Indian national living illegally in US held by federal authorities for ‘assaulting man with baseball bat’ An Indian national, who entered the US illegally, has been arrested by authorities for allegedly assaulting another person with a baseball bat.Dhaval Amratbhai Patel was initially arrested by the Worcester Police Department in Massachusetts on May 16 and charged…
The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) has released the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) 2026 provisional answer key today, May 27, on its official website, wbjeeb.nic.in/wbjee. Candidates who appeared for the examination can now check and download the model answer key online.Along with the answer key, the board has also opened the…
India’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) has improved from its recent low, but not by much. The latest SRS 2024 data put it at 918 girls per 1,000 boys for 2022-24, up from the low of 896 in 2015-17, still far below the biologically expected level. WHO data reports sex ratio at birth as male…
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren The Jharkhand government has started an aggressive push to expand quality public education across the state. Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday directed officials to speed up the plan to increase the number of CM Schools of Excellence to 5,000. The move is aimed at bringing better education facilities to children…
NEW DELHI: Health authorities have stepped up airport screening, traveller monitoring and quarantine measures following suspected Ebola cases in Bengaluru and Gujarat, though no infection has been confirmed in India so far.A 28-year-old Ugandan woman who had been isolated in Bengaluru over suspected Ebola infection has tested negative, bringing relief amid heightened concern over fresh…
Indian Air Force exempts GATE-qualified engineers from AFCAT written test for Technical Branch The Indian Air Force (IAF) has introduced a new entry scheme for induction into its Technical Branch in the officer cadre through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) scores, opening an additional recruitment route for engineering graduates. Under the new scheme, candidates…
NEW DELHI: Ten days after President promulgated an ordinance to increase the Supreme Court judge strength to 38, the SC collegium led by CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday recommended the Union govt to appoint four HC chief justices – Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli – and senior advocate V Mohana as judges…
The Assam Science and Technology University is expected to release the Assam Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) on its official website, astu.ac.in. Candidates who have registered for the Assam Combined Entrance Examination will be able to download their hall tickets by logging in with their application number and password.According to the prescribed date, the admit card…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission shall, as directed by the Supreme Court, forward the list of electors deleted as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) across 13 states – primarily those classified as ‘others’, separate from the absent, shifted, dead, duplicate (ASDD) electors and, thus, of ‘suspect’ citizenship as well as the ones excluded…
In a major change to its examination process, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the Civil Services Examination (CSE) Prelims 2026 provisional answer key before the completion of the final result process for the first time.Candidates who appeared for the UPSC CSE Prelims 2026 examination can now check the answer key through the…
