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New Delhi: A bill to set up a higher education regulator, which will replace bodies such as the UGC and AICTE was approved by the Union Cabinet Friday, officials said. The proposed legislation, which was earlier christened the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill...

New Delhi: Union Cabinet Friday approved Rs 11,718 crore for conducting the Census of India, 2027, which would include the caste enumeration for the first time. Addressing a briefing, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved...

Mumbai: IndiGo's board Friday announced the appointment of an external aviation expert to carry out a root-cause analysis of recent flight disruptions. "Chief Aviation Advisors LLC, led by Captain John Illson, veteran aviation expert, to conduct an independent expert review and assessment of the recent...

New Delhi: India's imports of Russian crude oil rose 4 per cent in November to a five-month high of Euro 2.6 billion, with a large part of the refined fuels produced from it being exported to Australia, a European think tank said. India remained the...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday asked social media intermediaries to treat a suit filed by former Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar seeking protection of his personality and publicity rights as a formal complaint, and to decide on it within a week under the...

New Delhi: Low-cost airline IndiGo, under intense government scrutiny after days of disruption that disrupted domestic air travel, has received a tax penalty notice of Rs 58.75 crore for the 2020-21 financial year by the additional commissioner of CGST, Delhi South Commissionerate, the airline said...

Guwahati: Shyamkanu Mahanta and Siddhartha Sharma were among the four accused charged with murder in the chargesheet filed Friday by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the death of singer Zubeen Garg. The accused also include Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta. Shyamkanu Mahanta...

Panaji: A man, who claims to be the original owner of the land on which fire-ravaged ‘Birch by Romeo Lane' stood, has alleged that a portion of his property was converted from a salt pan to a settlement zone without his knowledge, to benefit the...

Mumbai: Aviation safety regulator DGCA has suspended four Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs) over massive disruptions in IndiGo's operations, which resulted in the cancellation of thousands of flights and lakhs of people getting stranded across airports. The airline cancelled over 50 flights from Bengaluru Airport Friday....

Visakhapatnam: Nine pilgrims died, and 23 others were injured when a private travel bus fell into a gorge in Alluri Sitharamaraju district in the early hours of Friday. The accident occurred on the Chintur-Naredumilli ghat road when the driver apparently failed to negotiate a sharp...