Next Year, Your Fantastic Marks In The Boards Won't Get You That Coveted...
Admissions to the NITs from next year could be based entirely on JEE-Main scores, with a government-appointed panel likely to recommend scrapping of weightage given to marks obtained in board...
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Jitin Ram Manjhi's Son Caught By Police With Unexplained Cash
In a major embarrassment for ex-Chief Minister of Bihar, Jitan Ram Manjhi, ahead of the Bihar polls, his son Shubham Kumar was allegedly arrested, according to the Hindustan Times, after being...
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Ahead Of Maiden India Visit By PM, Sri Lanka To Release 16 Fishermen
Ahead of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's first foreign visit to India, at least 16 Indian fishermen arrested recently for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters will be released in a...
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Cyrus Poonawala Buys India's Costliest House At Rs 750 Crore
Vaccine billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla has bought a former maharaja's mansion in Mumbai from the U.S. government for around 7.5 billion rupees ($113 million), newspapers reported, making it the most...
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India's Culture Minister Says Hindi Should Be Made Compulsory in School
At a time when learning French or German is the rage among school students, Union Minister of Culture Mahesh Sharma told a TV channel that learning Hindi should be made compulsory in schools across the...
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Bihar State Elections: BJP And Allies Announce Seat Sharing Formula
NEW DELHI -- Following intense negotiations driven by strategic caste calculations, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced its formula to share 243 assembly seats for the upcoming Bihar state election...
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Konkona Sen Sharma And Ranvir Shorey Announced Their Decision To Part Ways
Bollywood actress Konkona Sen Sharma and actor husband Ranvir Shorey have decided to mutually part ways after five years of marriage. The couple, who are parents to four-year-old son Haroon, took to...
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No More Meat Ban In Mumbai. For Now...
Bombay can eat all the meat it wants this week. Period. Various governmental bodies have been clamouring for eight, then four and finally a two day ban on the sale of meat, to ostensibly respect the...
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Somnath Bharti's Anticipatory Bail Plea Dismissed By Delhi Court
NEW DELHI-- A court here on Monday dismissed anticipatory bail plea of AAP leader and former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, who has been booked for domestic violence. Additional Sessions Judge...
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Delhi Government Orders More Beds In Hospitals For Dengue Patients After...
NEW DELHI— The Delhi government has ordered an extra 1,000 beds for public hospitals to treat dengue patients following the suicide of a couple whose 7-year-old son died after allegedly being refused...
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Meet Alia Bhatt's Biggest Fan On Twitter
Meet Brahma Prakash Chaube. जब से तुजसे प्यार हुआ हे... सबने गुनेगार कहा हे pic.twitter.com/3u2cxbbZjz— Shaandaar BP Chaube (@bpchaube) August 7, 2015 He tends to get somewhat philosophical on Twitter....
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15 Literary Spats That Captivated India
Literary spats are amazing--it's great fun to watch from the sidelines as two writers go at each other's throats. As sublime putdowns ("Pankaj Mishra... remains a writer of promise"), name calling...
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How Maneka Gandhi Won The Internet Today With Her Facebook Q&A
Maneka Gandhi, the Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development, doesn't give interviews too often. So, when when she did an Ask Me Anything on Facebook today, to answer questions directly...
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Crazy Things We Do For Cricket
Nothing unites us more than Cricket. Our passion for Cricket is such that no other nation can match. Be it an ODI or a Test, IPL or T20 or the World Cup, our craziness knows no limit. We do anything...
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THAAAAAP: 6 Heated Television Debates That Ended In A Resounding Slap
The video of astrologer Deepa Sharma and a self-appointed godman Om Ji of the Hindu Mahasabha fighting it out on live television has taken the social media by storm today. During a heated debate on...
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Delhi Government Cancels Leave Of Doctors, Launches Helpline To Tackle Dengue...
NEW DELHI—As dengue cases has gripped the capital, with 613 fresh cases reported over the last one week, the Delhi government has decided to cancel the leave of all doctors and paramedical staff...
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World Bank Ranks Gujarat As Best State For Doing Business
NEW DELHI—Gujarat, the state Prime Minister Narendra Modi ruled for more than a decade, is the best state in the country for conducting business, the World Bank said on Monday, in a report that ranks...
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UN Adopts Document For Landmark Security Council Reforms
United Nations—The United Nations General Assembly adopted on Monday a negotiating text by consensus for the Security Council reforms, setting the stage for talks on the long pending process at the...
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Another Little Boy Died Of Dengue Because He Was Turned Away By Delhi's Top...
Another little boy, who was turned away by four top hospitals in Delhi, has succumbed to dengue fever and his family alleged that doctors at insisted he did not have the disease despite testing...
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FTII Students Hold Hunger Strike In Delhi, Detained For Protesting Outside...
NEW DELHI -- FTII students were joined today, by students from other universities here, in a day-long symbolic hunger strike outside I&B Ministry's office against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as...
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