In the latest development, the Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested three more individuals in the NEET-UG paper leak case. According to sources, the three arrested individuals include, Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi, Dipendra Kumar and Shashi Kumar Paswan. Shashi, a B.Tech (Electrical) pass out from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, is one of the masterminds of the paper leak. Moreover, Bishnoi and Dipendra, second-year and first-year medical students at the Bharatpur Medical College respectively, were part of the solver gang. Shashi is an accomplice of Pankaj alias Aditya who was arrested earlier and stole the paper from the trunk from Hazaribagh. According to the information,…
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in poll-bound Jharkhand’s Ranchi told people that after forming government in the state, the BJP will bring out a ‘White Paper’ on demography to protect tribal people and their lands. “Infiltrators are marrying tribal women, buying their land, tribal population is shrinking in Jharkhand,” the Union Home Minister said. Hitting out at Hemant Soren’s government, Amit Shah said, “Jharkhand CM is behind ‘Land Jihad’, ‘Love Jihad’ that are leading to demographic changes in state.” Further speaking at the rally, Amit Shah said, “BJP got more seats in this Lok Sabha election than Congress’…
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday, July 20, deemed the findings of a paper published in the journal Science Advances on life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic in India as “untenable and unacceptable.” The Ministry highlighted several critical flaws in the study’s methodology. In an official statement, the Ministry emphasized that the authors of the study based their conclusions on a subset of households surveyed in the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) between January and April 2021. The authors compared mortality rates in these households for 2020 with 2019 and extrapolated the results to the entire country.…
Sunita Kejriwal, wife of AAP convenor, on Saturday kickstarted party’s Assembly poll campaign in Haryana with the announcement of Delhi Chief Minister’s guarantees for the poll-bound state. With husband Arvind Kejriwal in jail, his wife has taken up the charge of party’s victory in Haryana. The Delhi CM’s wife Sunita Kejriwal announced “Kejriwal Ki Guarantee” in a townhall meeting at Haryana’s Panchkula on Saturday. She was accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, AAP national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak, and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh. AAP has promised to provide free and 24-hour electricity, free treatment, free education, Rs…
The Directorate of Enforcement has arrested Haryana’s Congress MLA Surender Panwar. The Sonepat MLA was arrested from Gurugram past midnight in a case of illegal mining.The federal agency had raided the premises of the 55-year-old legislator in January. It had then arrested former Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) legislator from Yamunanagar, Dilbag Singh, and one of his associates in the case. The money-laundering case stems from several FIRs registered by the Haryana Police for probing alleged illegal mining of boulders, gravel and sand that took place in the past in Yamunanagar and nearby districts in spite of a ban imposed…
Union Public Service Commission Chairperson Manoj Soni has resigned reportedly owing to personal reasons. Soni’s resignation comes a day after the Commission submitted its probe report against trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar and issued show cause notice to cancel her candidature. Soni has reportedly resigned owing to personal reasons, five years before the expiry of his tenure in May 2029. “His resignation is not in any way connected to controversies and allegations surrounding the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) after probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s issue came to the fore,” officials from the Department of Personnel and Training said. Reportedly,…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government imposed a nationwide curfew and ordered the deployment of military forces to maintain order after deadly clashes over the quota system in government jobs escalated on Friday as protesters stormed a jail in Narsingdi on Friday, freeing hundreds of inmates before setting the facility ablaze. The announcement was made by Obaidul Quader, the general secretary of the ruling Awami League party, and came after police and security officials fired on protesters on Friday and banned all gatherings in the capital. The death count in days of violent protests across Bangladesh has now reached 105,…
Controversial IAS officer Puja Khedkar on Friday moved out of Washim, shortly after the UPSC initiated a series of actions against her, including registration of a police case for availing attempts in the civil services exam by faking identity. “Judiciary will take its course,” Khedkar, accused of misusing power and privileges during her training in Pune, told reporters gathered outside the government rest house in Washim, where she joined duty earlier this month. “I will return soon,” she assured the media as she got into a private car and sped away to Nagpur. The UPSC said in a statement that it…
Housing prices in India’s top 30 Tier II markets have surged by up to 94% over the past 4 years, driven by strong demand for residential properties, according to PropEquity, a leading real estate data analytics firm. The analysis compares average launch prices of residential projects from FY24 with rates in 2019-20 across primary markets in these cities. Of the 30 markets analysed, 24 experienced double-digit growth in housing prices, while the remaining six saw single-digit appreciation. The top 10 markets witnessed particularly robust increases, ranging from 54% to 94%. For instance, Agra saw prices skyrocket by 94% to US$…
Has India’s much vaunted National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) helped our cities meet clean air standards to reduce the public health risk that air pollution poses? A new assessment report by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says there are serious concerns with the way the Programme has been run through the five years of its operation. The report by CSE – titled National Clean Air Programme: An agenda for reform – was released on Friday. NCAP was launched by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in January 2019. This is the first ever national effort to…