Girls outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 88.67 as opposed to 85.32.
As the Delhi High Court legalised gay sex among consenting adults in a path-breaking judgment on Thursday, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government reacted cautiously by stating that it will have to examine the judgment in detail before taking any decisions. "We need to examine the details of the judgment. Let me examine it," Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily told reporters in New Delhi.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to direct the Central Board of Secondary Education to conduct a fresh All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which was mired in controversy after its question papers were leaked.
The bill to nullify retrospective taxation offers a fair solution within the framework of Indian law and Parliamentary sovereignty to companies which have been subjected to such demands, Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said on Thursday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced 'The Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021' in the Lok Sabha that seeks to withdraw tax demands made using a 2012 retrospective legislation to tax the indirect transfer of Indian assets. The Bill provides for the withdrawal of tax demand made on "indirect transfer of Indian assets if the transaction was undertaken before May 28, 2012 (i.e. the day the retrospective tax legislation came into being)."
AQ Khan, a controversial scientist known as the father of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear programme, passed away here on Sunday after a brief illness. He was 85.
The Bihar toppers scandal probe has hit a roadblock.
New twist emerges in Bihar's toppers controversy.
'The question is: Who misrepresented the facts to the then PM? It was not A Raja but Pulok Chatterjee, in consultation with T K A Nair, as he had suppressed the most relevant and controversial part of the letter of A Raja from the then Prime Minister,' says the special CBI judge in his 2G spectrum case verdict.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the state.
The matter pertains to the Rs 173.8 million severance offer given to former CFO Rajiv Bansal in October 2015 when he was allegedly forced to step down due to differences with then chief executive Vishal Sikka over the acquisition of Israeli technology firm Panaya for $200 million.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf unravels the chronology of controversy in the Aryan Khan drug bust case.
The SC set aside the 2011 verdict of the Kerala high court which had directed the state to set up a trust to take control of management and assets of the historic Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple.
Following the Centre's tough stand on Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's controversial comments on terrorism, nine teams from the National Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence Bureau and other agencies are scanning the former's activities, while special teams are scanning every footage of his speeches.
The Parliamentary panel examining the controversial nuclear liability bill is expected to finalise its report in time for introduction of the draft legislation during the monsoon session beginning July 26. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment on Forests is examining the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, 2010 that was introduced in the Lok Sabha on May 7 amid stiff resistance from a united Opposition.
Wolverhampton Wanderers had a goal controversially ruled out by VAR as they were held to a 0-0 draw at home to Leicester City, who finished with 10 men, in the Premier League on Friday.
The order said the two leaders who made objectionable comments while campaigning during election rallies be removed from the list of BJP's 'star campaigners'. Thakur and Verma can still canvass for the BJP but they will have to bear the campaign expenditures.
16,933 candidates have qualified UPSC's civil services preliminary examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, the results of which were declared in a record 50-day time.
If the process becomes completely online, there will be no intervention from a state government at any level.
Professor Dr Abrar Ahmed, however, said his tweet had been 'misunderstood' and he had posted it as a 'satire' on how minorities are being 'targeted' by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
Soon after the above government order was released, the Opposition strongly condemned the move.
Anil Kumar Mishra who has cleared the Civil Services prelims in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and has been educated in a Hindi medium school of Bihar in a rural area tells us why the opposition towards the exam holds no water.
The two met during a training in Mussorie and it was love at first sight.
Singh had gone underground after resigning from the board two weeks ago ever since his name figured in the Class 12 toppers' scam.
He was medically examined then shifted him to jail number 2, whose other notable inmates include gangster Chhota Rajan.
The central government has decided to retain the civil services aptitude test and set the qualifying limit at minimum 35 per cent.
The government appealed to protesting Civil Services aspirants to be "patient" and said it would not tolerate any injustice to them on the basis of language.
There is discontent amongst many strategic analysts against Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid's stand on the fallout of the Snowden's leaks. The news of the US National Security Agency's bugging the Indian embassy in Washington alongwith the embassies of 37 other countries has been taken lightly by India.
The move may trigger a confrontation between the AAP dispensation and the LG office.
There were reports that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader complained of high blood pressure and sugar levels and a doctor was called to examine him.
Shoojit Sircar's Madras Cafe, starring John Abraham as a RAW agent, is a political espionage thriller.
LVB had faced some serious flak in terms of bad loans, earnings and credit rating downgrades, since 2016.
And these colleges are affiliated to the Bihar School Examination Board.
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
Answer sheets are found to be missing from BSEB office when the SIT sought them for a forensic test, reports M I Khan from Patna.
With the latest AgustaWestland helicopter import scandal, it is time to re-examine the role of the ubiquitous but ostensibly banned defence agents, middlemen, intermediaries, brokers, consultants, weapon merchants or reps as they are variously known, says Rahul Bedi
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
Following that nerve-wracking final, the ICC faced the wrath of fans and former players over the controversial rule.
In an interview to PTI, WhatsApp head Will Cathcart said the Facebook-owned company remains committed to privacy and security of users across India and will continue to explain to users that their messages are end-to-end encrypted.
Key documents related to the seven-year-old scam go missing from medical college in Gwalior.
A special investigation team of the Delhi police on Friday questioned senior journalist Nalini Singh in connection with the murder case of former union minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar.
