking charge of the ministry, a rare instance of a career diplomat handling the key portfolio as a minister.

NEET 2019 was cleared by a total of 7,95,031 candidates living in India and as many as 315 foreign nationals, 1,209 NRIs, 441 candidates holding OCI cards and 46 PIOs also cleared the exam.

Of the total 1,23,078 students who appeared for NEET this year from the state, 59,785 students have cleared the test.

The local Trinamool Congress leadership blamed the BJP for the murder of Nirmal Kundu in West Bengal.

State Health Minister KK Shailaja has asked the Directorate of Medical Education to look into the matter.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel, who was in charge of the civil aviation ministry between 2004 and 2011, has not been mentioned as an accused in the case.

Harshal Pradhan, a close aide of Uddhav Thackeray and media in-charge of the Shiv Sena said there will be an announcement about the visit soon.

A proposed New Education Policy (NEP) by the NDA government has brought back an age old dispute of Hindi imposition in the southern states of India. DMK has strongly opposed the proposed policy stating, it takes away the freedom from the students of South...

'May this special day ignite the spirit of harmony, compassion and peace in our society. May everyone be blessed with happiness,' Prime Minister Modi said.

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Odisha Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari said that the cities such as Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack generate a good amount of revenue on different accounts and since the calamity severely hit the normal life, the revenue collection will be automatically af...

Smriti Irani, who recently took over as the Women and Child Development Minister, had reportedly worked at a McDonald’s outlet in Mumbai during her struggling days in the 1990s.

Days after the Union government cleared the way for diversion of land inside the Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary for upgrading NH-354, the state government issued a corrigendum noting that the proposal omitted the fact that the sanctuary was the only home for b...

MSMEs that contributes 45 per cent in the country's exports, 25 per cent to the GDP and over 33 per cent to the manufacturing output, bears significant potential to affect country's economic growth, said Gadkari.

Despite hosting Trump in the dying days of her premiership after her failure to deliver Brexit on time forced her to resign, May will distance herself from the US leader on trade by championing "free, fair and open" markets.