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With the US and Iran set to sign an interim peace agreement on Friday, PM Narendra Modi told President Donald Trump he was confident that the issue of seafarers will receive the “highest priority” during the implementation of this agreement, while appreciating the president’s “tremendous efforts” in reaching the deal. The leaders spoke to the…

The Supreme Court has postponed the hearing on a petition against the NTA’s decision to cancel NEET-UG 2026 and hold a fresh examination for nearly 22 lakh aspirants. The plea claims the nationwide re-test unfairly affects honest candidates and questions whether alleged irregularities at specific centres justify cancelling the entire examination. The Supreme Court deferred…

NEW DELHI: Even as suits concerning Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi have seen over a dozen judges recuse themselves, a similar case has been pending in Punjab and Haryana HC since 2022. The case related to the dismissal of judicial officer Amrish Kumar Jain has witnessed the recusal of four HC judges, including then…

The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha has released the Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) 2026 admit card on its official website, bseodisha.nic.in. Candidates who have registered for the examination can now download their hall tickets online by logging in with the required credentials.Candidates are advised to download and print their admit cards as soon…

JAMMU: J&K Police Wednesday claimed to have busted a major narco-terror nexus with links extending to Punjab and across the border, and arrested 20, including three alleged kingpins. The drug supply chain had been feeding narcotics into the Union Territory, SSP Jammu Joginder Singh said.Surajdeep Singh, Harpreet Singh alias Raju, and Jaspreet, who were arrested…

The Child Welfare Committee in Kerala has started a campaign against the use of cosmetics among schoolchildren. The campaign was launched in Kollam after concerns were raised over increasing use of makeup products in schools.The campaign was inaugurated at Mayyanad Higher Secondary School in Kollam, where teachers said they have noticed students bringing cosmetics to…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has raised the ceiling prices of BCG, Measles and Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccines by about 21% after reconsidering an earlier pricing order following a review application by Serum Institute of India.In a gazette notification, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) increased the ceiling price of BCG vaccine from ₹8.20 to ₹9.89 per…

India makes more medicine than almost any country on earth. It is the third largest pharmaceutical producer in the world by volume and the single biggest supplier of generic medicines, accounting for roughly a fifth of global supply. [1] The domestic market alone, worth around 60 billion dollars today, is expected to more than double…

NEW DELHI: India has succeeded in bringing 21.7 million hectares of degraded land under restoration against its target of restoring 26 million hectares by 2030 as per its voluntary global commitment, shows the country’s second progress report on the Bonn Challenge released on the world day to combat desertification and drought on Wednesday.Among states, Telangana…

PRAYAGRAJ: In a major administrative action, UP Board has automatically withdrawn the recognition of 465 self-financed schools across the state after finding that they neither sent any students to Board examinations nor conducted classes for two consecutive academic sessions, 2024-25 and 2025-26.The highest number of derecognised institutions belongs to the Prayagraj region, with 150 schools,…