New Delhi: Soon after the government shunted out two top CBSE officials following the online marking row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday termed it a "cover up" exercise saying while officials have been removed the education minister has been spared. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha demanded that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan should be dismissed and...

California: Hackers have reportedly manipulated Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to gain control of several prominent Instagram accounts, according to cybersecurity researchers. Among the accounts said to have been compromised in recent days are a former White House Instagram account from the Obama administration, which still has more than 2.4 million followers, the account of the Chief Master...

New Delhi: Sonam Wangchuk Tuesday expressed support for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) campaign demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and said he would join the group's planned protest in Delhi June 6 if the minister does not step down by then. In a video message, Wangchuk said he had initially sought assurances that...

Surat: At least seven persons were killed, and around 40 were injured after two buses operated by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) collided near Bardoli town in Gujarat's Surat district Tuesday, and one of them caught fire, police said. The incident occurred on National Highway No. 53 near Uva village, officials said, adding that the...

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrats Lokhande Prashant Sitaram and Varun Bhardwaj were Tuesday appointed as the CBSE's new chairperson and secretary, after the incumbents were shunted out amid the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system row. Sitaram, a 2001 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram, and Union Territories or AGMUT cadre, is currently an...

Bhubaneswar/Dhenkanal: Forest department suspended a forester, a day after exhumation of the carcass of a wild elephant from a farm in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, officials said Tuesday. A 'makhana' (a male elephant without tusk) was allegedly electrocuted to death, and its body was secretly buried in the mango orchard under Hindol range in Dhenkanal district, they said....

Kolkata: The police Tuesday issued a summons to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas, asking him to appear before its officer over last year's "Messi fiasco" at the Salt Lake stadium. He was summoned days after Argentine footballer Lionel Messi's India Tour organiser Satadru Dutta, who had been arrested in connection with the incident during the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida Tuesday announced an increase in cost for nutritional support for severely underweight children from Rs 14 to Rs 18 per day. Parida, who heads the Women and Child Development Department, also announced an enhancement in breakfast allocations for Anganwadi pre-school children. The daily cost of supplementary nutrition provided to severely...

Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut Tuesday weighed in on the controversy surrounding Ranveer Singh's exit from Don 3 and his subsequent boycott by a workers' body, saying such "obstacles" are part and parcel of growth in the film industry. The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) last month issued a non-cooperation directive against Singh, following his exit...

Not very long ago, most people checked their credit scores only after something went wrong. Usually after: a rejected loan application a delayed approval a sudden banking issue For many young borrowers, credit reports felt like technical financial documents that only banks cared about. That mindset is changing quietly across India. Today, salaried professionals in their twenties...