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The Health Ministry has written to the HRD Ministry, raising concerns on conducting NEET twice a year as the exam calendar pressure the students.

Along with the red cards, around 250 families, both Muslim and Hindu, were also asked to sign a ‘symbolic bond’ of Rs 5 lakh.

The FIR against the industrialist alleges that he replaced an antique peacock idol with a new one at the Sri Kapaleeswarar temple in Chennai and it was registered on the complaint from a devotee Rangarajan Narasimhan

The Army and NDRF have deployed teams in flood-hit areas Idukki, Ayannkulu and Wayanad, while neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Kerala have also extended help to the Kerala government.

Parsingh Parihar (14), a tribal student from Ambapani village, had complained about his plight to the administration of Barwani district, over 150 kilometres from Indore, on August 7 during a public hearing.

The case came to light when the girl’s family took her home and learnt her ordeal with the help of a sign language expert.

The police said that the accused was picked up from Meerut in western UP and promised that more arrests would be made in the next 48 hours.

When asked why a gynaecologist was not called in time to attend to Koshaliya Devi, the hospital said it faced a staff crunch and there were only three gynaecologists and medical officers at the mother and child wing, against a requirement of five to eight...

Avi, 14, a tenth grader at Silver Creek High School in Evergreen, San Jose, CA, won a gold medal in seven out of the 10 medal events, and a silver medal in two of the events, topping the overall medals table.

The spokesperson said the driver of the train had applied emergency breaks on seeing the herd. But the cows got run over as the train was running full speed.

The leaders from either side expressed hope that the agreement on land border crossing by the two neighbouring countries would go a long way in cementing friendship between Myanmar and India.

The Congress said that while the state is facing a fund crunch, the government is ‘misusing’ the limited funds by announcing such schemes.

Swamy said that the rift widened because of his fight against Sethu Samudram project and his fight against Karunanidhi’s party members’ rampant corruption.

So far neither the BJP nor the AIADMK have come out with an official statement on the issue, nor have leaders from these two parties declared their stance on the ongoing controversy.

The official added that vigil has also been stepped and a close eye is being kept at all category of vehicles entering the airport area.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its report, said that the station modernisation plans should address infrastructural constraints.