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In a sheer irony, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has been asked to direct state governments to fill up a large number of vacant posts in the Medical Teaching Service within a specified period, while three-quarters of the posts in the four autonomous boards of the NMC are lying vacant.The Board of Undergraduate Medical Education,…

New Delhi: Defense Minister stressed the need for strong infrastructure along the border Rajnath Singh The Border Roads Organization (BRO) on Wednesday said it has been entrusted with infrastructure development along the nearly 1,600-km India-Myanmar border, an initiative that will further strengthen its border management capabilities.Rajnath, who chaired a meeting of a Parliamentary Advisory Committee…

New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah He is leading an informal group of ministers (GoM) working on “overarching strategic issues” arising from the ongoing conflict in West Asia, including declines in supply of cooking gas and LNG, the primary feedstock for urea production.Shah has already held meetings with other ministers including Fertilizer Minister JP Nadda…

New Delhi: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Wednesday warned hotels and restaurants against levying additional charges on food bills under headings like “LPG charge,” “gas surcharge,” and “fuel cost recovery”.The authority has issued an advisory invoking the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act observing that such charges are being levied by default to…

New Delhi: Mumbai-based Raja Academy president Muhammad Saeed Noori on Wednesday issued the challenge Supreme Court The Center recently ordered that all schools can start the day’s work with community singing of the full version of the National Anthem.Bande Mataram‘, which invokes the motherland as a Hindu deity, as it constitutionally infringes upon the religious…

NEW DELHI: In a bid to wean consumers away from LPG, the government has decided to stop supply of cylinders after three months to households who have access to piped natural gas but have shied away from getting connections. India imports about 60% of its LPG needs, of which about 90% comes through the Strait…

New Delhi: On a day when Parliament gave its stamp of approval to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2026, amid demands by opposition MPs that the bill be referred to a standing committee for wider consultation, two National Councils for Transgender Persons of the community sent their resignations to the Social Justice Minister….

SRINAGAR: PDP MLA Waheed Parra’s private member’s bill, proposing to create 16 new districts in J&K and two additional divisions in Jammu, has come under fire from the NC and opposition BJP, who have questioned the intent behind the proposed legislation.The NC said the bill was a “deliberate attempt to subvert the government’s intention to…

JAMMU: Border Security Force (BSF) troops on Wednesday detained a Pakistani infiltrator at the international border in Ramgarh sector of Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir. Later in the day, Kathua SSP Mohita Sharma conducted a comprehensive security review and inspection of border areas in Kathua.BSF personnel on border duty spotted a suspect near Ramgarh’s…

Nirav Modi’s appeal to reopen proceedings against his extradition to India was rejected on Wednesday by London’s High Court of Justice, King’s Bench Division, which ruled that the appeal did not meet the threshold of “extraordinary circumstances” required to reconsider the case. The court held that the grounds presented, including reliance on the Bhandari judgment,…