After NEET UG paper leak, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan announces computer-based exams from next year

NEW DELHI: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday announced that NEET UG exams will go computer based from next year, while addressing on the row surrounding paper leak.He addressed on the issue of paper leek and alleged irregularities in the examination, clarifying that the government has “zero tolerance towards malpractices.”His announcement came days after…

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25% stakeholder took blow of $743m

NEW DELHI: The turbulence Indian airlines are facing for over a year now has started denting the fortunes of their foreign partners. The going got tough for them after the US-Iran war erupted on Feb 28. Singapore Airlines (SIA), 25.1% stakeholder in Air India (AI), on Thursday disclosed that AI lost $2.8 billion (over Rs…

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NIA reveals Pakistan’s plan to push Ghazwa-e-Hind through ‘doctor-terror’ module

NEW DELHI: NIA’s chargesheet has pulled back the curtain on a sophisticated doctor-terror module, which signals an evolution in the trajectory of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) — from a forest-based terror outfit to an urban threat. This transformation, intel sources said, was scripted by Pakistan-based terror handlers who traded Zakir Musa’s era of visual propaganda for…

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Inside the “Snake Village of India”; a traveller’s guide to this mysterious place of venomous cobras

Snakes are among one of the most feared and unfriendly creatures on Earth. But deep in the heart of Maharashtra’s Solapur district lies a village where we get to see an unimaginable friendship between two extremely opposite species, humans and snakes. Any first-time visitor would be shocked. This is Shetphal, also famous as the “Snake…

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