NEW DELHI: The repeated lowering of NEET-PG cut-offs has reignited concerns over the quality of postgraduate medical training, with critics warning that successive relaxations risk diluting standards at a time when patient care is already under strain.Health ministry officials acknowledge these concerns but argue that the policy reflects a difficult trade-off between preserving academic standards,…
JKBOSE Class 12th result: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has declared the Class 12 annual examination results for the October–November 2025 session. On the login page for results, you will have to enter your roll number and other required details to view your result/scorecard. Students can now check their performance. The…
NEW DELHI: Senior Indian Police Service officer Rakesh Aggarwal was on Wednesday appointed as the director general of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Aggarwal, a 1994-batch IPS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, is currently serving as Special Director General in the anti-terror agency. He had also been holding the additional charge of the DG, NIA,…
Nearly all political donations made by Yale professors in 2025 went to Democratic candidates and groups, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance data by the Yale Daily News.The newspaper reviewed more than 7,000 filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission in 2025 that listed Yale as the employer. Of 1,099 donations in which…
JAMMU: Security forces on Wednesday intensified the ongoing anti-terror operation in Najote village in J&K’s Kathua district by extending the cordon to at least a dozen surrounding villages, officials said. Yet another such operation was launched in Rajbagh, also in Kathua, after a resident reported sighting two terror suspects.The cordon-and-search operation in Najote was launched…
NTA JEE Main admit card 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Mains January session admit card 2026 shortly. Once released, candidates will be able to download the hall ticket from the official website, jeemain.nta.ac.in. To access the hall ticket, candidates must use: application number, date of…
SRINAGAR: Former J&K chief minister and PDP Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday denounced what she called “profiling of mosques” by police, saying it amounted to interference in religious affairs and was an attempt to humiliate Kashmiri Muslims. It’s Hindu temples that needed to be “profiled”, she said.“If religious places are to be profiled, then start with…
For much of the last two decades, the story of international students in the United States came with a familiar refrain: China set the rhythm, the rest followed. But the refrain has changed. Open Doors 2025—the annual snapshot of international enrolments published by the Institute of International Education—puts hard numbers to that shift. The US…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday dedicated 81 new Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to the people of the national capital on Makar Sankranti, taking the total number of such centres in the city to 319. The new facilities were inaugurated in the Hari Nagar Assembly constituency. The expansion marks progress towards the government’s…
Girls outperformed boys in the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education’s class 10 and 12 examinations, officials said after the results were declared on Wednesday.About 85 per cent of students passed class 10 examinations, while the percentage stood at 84 for class 12.The examinations were held in October-November last year, they said.A total of…
