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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday ordered the banning of all schools run by banned Jamaat-e-Islami (Jel) in the union territory. The administration also asked the schools to facilitate the admission of students within a fortnight. The schools are being run in the name of Falah-e-Aam (Welfare for All), a trust set up […]

BENGALURU: The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced a hike in the monthly pensions of former cricketers (both men and women) and umpires with effect from June 1, 2022. According to the policy, all first-class cricketers who have played 25 to 49 matches till the 2003-04 season used to get […]

NEW DELHI: Even as former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday for questioning for the second successive day, former Union minister and senior party leader P Chidambaram posed four questions to the BJP. In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said, “Will the learned spokespersons of the BJP please answer […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand state government tabled the annual budget of over Rs 65,000 crore for the financial year 2022-2023 on Tuesday at Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in Dehradun. Prem Chand Agarwal, state finance minister, in his 122-minute budget speech, outlined the salient features of the budget. “The budget is all inclusive with an aim of ‘Sabka Sath […]

NEW DELHI: While we all love our summer vacation, the West Bengal government’s decision to extend the summer vacation for both primary and secondary boards evokes only mixed reactions from teachers, parents and even the students. Bengal’s School Education Department extended the summer vacation keeping in mind the heatwave condition prevailing in the state. In […]