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The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has tweaked the sub-head of a chapter, “Politics in India since Independence” (page 187). Meanwhile, in the same paragraph, the 1984 riots are described as ‘anti-Sikh’.

Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat attended the event at the Pakistan embassy which was also joined by diplomats from a number of countries.

The new visa programme also includes a strengthened training obligation for employers sponsoring foreign skilled workers to provide enhanced training outcomes for Australians in high-need industries and occupations.

Police have arrested 14 persons, including Jayaraman, after people demanded action against them. They were produced before a court and remanded to judicial custody.

The entrance exam for India’s most coveted fashion institute was organized on 21st January 2018, earlier this year, for fashion technology enthusiasts seeking admissions to various UG and PG courses in NIFT.

Congress leader Pramod Tiwari also claimed the rumours regarding Babbar's resignation to be bogus, saying,"I want to clear the issue. Raj Babbar has not resigned from his post of Uttar Pradesh Congress President."

The former Congress president was in Shimla along with her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to inspect her under-construction house at Chharabra.

Alternatively, the government can opt to change the pertinent laws, redefine 'sale' clearly so as to bring bottled water and other packaged products under the ambit of 'sale' and MRP even in hotels and restaurants.

In August last year, the BJP overtook the Congress to become the single-largest party in the Upper House. Fifty-eight Rajya Sabha seats, in addition to one seat in Kerala which fell vacant last year, will go to polls today.

Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan had organised the 1st and 3rd semester examinations of Diploma in Education (D.Ed) in the month of November 2017.

As Congress MLAs protested in the well, the Speaker hurriedly read out the pending Budget proposals and bills. As the Speaker sought a nod in the House through voice vote, he pronounced that the proceedings of the House are adjourned sine die.

The L-G's office in a statement said, "Lt Governor advised that the proposal of home delivery of ration may be referred to Government of India with full details, including all implementation issues, before a final decision is taken.

The Ministry of Law and Justice, in an affidavit filed in response to a plea which sought banning convicted people from forming political parties and becoming their office bearers for the period they are disqualified, sought to dismiss the PIL saying an o...

A similar order was passed by Justice S P Garg on the plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging their acquittal in the money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam case.

A powerful Veerashaiva–Lingayat leader of the party from central Karnataka and Congress MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa and his son and state minister SS Mallikarjuna have openly revolted against the decision indicating that they may even quit the party to...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Maldivian authorities to immediately free two journalists with opposition TV channel Raajje TV who have been held for the past four days, and to "stop hounding" the country's opposition media.