New Delhi, Mar. 14 : The Government has brought out several initiatives for achieving the objectives of access, equity and equality in the field of higher education. Initiatives such as expansion of premier institutions like IITs/IIMs, provision of scholarships/fellowships to socially backward students, the SWAYAM project for providing online learning, the ranking framework for assessing the […]
Kohat : At least thirty- three miners have been trapped inside Orakzai coalmine in northwest of Kohat city after a gas explosion yesterday. The administration and rescue workers reached the spot and tried their best to remove the mud, which had fallen onto the mine due to a landslide triggered by the blast. Eighteen miners, […]
Seoul : A submarine of North Korea has gone missing and is presumed to have sunk, reports from the US and South Korea said yesterday.The vessel had been reportedly operating off the North Korean coast earlier this week when it disappeared.A South Korean defence ministry official said that Seoul was investigating the reports, while pentagon […]
New Delhi : Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is currently in the United Kingdom and is being sought out in India over charges of money laundering, on Sunday claimed that the banks gave him loans after evaluating all aspects, adding that he is not trying to evade the law enforcement agencies but is on a […]
Malkangiri, Mar. 13 : As many as 56 Naxals, including twenty five women, surrendered before the police in Odisha’s Malkangiri district. Around 56 Maoists belonging to the Odisha – Chhattisgarh Naxal Darava division – including 17 Maoists belonging to the Odisha cadre, surrendered before Chhattisgarh Bastar IG on March 11.Around 50 more Maoist sympathisers had surrendered […]