Patna: The Bihar government Friday suspended 14 engineers in connection with a series of recent incidents of bridge collapse in the state, a senior official said. The decision was taken after a probe panel submitted its report to the Water Resources Department (WRD). “It was found that engineers were negligent and monitoring was ineffective… that is the...

New Delhi: In a significant move to enhance kitchen safety and quality, the Central government Friday made it mandatory for stainless steel and aluminium utensils to conform to the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the Commerce and Industry Ministry said. According to the Quality Control Order issued by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has been appointed as the chairperson of the AAP Parliamentary Party. He has also been chosen as the leader of the party in Rajya Sabha. "Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has always given me the opportunity to raise my voice from the streets to the Parliament. I...

New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo moto cognizance of the derogatory remark made by TMC MP Mahua Moitra against its chairperson Rekha Sharma and sought an FIR against her. This came a day after the TMC, commenting on a video posted on X showing the NCW chairperson's arrival at the site of...

Hathras (UP): The Uttar Pradesh government's SIT probing the Hathras stampede has recorded 90 statements so far, the panel's chief Anupam Kulshrestha said Friday. Kulshrestha, also the Additional Director General of Police (Agra Zone), is leading the three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) preparing a detailed report on the stampede that claimed 121 lives after a satsang here...

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London: Keir Starmer Friday officially became Britain's new Prime Minister after an audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, hours after his Labour Party won the general elections. The 61-year-old Labour leader arrived at the Palace with his wife Victoria Starmer after leading his party to a landslide victory in a landmark UK general election with...

New Delhi: Scrapping the NEET-UG, 2024 exam in its entirety would "seriously jeopardise" lakhs of honest candidates and not be rational in the absence of any proof of large-scale breach of confidentiality, the Centre told the Supreme Court Friday. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), conducted May 5 by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admissions to MBBS,...

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia for an upcoming summit, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra Friday said issues of regional and global interest will be on the agenda of the talks between PM Modi and President Vladimir Putin. In a media briefing here, he also said the annual India-Russia Summit is taking place...

Mumbai: The broader NSE benchmark Nifty advanced further to settle at an all-time high for the third straight session Friday, while the BSE gauge Sensex retreated from the record to slip below the 80k level. The broader NSE Nifty rose 21.70 points or 0.09 per cent to close at its lifetime high of 24,323.85. The 30-share BSE...