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While 86.25% of the registered male candidates appeared for the test, which 6.38 percentage points lower than 2019, 85.02% of the female registered candidates appeared for NEET. Therefore, for women, the percentage points dropped by 8.01 percentage from l...

Melbourne (AP) Australia's second-largest city, Melbourne, has loosened lockdown restrictions as new and active COVID-19 continue to decline. From midnight Sunday, Melbourne residents will no longer face limits on the time they can spend away from their...

Washington, Oct 17 (AP) President Donald Trump is making a late reelection pitch to voters Saturday in Michigan and Wisconsin, states in the Upper Midwest that were instrumental to his 2016 victory but may now be slipping from his grasp. He's facing hea...

A total of five people have been arrested and another five detained in connection with the Thursday incident. Also, 12 teams have been formed to nab the other accused, including local BJP leader Dhirendra Pratap Singh, according to the police, which has a...

Around 100 people took part in the rally, organised by the Mother Teresa International Award Committee, demanding the immediate release of the 82-year-old Jesuit priest, who was arrested from his Ranchi residence by the NIA in connection with the Bhima-Ko...

New admissions will be held for the existing students as regular ones, he said. "The final-year students will be allowed to pass out but those taking admission in these schools in January next year will have to study as regular students," he said.

Two men were arrested from Maharashtra for allegedly setting a local activist on fire at a village near Panaji in Goa, police said on Saturday. With the help of Maharashtra police, Mapusa residents Shrikant Badigar and Prashant Laxman Dabholkar were nab...

: A total of 37 candidates were on Saturday declared as nominated for the November 3 bypolls to Sira and Rajarajeshwari Nagar Assembly segments in Karnataka. The declaration comes following the scrutiny of the nomination papers, poll officials said...

'Zindagi' programme is run by academician Ajay Bahadur Singh, who himself wanted to become a doctor as a youngster but had to make do without medical coaching and shelve his dream because of severe financial constraints.

Hours after the Madhya Pradesh Congress released its manifesto for bypolls to 28 Assembly seats in the state with its farm loan waiver scheme finding prominent mention, the ruling BJP called it a lie in which farmers were given "fake certificates". The...

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday said the move to reserve beds for COVID-19 patients in several private hospitals here was to "mitigate the spread of virus" and those levelling allegations on the government were trying to "jeopardise effor...

The Rudranath Temple in the Panch Kedar pilgrimage circuit of Uttarakhand closed for devotees on Saturday in view of the approaching winter during which it remains snowbound. The priests bathed the presiding deity, Shiva, with panchamrit at brahma muhu...

These are the top stories we are covering this evening: Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine trials to take place in India; BJP MLA's aide releases video alleging conspiracy after Ballia shootout; Jacinda Ardern wins second tern as New Zealand PM; Probe ag...

A Congress press release said Gandhi will take a Special Flight from Delhi for Kozhikode Airport on October 19.

Releasing the manifesto titled 'Badlav Ka Sankalp' (commitment to change), Tejashwi Yadav said their government, if elected, would first approve the process for appointments on about 10 lakh jobs in the government.

A case has been registered against two women for allegedly cheating their school friend to the tune of Rs 3 lakh in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Saturday. The police on Thursday registered an offence against Madhuri Sonar (33) and Priti Vhal...