Puducherry: Chief Minister of Puducherry V Narayanasamy on Sunday alleged that Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi was blocking 10 per cent horizontal reservation for government school students in medical courses. The allegation comes a day after Bedi announced that she had referred to Union Home Ministry the proposal of territorial government to provide the quota. Narayanasamy … Read more
NEW DELHI: The result for JEE-Mains was announced on Friday with 24 students scoring 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam which was postponed twice in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Telangana has maximum 100 percentile scorers at 8, Delhi is at the second spot with 5 hundred percentile scorers followed by Rajasthan (4), … Read more
New Delhi: The Indian Railways will start conducting computer-based examinations for around 1.40 lakh posts from December 15, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav said Saturday. Around 2.42 crore applications have been received for these posts, he said. These are, 35,208 posts in non-technical popular categories (NTPC) like guards, office clerks, commercial clerks and others, … Read more
Even as Opposition parties are preparing to move the Supreme Court seeking postponement of JEE and NEET exams, education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ says we must “rise above political considerations” as delaying exams any further would create an “untenable situation”. Excerpts from an interview with Anubhuti Vishnoi: On Opposition CMs seeking a deferment of NEET … Read more
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Seven Opposition Chief Ministers on Wednesday decided to seek a review of the Supreme Court decision to hold JEE and NEET examinations in September and to turn Thursday’s GST Council meet into a stormy event of protest against non-payment of GST dues to states. The virtual meeting convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi … Read more