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Cong says parliamentary panel's report exposes ‘grave incompetence, malpractice’ in NTA, Education Ministry

IANS | October 11, 2026 10:29 AM

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Central government following the release of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education’s report on the National Testing Agency (NTA), alleging that the findings expose “grave incompetence and malpractice” within the examination-conducting body and the Ministry of Education.

PM Modi pays tributes to Nanaji Deshmukh, calls him 'remarkable nation-builder'

IANS | October 11, 2026 9:30 AM

New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to Nanaji Deshmukh, renowned social activist and politician, on his birth anniversary, calling him a "remarkable nation-builder", while adding that the government will keep working towards realising his vision of a "strong and self-reliant India".

Bangladesh’s NCP convenor, whose leader threatened India’s Northeast, backs CJP protests

IANS | October 11, 2026 12:01 AM

Dhaka, Oct 10 (IANS) Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam, whose party has allied with the radical Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami and one of whose leaders had reportedly threatened to capture India’s ‘Seven Sisters’ and the Siliguri Corridor, on Saturday weighed in on India’s internal affairs, backing the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protests.

'Wanted to caution people regarding distorted narrative': Ex-diplomat on backing SIR in open letter

IANS | October 10, 2026 9:13 PM

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) After at least 124 former civil servants, with direct or indirect involvement earlier in India's electoral process, wrote an "open letter to the citizens of India" on Saturday, one of its signatories and former Indian diplomat Bhaswati Mukherjee said that the former civil servants wanted to make people understand that a "distorted narrative" was being spread against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Protesters’ detention in Delhi shows govt ‘terrified’: Priyanka Gandhi

IANS | October 10, 2026 5:29 PM

New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday criticised the detention of young men and women exercising their right to protest, claiming that the security curbs for the CJP’s protest on SIR in Delhi show that the government is “terrified” that its “illegitimacy” is being exposed.

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