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As per the latest guidelines of the UGC, a student can pursue two full time academic programmes in the physical mode or one in physical mode and another in Open and Distance Learning/Online mode or up to two online programmes simultaneously.

Hyderabad: Protests against the Centre’s move to privatise power supply systems are getting louder, with the latest being reported from Puducherry, where the Electricity Department employees and engineers have been on strike. Irate employees, who have been on strike for four days now, raised slogans against the Centre and threatened to intensify their stir if […]

New Delhi: Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Saturday. In the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’, Madhya Pradesh […]

New Delhi: A Delhi Court hearing the Northeast Delhi riots case has recently discharged five accused for the offence of setting shops on fire during the riots in February 2020 in the Karawal Nagar area. The court while discharging the accused persons, noted non-disclosure of offence in the statement and photographs of shops. However, the […]

New Delhi: Google received 37,282 complaints from Indian users in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The tech giant also removed a total of 551,659 pieces of bad content, as a result of user complaints in the country. The complaints Google received in India consisted of various categories including […]

New Delhi: Refuelling at petrol pumps in the national capital will not be possible without Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate from October 25, the AAP government said on Saturday. “In a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the government in Delhi has decided that petrol and diesel will not be provided without PUC certificate at petrol […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it banned over 23 lakh accounts in India in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users (according to third-party data) in the country, received 598 complaint reports in the month of August in India, […]

New Delhi: Former Jharkhand minister KN Tripathi’s nomination for the Congress presidential poll was rejected on Saturday, setting up a contest between party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The three had filed nominations on Friday, the last day of the process. Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, AICC Central Election Authority […]

According to police, the incident took place in the limits of Chintamani Rural Police Station.

Airtel will roll out 5G services in several cities across the country by March 2023 and across India by March 2024.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched 5G services in the country, saying it was a "historic day for 21st century India" and added that the technology will revolutionise the country's telecom sector.

The boy who had been admitted to the LNJP hospital was lying in an unconscious condition for several days and passed away this morning.

Amid drizzles, thousands of Congress workers led by their leader Rahul Gandhi, resumed the Bharat Jodo yatra which entered day two in the state on Saturday.

India reports 3,805 fresh Covid cases, 26 deaths In the last 24 hours, India reported 3,805 fresh Covid-19 cases ad 26 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

On September 30, RBI said about 35 crore cards have been tokenised and the system is ready for the new norms which will set in from October 1.

Reliance Jio will connect a teacher from a school in Mumbai with students in three different locations in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Odisha.

A fire erupted at the Global Foyer mall located on the Golf Course Road in Gurugram on Saturday, a fire official said, adding that there were no casualties.

New Delhi: In a long-range forecast of rainfall the post-monsoon season on Friday, India Meteorological Department said that normal to above normal rainfall is likely over most parts of India except some regions of Northwest India and some parts of Northeast India where below normal rainfall is likely. “The Northeast Monsoon Season (October to December […]

Patna: A doctor in Bihar’s Vaishali district, held for allegedly making liquor through medicines, escaped from the custody of the Excise Department late on Thursday night, officials said on Friday. The Excise Department conducted a raid at Subhai village under Sadar police station in the district and arrested Suresh Kumar, who had a stock of […]

Felicitating the winners of the Indian Swachhata League, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Kaushal Kishore, awarded the category of 25k - 50k population for their brilliant stint during the challenge.

The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI voted 5-1 to up the policy repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to rein in the above target inflation

Mumbai: Telecom operator Vi (Vodafone Idea) on Friday announced its partnership with gaming platform CareGame to offer 5G Cloud gaming experience to its users in India. The company said that with 5G’s low latency technology, the cloud gaming industry is expected to democratise even further. “The online gaming industry is among the fastest growing entertainment […]

A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari dismissed the plea filed by the petitioner.

The new technology will provide seamless coverage, high data rate, low latency and highly reliable communications.