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NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness as the knowledge partner released the India Innovation Index (III) 2019. Karnataka is the most innovative major state in India. Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh form the remaining top ten major states respectively. The top ten major states are majorly concentrated in southern and western ...

Union HRD Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ chaired the 4th meeting of the IndianInstituteofinformationTechnology(IIITs) Council in New Delhi today.At the outset, the Chairman stressed on the need of leapfrogging by IIITs in order to become world class Institutes. The IIITs should compete with the best Institutes in the world so that the international students prefer our country over others for ...

A ‘low intensity’ earthquake of 4.5 magnitude shook Rajasthan’s Bikaner district on Sunday, a Meteorological (Met) department official said. The earthquake hit Bikaner around 10.36 am, the official said. No casualty or damage to property has been reported so far in the earthquake, a district administration official said. People rushed out of their homes in some areas after feeling the ...

The Income Tax Department conducted search on 9th October 2019 on a prominent business group in Karnataka which runs multiple educational institutions. During the course of the search, the modus operandi of conversion of seats which were originally to be allotted by merit through counselling by MCC maliciously into institutional quota seats through dropout system has been unearthed. Incriminating evidence ...

The Union Cabinet Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today approved to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 01.07.2019 representing an increase of 5% over the existing rate of 12% of the Basic pay/Pension, to compensate for price rise. This increase is in accordance with the accepted ...

The Supreme Court on Monday restrained authorities from cutting anymore trees in Mumbai’s Aarey to set up a Metro car shed. A special bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Bhushan said it will have to examine the entire thing and posted the matter for hearing on October 21 before its forest bench. “Don’t cut anything now,” the bench said. ...

The Delhi leg of Paryatan Parv 2019 concludes in New Delhi today. The entire Rajpath lawns between Janpath and Rafi Marg came alive during the 5 day festival which witnessed a colourful array of Dance, Music and cultural performances from various parts of the country. This was the 3rd edition of ParyatanParv.The idea of Paryatan Parv is to propagate the ...

A UCO Bank official was on saturday robbed of Rs 26 lakh on gun point by three motorcycle-borne miscreants in Bhadar area of Piparpura police station, said police. The bank staffer was transferring the cash from Parsoiaya Babuganj branch to Dhauraha branch when the miscreants opened fire on the van and forced it to stop, police said. They later fled ...

Ten persons were arrested in Burdwan (WB) on Friday for alleged assault on Debanjan Ballav — a Sanskrit college student who was accused of heckling Union minister Babul Supriyo at Jadavpur University on September 19. In his complaint, Ballav, who has been in the eye of storm over the JU campus episode, claimed that he and his girlfriend were dragged ...

Nearly 1,900 people lost their lives and another 46 were reported missing this monsoon season in rains and floods which affected more than 25 lakh in 22 states, Union Home Ministry officials said on Friday. The highest 382 people died in Maharashtra, followed by 227 deaths in West Bengal in rains, floods and landslides that hit as many as 357 ...