Suraj Krishna Bhogi from Andhra Pradesh has topped the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE Main) Paper I, the result of which was declared by the Central Board of Seconday Examination (CBSE), on Monday. Another student from Andhra Pradesh, KVR Hemant Kumar Chodipilli, grabbed second All India Rank (AIR) while Parth Laturia from Rajashtan, with 350 marks, secured third rank. […]
» Read moreA South Asian will head Britain’s Home Office for the first time as the government sought to contain an escalating crisis over its treatment of Commonwealth citizens and its tough immigration regime more widely. Sajid Javid, the son of a bus driver who emigrated to Britain from Pakistan, is a former banker and MD at Deutsche Bank, who became an […]
» Read moreAn Indian-origin woman and her grandparents died and her two children were injured after a fast-moving blaze swept through their home in Queens, New York City, a media report said. Harleen Maggo and her paternal grandparents Ragvir Kaur-Kainth, 82, and Pyara Kainth, 87, died in the incident late on Saturday. Ms. Maggo’s two children, an eight-year-old girl and a six-year-old […]
» Read moreSixty alleged supporters and members of the outlawed Communist Party India (Maoist) surrendered to the police in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday. “Impressed by Chhattisgarh’s surrender and rehabilitation policy for the Maoists, 60 Maoists surrendered in presence of senior police officials in Narayanpur today,” Narayanpur district police said in a statement. Most of the Maoists and their supporters, who […]
» Read moreUS Senate voted on Thursday to approve former CIA director Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, after a bruising battle by Democrats against President Donald Trump’s nominee. Mr. Pompeo, who earned Mr. Trump’s confidence after a year at the CIA, was accused by Democrats as being too bellicose and harbouring anti-Muslim and homophobic sentiments. But after barely getting the nomination […]
» Read moreWoman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday proposed amendment of an existing “scheme” for boys, who have been raped or sexually exploited, to be compensated on the lines of a similar law for girls. She also announced a study on male survivors of child sexual abuse — a first-of-its-kind study exclusively for males. “Another much neglected sphere of […]
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