Research should be encouraged in education system: President Murmu

Research should be encouraged in education system: President Murmu

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | PTI | Pune

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday stressed the need to encourage research in the education system, and said research scholars in India are capable of finding solutions to the problems not only faced by the country but by the world. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 gives impetus to research, she noted...

CBSE conducts surprise inspections in crackdown on dummy schools

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted a series of surprise inspections at 27 schools in Rajasthan and the national capital on Tuesday to check the ‘dummy school’ menace, top officials said. The move comes six months after the board cancelled the affiliation of 20 schools for enrolling dummy students...

Modi: Brunei, Singapore are important partners in India’s Act East policy

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

As he embarked on a visit to Brunei and Singapore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the two nations are “important partners” in India’s ‘Act East’ policy and asserted that his visits would further strengthen the partnership with the two countries and the larger ASEAN region. Modi is...

Amanatullah Khan was dealing with ill-gotten money: ED

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleged on Tuesday that AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was dealing with "ill-gotten" money and indulged in "tainted" cash transactions to purchase an immovable property in Delhi. ED has arrested the 50-year-old legislator from Okhla on Monday after conducting a search at his house. The agency also charged...

Kolhapur royal scion joins Sharad-led NCP

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | T N RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

In a setback to the ruling BJP ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly polls, Raje Samarjeetsinh Ghatge, a member of the erstwhile royal family of Kolhapur who recently quit the saffron party, joined the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) on Tuesday. Forty-one-year-old Samarjeetsinh Ghatge is the royal descendant Raje Samarjeetsinh Vikramsinh Ghatge, who...

Shivaji statue collapse: Sindhudurg district collector shunted out

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | T N RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

In an administrative reshuffle undertaken a week after the much-discussed collapse of the imposing statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Maharashtra Government has shunted out Sindhudurg district collector Kishor S Tawade and posted him in a relatively insignificant position as the new Managing Director of the Pune-based Maharashtra State Farming...

Centre moves SC over CISF deployment in RG Kar College

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | PNS | New Delhi

The Centre on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court alleging "unpardonable" non-cooperation by the West Bengal Government in providing logistical support to the CISF, tasked with providing security at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a trainee doctor was raped and murdered. Terming the alleged non-cooperation of the...

Residents of Greater Noida society fall sick after drinking contaminated water

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 | Staff Reporter | Noida/New Delhi

More than 200 residents of the Supertech Eco Village 2 society in Greater Noida, including 25 children, fell sick after drinking contaminated water on Monday.  The issue came to light when residents were discussing water shortage on a WhatsApp group on Monday evening, citing a resident of Supertech Eco village...

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