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New Delhi, Mar 31: In the wake of the CBSE mathematics paper leak, the police have interrogated more than 60 people including the admins of over 10 WhatsApp groups on which the leaked question papers were circulated. The initial investigation revealed that most of the papers were shared "out of friendship", police said. On being questioned, the students and tutors revealed that they got the papers

New Delhi, Mar 30: Students and youth leaders from the Congress on Friday, March 30, 2018, held protests in several parts of the national capital against the alleged leak of question paper for the 10th and 12th Central Board of Second Education (CBSE) examinations, accusing the board of negligence and demanding immediate action against the guilty. While some students gathered at Parliament Street

New Delhi, Mar 30: The Income Tax (IT) department on Thursday seized two bank accounts of Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for non-payment of taxes. While the former cricketer's tax dues stand at Rs. 52 lakh, payments to be made were towards dress expenses (Rs.28,38,405), tour and traveling expenses (Rs. 38,24,282), salary expense (Rs. 47,11,400) and petrol and diesel expenses (Rs. 17,80,358)

Washington, Mar 30: US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria "very soon" and lamented what he said was Washington's waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars. In a populist address to industrial workers in Ohio, Trump said US forces were close to securing all of the territory that the Daesh group once claimed. "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon

Riyadh, Mar 30: The Saudi Royal Air Defense Forces have successfully intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Iran-backed Houthi militias from inside the Yemeni territories towards the Saudi city of Jazan, Col. Turki Al-Malki, official spokesman of the Coalition Forces for Supporting the Legitimacy in Yemen said. In a statement, he said that at 21:35 on Thursday, the missile, which was coming

Bangkok, Mar 30: A fire on a double-decker bus carrying migrant workers killed 20 people early Friday a week after another high death toll showed the continuing dangers of Thailand's roads. The fire was reported to police around 1:30 a.m. in Tak province in western Thailand along the border with Myanmar. The bus was heading to a factory in an industrial zone near Bangkok. Local media said the

New Delhi, Mar 30: Any "bonhomie" between the judiciary and the government would sound the "death knell" for democracy, senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice J Chelameswar has told the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and urged him to convene a full court to deal with the alleged executive interference in the judiciary. In an unprecedented letter to the CJI, copies of which were also sent to 22

Authorities at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram were forced to suspend a nursing assistant after a video clip that showed him physically harming an elderly patient went viral on social media. The video, shot on a cell phone by an unidentified person in the orthopaedic ward at the hospital, shows nursing assistant R Sunilkumar clasping an aged man's left palm

Chennai, Mar 29: Veteran actor and Makkal Neethi Mayyam founder-president Kamal Haasan on Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) at the earliest. "My appeal to the prime minister is, please sir, you have the authority to create this CMB and you must do it. Please," Haasan said, addressing a news conference here. "The prime minister can do (it

Sydney, Mar 29: An emotional Steve Smith broke down repeatedly as he took full responsibility for the ball-tampering scandal, saying he is simply gutted right now and would regret the incident for the rest of his life. "I made a serious error of judgement and I now understand the consequences. It was a failure of my leadership. I will do everything I can to make up for my mistake and the damage it