Schools across Maharashtra resumed physical sessions for classes 5 to 12 on Monday after being shut for over a year-and-a-half in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with students being welcomed back on campuses with flowers, balloons, sanitisers and social distancing protocols.
India has summoned a senior official of the Pakistan high commission and issued a strong demarche over the incident, official sources said.
The girl mentioned in the note that she had secured 89 per cent marks in her Class 10 exams held earlier this year, but could not get admission under a category where her family could have paid less fees, Sanas said.
Barring stray incidents of violence like stone pelting, the shutdown called by the MVA allies Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party was largely peaceful.
Whether the third wave will ravage us depends on the pace of vaccinations, careful and calibrated opening up of establishments, and a strategy to contain the spread in specific states or pockets.
It will never be possible to recreate an exact account of this epic battle to remember and honour other brave jawans, but one thing that the nation will always do is to bow down their heads in respect and reverence at the war memorial at Chushul called 'The Rezang La War Memorial -- Ahir Dham'.
Kalavati Bandurkar, the widow of a farmer in Vidarbha who shot into limelight after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi mentioned her name in Parliament, is unlikely to file her nomination for the Maharashtra assembly polls as an opposition party candidate as she has been hospitalised.
A group of 5 armed militants of the anti-talk ULFA faction opened fire at some people at Bahbon village.
Indian-born American doctor Jayant Patel, facing accusations of botching operations and causing death of three patients, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges at a court in Brisbane in Australia on Monday.
'Anyone who heard her sing was left with a lump in the throat.'
The court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed
The Disciple is an ode to music and a salute to Mumbai. The city can be harsh, but it also lets the voices of struggling classical musicians exist, although often they live on the edge of society, observes Aseem Chhabra.
Delhi High Court had on Tuesday declined to grant anticipatory bail to Shardaben and had asked her to approach the trial court.
Reserving the order on his bail for Tuesday, the magistrate also gave direction to the authorities to keep him in the jail hospital as the 42-year-old man had alleged bad health.
The firing took place in the Jaipur Polo Ground across the road from Dr Singh's house around 3 pm, police said.
Kishori Lal Verma was the state education minister during the then-BJP government in the early 1990s.
The action hero will now play the saint of Shirdi in the film Malik Ek.
"Both the number of new patients and that of deaths are highest for a single day so far," an official said. 79 persons tested positive for COVID-19 during the day, taking the number of such cases in the country's financial capital to 775, the civic body said.
The man, identified as Kishore Kumar Kombath, had gone missing from his Riyadh home on May 15.
A look at the star arrivals.
A look at the pictures from the prayer meet.
Lack of organisational network and a strong disconnect with the rural population led to the Congress president's defeat in what until now had been described as a party stronghold.
Women dominate Indian banks's clerical and officer rolls, but few make it to the executive office these days, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Watch stars dazzle at the red carpet.
Highly placed sources said late Tuesday night that the decision has been conveyed to 75-year-old Dikshit, who will succeed Nikhil Kumar, a former Delhi Police Commissioner.
A highly respected figure in the field of music, Balamuralikrishna featured in the popular national integration song "Miley Sur Mera Tumhara" in which he rendered Tamil lyrics.
'This proved that whatever was growing in the mosquito's gut was a parasite -- it was almost certainly the malarial parasite.'
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday.
The Delhi Police had closed this case in 1994 for want of evidence.
'When Shah Rukh came into industry, he wanted to do serious roles. He did not want to be a star then. He was not ready to dance. (Choreographer) Saroj Khan would get upset with him. But today, he dances in his films.' Lekh Tandon, who gave Shah Rukh Khan a break in showbiz, talks to Patcy N/ Rediff.com about the superstar.
'If you have never seen Kangana Ranaut on screen before, and instead know more about her in real life and the spirited controversies that seem to happily follow her about, you realise that the actress puts a lot of herself into a screen role, feels Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana is insipid, terribly made, and yet a Warm Enterprise, feels Sreehari Nair.
'Dharamji, Jeetu (Jeetendra), Rajesh Khanna and Shashi Kapoor had unique dance styles. Manoj Kumar would just stand and that became his style. Dharamji was amazing. He is not a dancer at all, he doesn't know anything and yet he danced. I was shocked looking at him in the song Yamla Pagla Deewana. I was thinking, what is he doing? He was jumping and it was unbelievable.' Hema Malini gets candid.
India's unhindered supremacy in the kabaddi competition at the Asian Games continued as both the men's and women's teams successfully defended their respective gold medals with hard-fought final triumphs over Iran in Incheon on Friday.
'Sometimes the cast wouldn't come together; sometimes I wasn't in a position at the box office to make this film. But I didn't give up,' Sanjay Leela Bhansali tells Avantika Bhuyan after Bajirao Mastani won 7 National Awards.
The three main regulators have different approaches to grievance redressal and different standards to stop harmful from coming pitched at the consumer.
There's no steam in the intolerance debate anymore but the opposing sides still refuse to let it go, says Sampath.
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