A jittery Department of Pre-University Education, which is under tremendous pressure, is doing everything it can to conduct the re-examination of chemistry paper smoothly on April 12. In an unprecedented move, paper-setters, who completed setting the fresh set of chemistry paper on Tuesday, are being held at an undisclosed location, ... Read More »

The country’s wait for the first-ever driverless metro ride is soon going to end. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will roll out its swanky new metro trains as soon as October this year. The DMRC on Wednesday unveiled its new age metro trains which have been shipped to the ... Read More »

A law student and online activist was stabbed to death in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of such attacks. Machete-wielding assailants attacked Nazimuddin Samad, 26, a law student at Jagannath University, as he was returning home from classes on Wednesday night, police officer ... Read More »

Devireddy, head cashier in the State Bank of Mysore branch in Sirguppa, is reported to be missing after allegedly taking away Rs. 1.5 crore in cash from the bank’s currency chest. Based on a complaint from the Chief Manager of the bank, Ravi Hegde, on Tuesday, Sirguppa police swung into ... Read More »

This is a bitter pill for those dependent on ration shops for their monthly supply of sugar. Sugar will not be sold through the public distribution system (PDS) in April throughout Karnataka, with the government unable to procure sugar owing to high prices and none willing to participate in the ... Read More »

Giving a shot in the arm to the Oommen Chandy government, the Election Commission (EC) has lifted the ban it had imposed on the launch of the free ration scheme announced in the 2016-17 budget. The commission has permitted the government to go ahead with the scheme subject to the ... Read More »

Tensions between Kashmiri and outstation students kept the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar on the boil as outstation students — protesting the “celebrations” by some local students of India’s T-20 cricket loss to West Indies on March 31 — refused to cooperate with a team of the Ministry of ... Read More »

NGO Loksatta Movement, on whose petition the Bombay High Court pulled up the BCCI and cricket associations in Maharashtra and Mumbai over water wastage, has challenged the use of nearly 60 lakh litres of water to maintain pitches at three stadiums. The court on Wednesday asked the Mumbai Cricket Association ... Read More »

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mann Ki Baat, broadcast once a month, is one of the several programmes likely to be hit by the decision taken by All India Radio (AIR), as it discontinues the practice of sending news alerts as SMSes to its subscribers. From April 5, the public service ... Read More »

The U.S. is looking for stronger and closer relations with India but not for “anything exclusive,” Defence Secretary Ash Carter said, days ahead of his three-day visit to India that starts on April 10. Mr. Carter, a strong proponent of deeper cooperation between India and the U.S., said he spent ... Read More »

Days before U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter is to visit India, there is no clarity on whether three key foundational agreements will be signed during the visit, officials on both sides told The Hindu. Negotiations on the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) — one of the three agreements — which would ... Read More »

Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) undertook its trip to India with a “cooperative” approach, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a press statement that seemed at variance with Pakistani media reports which claimed that the JIT had drawn a blank in India, the MFA said investigations were still ... Read More »