Politics

NEW DELHI: With the NEET-UG 2026 retest scheduled for June 21 amid heightened security concerns, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday launched a nationwide training programme for examination officials and simultaneously dismissed a viral claim of another NEET paper leak as fake.The new initiative, titled Pariksha Karmayogi: Capacity-Building Programme for Examination Officials, has been…

The kitchen still smells the same, but no one’s cooking for three anymore. The light over the dining table, once dimmed by 9 pm to signal the end of the day, now stays on whenever someone feels like it, or off, for weeks, when the house empties out entirely.Across Indian cities, a quiet shift is…

(Image source: S Jaishankar X) NEW DELHI: Finnish foreign minister Elina Valtonen offered unexpected support to External affairs minister S Jaishankar on India’s purchase of Russian oil.Speaking at the Kultaranta Talks on Thursday, Valtonen said India had operated within the framework of the oil price cap introduced by Western nations following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.During…

You can search the internet on how to survive in space, but that does not make you an astronaut. You have opinions about cricketers, but you would not be coaching Virat Kohli on what to do on the pitch. You have opinions about geopolitics but has that ever made you the external affairs minister?So why…

The Iranian Embassy in India on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s allegation that Iran was behind the drone attack on Indian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the accusation “baseless.” The embassy further slammed Washington, accusing it of attempting to divert attention from the recent strikes on ships carrying Indian crew members.In a…

SRINAGAR: Nasir Aslam Wani, the advisor to Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday called for the revival of the apex committee to oversee the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.In 2009, the government in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, then also headed by Abdullah, constituted the apex committee to oversee…

IAF AN-32 aircraft crashes in Assam, 5 dead; Delhiites to pay more for electricity from next month ‘Routine sortie’: IAF on what led to An-32 aircraft crash in Assam that killed 5 The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed that five personnel were killed after an AN-32 transport aircraft crashed during a routine sortie near Jorhat,…

NEW DELHI: The INDIA bloc hit the “reset” button this week with a five-point truce plan. The opposition alliance met after a gap of two years to recalibrate their anti-BJP strategy. There was some hard talk, some emotional hugs, and a lot of reconciliation to keep the alliance intact and relevant in the face of…

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency has launched a dedicated digital training programme for examination officials on the iGOT Karmayogi Bharat platform to strengthen supervision and invigilation of its examinations, including NEET-UG.Titled ‘Pariksha Karmayogi: Capacity-Building Programme for Examination Officials’, the programme has been designed to strengthen the capacity of examination functionaries and to ensure the…

NEW DELHI: Paving the way for the eviction of Jaipur Polo Ground in the Race Course area of the national capital, a Delhi court declined to grant interim protection to the Indian Polo Association (IPA) against the Centre’s order directing it to vacate the ground.The order dated June 12 was posted on the court website…