Garhwa (Jharkhand), Aug 13 (IANS) Students of the Plus Two High School in Kandi block of Jharkhand's Garhwa district staged a road blockade and later resorted to stone-pelting at the local police station on Thursday in protest against the transfer of the school's acting headmaster, Malay Kumar Singh.
Ranchi, Aug 12 (IANS) Student protests over alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) recruitment examinations continued for the 19th consecutive day in Ranchi on Wednesday, with protesters maintaining that candidates from both examinations have been facing problems for a prolonged period.
Ahmedabad, Aug 11 (IANS) The Adani Group has selected the first cohort of innovators under its flagship entrepreneurship initiative, 'Vande Bharatam', after receiving more than 26,000 applications from across India.
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues to question Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's alleged dual approach where the Congress has been aggressively protesting against the Centre over reported National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) irregularities and the Delhi Police action while being restrained on similar issues in Jharkhand, where his party is part of the coalition government.
Ranchi, Aug 11 (IANS) Amid the ongoing students' agitation over JPSC and JSSC recruitment examinations in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday clarified the government's stand in the Assembly, expressing its readiness to cancel the 14th Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Preliminary Examination and the backlog examinations.
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Aazad Samaj Party-Kanshi Ram President Chandrashekhar Azad on Tuesday said that Parliament does not belong only to the BJP and the Congress, asserting that several other parties also have important issues that deserve discussion in the House.
Chennai, Aug 11 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the Centre to abolish the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to undergraduate medical courses, reiterating the state’s long-standing opposition to the centralised entrance examination.
Bhiwandi, Aug 11 (IANS) Police in Maharashtra's Bhiwandi have arrested Prakash Pawar, director of a Solapur-based Police Training Institute, in connection with the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) question paper leak case, officials said on Tuesday.
Ranchi, Aug 10 (IANS) As the agitation over irregularities in recruitment examinations intensified in Jharkhand, protesting students adopted unique Gen Z-style demonstrations outside the state Assembly on Monday, with one group organising a sarcastic cake-cutting ceremony to mark Chief Minister Hemant Soren's birthday, while another protester appeared dressed as Spider-Man, drawing attention through social media memes.
New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has entered the investigation into alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission’s (JPSC) 14th Preliminary Examination (PT) and other examinations, registering an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) to examine the financial aspects of the case.
