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New Delhi, Jun 19: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has directed CBSE to continue conducting the Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in the 20 Indian languages as earlier. The directive by Javadekar came following criticism of CBSE's decision to remove 17 languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati and Bengali from the list of options for CTET. "CTET examination will be

Mumbai, Jun 19: ICICI Bank named group veteran Sandeep Bakhshi as its interim head, and said Chief Executive Chanda Kochhar would go on leave pending the completion of a probe over an alleged conflict of interest that has led to months of controversy for the lender. Bakhshi, who currently heads ICICI's life insurance arm, will take up a newly created position of chief operating officer at the bank

New Delhi, Jun 18: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday urged citizens to pay their due share of taxes “honestly” to reduce dependence on oil as a revenue source, and virtually ruled out any cut in excise duty on petrol and diesel, saying it could prove to be counter-productive. While salaried class pay their due share of taxes, Mr. Jaitley said “most other sections” have to improve their

New Delhi, Jun 18: Bilateral ties between India and China can't take the strain of another Doklam episode, the Chinese envoy to India Luo Zhaohui said on Monday, emphasising on the need to find a "mutually acceptable solution" on the boundary issue through a meeting of the Special Representatives. The Chinese envoy said at an event here that "some Indian friends" had suggested a trilateral summit

Bhopal, Jun 18: The Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday said that it was not in talks with the Congress for an alliance for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls slated for later this year. A senior state leader of the Mayawati-led party added that it would, as things stand today, contest all 230 Assembly seats in the state. Talking to news agency, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) state president Narmada Prasad

New Delhi, Jun 18: India today welcomed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's announcement extending the unilateral ceasefire with militant groups, and hoped that the gesture would be reciprocated by them as well as their supporters. Last week, the Afghan government announced a seven-day ceasefire with an aim to encourage the Taliban to join the reconciliation process. Subsequently, the Taliban also

Gorakhpur, June 17: Suspended paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders - Kamlesh Paswan and Satish Nangalia - of having a role behind the attack on his brother Kashif Jameel on June 10. In this regard, Kafeel, while addressing a press conference here on Sunday, urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and a high court judge to initiate a probe in the

New Delhi, Jun 17: Four non-BJP Chief Ministers met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 17 at the meeting of the NITI Aayog’s fourth general council meeting here and urged him to immediately resolve the problems of the Delhi government. The four Chief Ministers — West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan, Karnataka’s H.D. Kumaraswamy and Andhra Pradesh’s N. Chandrababu Naidu — have

New Delhi, Jun 17: Agencies probing the alleged USD 2-billion PNB fraud have detected that absconding diamond merchant Nirav Modi possessed at least half-a-dozen Indian passports and a fresh FIR is being mulled against him for this offence, officials said today. Modi has been traced to Belgium by Indian intelligence agencies and his frequent travels, despite the revocation of his passport, have

New Delhi, Jun 17: In more trouble for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is set to soon file a fresh charge sheet against him and his companies on charges of money laundering and allegedly cheating a consortium of nationalised banks to the tune of Rs 6,027 crore, officials said today. With this charge sheet (also known as the prosecution complaint), official sources told