Six students from Rajasthan top JEE main exams

Jaipur (IANS) Rajasthan has produced six toppers who ranked all India first in the coveted JEE Main exams after taking coaching from Kota.

The topper of the latest session whose results were announced on Tuesday night is Pulkit Goyal.

He…

Sputnik's single-dose vax gets DCGI nod for Phase-III trials in India

New Delhi (IANS) The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission for the conducting of the Phase III bridging trials of Sputnik Light on the Indian population. The Sputnik Light is a single-dose Covid-19 vaccine of the Russian…

11 days after pirate attack, no info still of kidnapped Indian sailor

Chennai (IANS) It is more than 10 days since an Indian sailor, Pankaj Kumar, believed to be kidnapped by sea pirates from the ship MV Tampen anchored in West African nation Gabon and there has been no information about his whereabouts, said a family…

Very unhappy: SC on Centre's cherry-picking tribunals' appointments

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the sanctity of recommendations by panel headed by sitting top court judges for various tribunals, as the government has the last say on the matter.

The bench emphasized that it is…

Delhi terror module busted, 14-day police remand for 6 suspects

New Delhi (IANS) A Delhi Court has sent six suspects, accused of planning terrorist attacks in Maharashtra, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh during the forthcoming festival season, to a fourteen-day police custody, an official said here on Wednesday.

Young woman abused, assaulted in public place in Bengaluru

Bengaluru (IANS) Karnataka Police have launched a hunt for an accused for sexually abusing a 22-year-old BPO woman employee at the upscale Langford road in Ashoknagar police station limits in Bengaluru in broad daylight.

According to police,…

India moving away from coal slowly, considerable progress by states: Study

New Delhi (IANS) India alone is home to 7 per cent (21GW) of the global coal project pipeline, which is 56 per cent of South Asia's total, a study showed on Tuesday, with the country moving slowly away from coal at a national level, however considerable…

Mamata suppressed facts in her affidavit, BJP complains to EC

Kolkata (IANS) Fresh controversy has erupted after BJP complained to the Election Commission of India objecting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's candidature from Bhabanipur Assembly constituency as she has suppressed facts in her affidavit…

Bengal Law Minister refuses to appear before ED in coal scam case

Kolkata (IANS) After Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee, West Bengal Law Minister Moloy Ghatak also informed the enforcement directorate that it is not possible for him to go to ED office in New Delhi on Tuesday and…

Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee summons ED, CBI officers

Kolkata (IANS) Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, Biman Banerjee has summoned two senior officers - one each from Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and asked them to appear before him on September 22 with…