Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Federation (APTF) have urged the government to conduct counselling for teachers recruited through DSC-2025 in offline mode. In a statement on Wednesday, APTF State president G. Hridaya Raju and general secretary S. Chiranjeevi said the newly selected teachers were concerned about the government’s plan to conduct web-based counselling for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after he inaugurated the Navi Mumbai International Airport and other connectivity projects on Wednesday, launched a sharpened attack on the Congress, asking it as to why the UPA government led by it in 2008 went soft on Pakistan after the 26/11 attack bled India’s financial capital. The Prime Minister made a...

NEW DELHI: As Bihar gears up for another high-stakes assembly election, the political landscape is once again abuzz – not with Nitish Kumar‘s next move – but with poetry, posturing, and power plays. From poetic pleas for justice to sharp rebukes over “dignity” in seat offers, alliance partners across the spectrum are flexing muscles and...

Union Minister Giriraj Singh meets JD (U) chief and CM Nitish Kumar. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday said, “Nitish Kumar is NDA’s CM face” in the Bihar Assembly elections. The Union Minister ruled out any differences between NDA partners over seat-sharing arrangements for the...

Among the grieving parents in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara cough syrup tragedy, Afsana, mother of three-year-and-eleven-month-old Usaid, who died after consuming the cough syrup prescribed by a doctor. Speaking about the loss, Afsana said she administered the medicine on a doctor’s recommendation, unaware that it would prove fatal. “I gave it to him thinking it was...

Actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) founder Vijay greets people during a public rally, in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an independent investigation led by a former Supreme Court judge into the stampede at party president and actor...