9+ hour, 40+ min ago   (316+ words) President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday accepted the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and assigned the additional charge of the Education Ministry to Union Minister Pralhad Joshi. The move came hours after Pradhan announced that he had submitted his…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (392+ words) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET paper leak controversy has joined a short list of occasions when the Narendra Modi government has reversed course or made significant concessions in the face of sustained public or political pressure…...

10+ hour, 23+ min ago   (539+ words) National Herald If you strolled past Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Chandigarh’s Sector 17, or the historic lanes of Pune recently, you might be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled into a high-budget, low-inhibitions internet convention Spider-Man was there, so was…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (348+ words) The 31-year-old decorated lifter, who has had a chequered career since Tokyo 2020 due to her battle with injuries, is one of the marquee names in the Indian contingent in Glasgow along with two other Olympic medallists – javelin ace Neeraj Chopra…...

12+ hour, 52+ min ago   (341+ words) Loud cheers erupted at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest site at Jantar Mantar after founder Abhijeet Dipke announced Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, declaring it the movement’s first major victory. Pradhan’s resignation sparked celebrations among students and CJP…...

13+ hour ago   (518+ words) A statewide bandh called by student organisations over alleged irregularities in competitive examinations and police action against protesters turned violent in several parts of Bihar on Saturday, with clashes, stone pelting and arson reported from multiple districts. The bandh, organised…...

13+ hour, 21+ min ago   (661+ words) "India's 'students' echo' has finally reached the threshold of the arrogant power," Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Saturday (July 25), hailing Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation as the triumph of a nationwide student movement that had demanded accountability over…...

16+ hour, 31+ min ago   (446+ words) As Assam grapples with one of its worst flood disasters in decades, experts say the devastation in the state's Upper Assam region is the result of a combination of extreme rainfall, climate change and human-induced changes to the landscape that…...

16+ hour, 46+ min ago   (479+ words) On Monday, 20 July, the national capital became the epicentre of a student uprising that rang out across the country and even abroad in cities like NYC, San Jose and London, where the Indian diaspora has a sizeable presence. Delhi’s fortissimo…...

15+ hour, 57+ min ago   (885+ words) Any game, or contract, is based on, and presupposes, mutually accepted rules which govern and bind the participants. Democracy is one such contract, the ultimate social contract, in which the citizens (the ruled) give up their individual powers to the…...