The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not declare the Class 12 Board exam results today, sources from the Board have said. A Delhi High Court order yesterday, on May 23, directed the CBSE to restore the moderation policy – which allows the provision of extra marks to students for difficult questions – for the time being. A high-level ...

The employees of the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from Wednesday night against alleged failure of the government in cracking down on illegal buses and passenger vehicles. Over 7,000 employees of the UTC are likely to join the strike which will hit the operation of around 1,400 buses. Ashok Chaudhary, general secretary of Uttaranchal ...

At least 21 Char Dham pilgrims are feared dead while seven others have been injured after a bus carrying devotees from Indore in Madhya Pradesh plunged into a gorge near Dharasu in Uttarkashi on Tuesday. The bus returning from Gangotri was on its way to Chinyalisaur when it fell into a 250m deep gorge. Ram Singh Meena, additional director general ...

New Delhi/Islamabad, May 23(PTI) The Indian Army  said on Tuesday that it launched “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control, inflicting “some damage”, days after two of its troopers were beheaded. It also released a video of the military action which showed some structures in a forested area crumbling in a heap under the impact of ...

An Indian Air Force Su-30 fighter plane is missing after it lost radio contact 60km north of Tezpur in Assam. The Russia-made fighter jet, with two pilots on board, took off from Salonibari in the north-eastern state at 10.30am on Tuesday. The IAF’s Sukhoi-30 fleet has been plagued by engine troubles and poor serviceability. India in March signed a pact ...

Samsung on Monday said it will showcase the world’s first “stretchable” panel during the SID 2017 hosted by the Society for Information Display US tech fair. The South Korean company said the stretchable OLED display is unique since it can bend in both directions, while previous flexible panels could only bend in one direction, Yonhap news agency reported. Industry watchers ...

Veteran actor and parliamentarian Paresh Rawal has attracted a lot of flak on Twitter for saying the army should “tie” author Arundhati Roy to an army jeep instead of tying a “stone pelter”. “Instead of tying a stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy,” Rawal tweeted on Sunday night. Twitter users termed Rawal’s tweet as “offensive” and “incited ...

The Kejriwal-Jaitley saga got murkier when Union Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday filed a fresh defamation suit of Rs 10 crore against Arvind Kejriwal over the use of an “objectionable” word by Delhi Chief Ministers lawyer Ram Jethmalani in the Delhi High Court recently. Jaitley, who holds twin portfolios of Finance and Defence, filed the second defamation suit after Kejriwals counsel ...

At least nineteen people were killed and about 50 injured after an ‘explosion’ at the Manchester Arena in the United Kingdom on Tuesday morning. According to a statement released by the Greater Manchester Police, the incident is currently being treated as a ‘terrorist incident’. The management of Manchester Arena, where the Ariana Grande’s concert was held, has released a statement ...

A landslide at Kakdighat, around 40 km from Nainital, resulted in a huge boulder falling on top of a passenger bus carrying pilgrims, killing 5 people and leaving 11 injured on Monday afternoon. Those with minor injuries were taken to a nearby government hospital, while two critically injured people were admitted in the Dr Sushila Tiwari Government Medical College and ...