NEW DELHI: Two pilots were killed after sustaining fatal injuries following the crash of an IAF Su-30MKI jet in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district during a training mission. “IAF acknowledges the loss of Sqn Ldr Anuj and Flt Lt Purvesh Duragkar, who sustained fatal injuries in the Su-30 crash. All personnel of the IAF express sincere…
The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has issued a corrigendum for the Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGL) 2025, revising the list of permissible benchmark disabilities for several posts. The correction relates to Annexure-V of the original CGL 2025 notification, which was published earlier on June 9, 2025. The commission released the corrigendum on March 5, 2026…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of start of Census 2027 on April 1, home minister Amit Shah on Thursday launched four digital tools for the country’s first ever digital Census and unveiled the two Census mascots — ‘Pragati’, a female enumerator and ‘Vikas’, her male counterpart. The four digital platforms include a self-enumeration portal that will allow…
Maths exam can make the toppers fret and sweat. This we know is an established truth. It is almost again that time of the year again for Class 12th students. The Class 12th exam is scheduled to be held on March 9, 2026. A familiar scene can be imagined here: Class 12 students sit with…
Scheduled Tribe members adhering to Hindu customs are not barred from the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Chhattisgarh High Court ruled. The court set aside a family court’s rejection of a mutual divorce petition, stating that those who voluntarily follow Hindu rites cannot be excluded. RAIPUR: Members of the scheduled tribe (ST) community who follow Hindu…
Budget pressure inside Harvard University’s largest academic unit is beginning to reshape how courses may be taught in the coming years. As the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) confronts a $365 million deficit, administrators are preparing to cut spending on non-tenure-track faculty by 25% across its academic divisions. The reductions are expected to…
PUNE: India’s summer heatwaves – the humid, suffocating kind that impact more than dry heat – are not just getting more frequent, but also more intense through a now-identified specific atmospheric chain reaction. A Jan 2026 study by scientists from IMD and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, published in the Journal of the…
CUET PG exam day guidelines The postgraduate admission season for central and participating universities is set to begin as the Common University Entrance Test for Postgraduate courses (CUET PG) 2026 starts on Thursday, March 6, 2026. Conducted by the National Testing Agency, the nationwide examination will run until March 27 in computer-based mode at designated…
File photo: Nishant Kumar NEW DELHI: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is a rare regional heavyweight who has been vocal in his disdain of dynastic politics and made it a point to keep his family members, including his only son Nishant, out of any limelight. As politics would have it, Nishant is now being seen by…
HPBSE uploads SMC-LDR Test-2026 answer keys, objections accepted until March 7 SMC-LDR Test-2026 answer keys: The Himachal Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (HPBSE) has released the provisional answer keys for the SMC-LDR Test-2026 on its official website. Candidates who appeared for the examinations can now verify their responses and submit objections if discrepancies are found.Dr….
