NEW DELHI:  In a bid to provide relief to school students, the NCERT syllabus will be reduced by half from the 2019 academic session, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said. He said the school syllabus was more than that of BA and B.Com courses, and it needed to be reduced by half so that students

At least nine schoolchildren of a government middle school in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district were crushed to death by a speeding SUV on Saturday when they were about to cross National Highway 77 after school. Body parts and blood lay scattered across the busy road that connects Muzaffarpur to north

New Delhi: Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) of India, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, started its three-day long All India Conference at its New Delhi office on Friday. The event, based on the theme “Reclaiming Dignity, Designing Future”, was started after Nahas Mala, national president

Jaipur: A 25-year-old migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district, who was allegedly lynched by a mob on February 3 on suspicion of being a child lifter, died at a hospital on Wednesday. When Mohammad Faisal Siddique was taking his friend Aslam Ansari’s two-year-old daughter to market to

New Delhi: A 23-feet-wide replica of the Moon using imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera and created with the help of UK space agency will tour India this month. “Museum of the Moon” by British artist Luke Jerram will land at the British Council on February 23 and stationed at

HEMTABAD (WB): Two girls breached the security of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and climbed the podium from where she was addressing a public meeting in North Dinajpur district on Thursday and almost touched her feet. The two, who said they are siblings, crawled up the stairs to the podium and t

Finding no discrepancy in the investigation of the 2007 Gorakhpur riots hate speech case, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ petition challenging the Uttar Pradesh government’s refusal to grant sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. A division bench, comprising J

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has busted a child pornography racket operating internationally on a WhatsApp group. The agency has arrested 20-year-old Nikhil Verma in connection with the case. Verma was picked from Kannuaj, Uttar Pradesh. According to CBI, the WhatsApp group was be

NEW DELHI: According to Ministry of Railways, more than one lakh job openings are available now and interested candidates with class 10 to engineering qualifications may visit Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) websites to complete the application formalities. Online applications have been invited for

Honeypreet, the adopted daughter of rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was produced in district courts here on Wednesday for the hearing on framing of charges against her and other dera functionaries in connection with the Panchkula violence. During the arguments, public prosec

BJP MLA Lokendra Singh, 45, and three others died in a road accident on Wednesday after their vehicle rammed into a truck near Kamlapur police station area in Sitapur district. Singh was on his way to attend UP Investors’ Summit in Lucknow. Police suspect the accident took place when the MLA’s drive

Opposition leaders in West Bengal have slammed the Mamata Banerjee administration over the brutal gang rape of a tribal woman in South Dinajpur district earlier this week. The woman, who is fighting for her life at a state-run hospital after a couple of surgeries, was allegedly mutilated with a m

evenge is a dish best served cold, and maybe for an Uttar Pradesh farmer, it is best served biting off a snake's head and chewing it before spitting it out. A farmer identified as Sonelal hailing from UP's Hardoi, to seek revenge, bit off a snake's head and chomped it because the momentary lapse

New Delhi: Asserting her right as an individual with free choices, the woman at the centre of the 'Kerala Love-Jihad' case has told the Supreme Court that she is a Muslim and wants to continue living like a Muslim. She has also told the Court that she wants to live with her husband as a couple be

Mumbai: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday raised the issues of ‘beef ban’ in the country, saying one can eat beef if he wants, but why to have festival for the same. “You want to eat beef, then eat. Why Festival? Similarly, a ‘Kiss Festival’, if you wish to kiss why do you need a festiva

SHILLONG: Visiting this poll-bound state for the second time this year, BJP national president Amit Shah on Friday promised to make Meghalaya a model and corruption-free state in the next five years if his party is voted to power. Speaking at a thinly-attended rally at the Malki ground here, Shah s

NEW DELHI: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) class 12 exams are over. The exam was held from 6-16 February 2018 in two shifts: 9.45 am to 1.00 pm and 1.45 pm to 5.00 pm. Close to 1000 students were expelled for cheating during the exam. Board Chairman Anand Kishore told the media that more the s

An impoverished tribal woman in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district donated the body of her 21-year son, who died in an accident, to a hospital in Jagdalpur as she did not have any money to transport his body to her village for his last rites. The victim identified as Baaman of Kutulnaar village was r