Over 13 lakh Indian students studied abroad in 2024: NITI Aayog

IANS | December 22, 2025 9:05 PM

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India continues to send a large number of students overseas for higher education, with more than 13.35 lakh Indians studying abroad in 2024, highlighting the country’s growing dependence on foreign universities despite having the world’s largest college-age population, according to a report released by NITI Aayog on Monday.

J&K: 30,000 houses built in Doda under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

IANS | December 22, 2025 7:38 PM

Jammu, Dec 22 (IANS) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), one of the flagship schemes of the Modi government, is helping realise the housing target of poor and marginalised families across the country, by providing them monetary assistance to build a dream home of their own.

Maha: Verbal duel broke out between Fadnavis and Sanjay Raut

IANS | December 22, 2025 7:06 PM

Mumbai/Nagpur, Dec 22 (IANS) A fierce war of words has erupted between the ruling MahaYuti and the opposition following the landslide victory of the BJP-led alliance in the Maharashtra Nagar Parishad and Nagar Panchayat elections.

Another religious 'secular' political entity rises in the East

Jayanta Bhattacharya | December 22, 2025 5:49 PM

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) West Bengal's IPS officer-turned-politician Humayun Kabir may not be the first leader to eye a favourable mandate from more than 30 per cent Muslim population in the state, but perhaps the leader holding an extra edge in capturing religious sentiments with his intent of building a "Babri Masjid" in Murshidabad district.

'Not bulldozed, rebuilt': Think Tank CEO takes on Congress over VB-G RAM G Act

IANS | December 22, 2025 4:20 PM

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The political debate over the newly enacted Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act has intensified. Akhilesh Mishra, CEO of BlueKraft Digital Foundation, has issued a detailed rebuttal to Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, who reposted Sonia Gandhi’s article accusing the Centre of “bulldozing” MGNREGA to replace it with the new Act.