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New Delhi, Mar 15: CBSE has denied allegations of class 12 accountancy paper leak, saying “some miscreants tried to play mischief”. In a statement, the board said all the seals had been found intact at exam centres. It is not known whether every centre in Delhi was checked. The CBSE said some 'miscreants tried to play mischief by circulating messages through WhatsApp and other social media to

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Karnataka’s capital and India’s IT capital is at rock bottom of the chart of 23 major Indian cities in terms of urban governance, according to the Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS) 2017 by the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation. The survey, released on Wednesday, evaluated quality of governance in 23 major

Gurgaon, Mar 15: Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said Indian social fabric has not been affected by the emergence of the Islamic State. "I am, however, happy that Indian social fabric has not been affected by the emergence of the Islamic State and I am sure this will not have any further impact in our country," he said. Addressing the fourth counter-terrorism conference -- 'Changing Contours of

Gurgaon, Mar 15: Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said Indian social fabric has not been affected by the emergence of the Islamic State. "I am, however, happy that Indian social fabric has not been affected by the emergence of the Islamic State and I am sure this will not have any further impact in our country," he said. Addressing the fourth counter-terrorism conference -- 'Changing Contours of

Melur (Tamil Nadu), Mar 15 : Rebel AIADMK leader, TTV Dhinakaranlaunched his political party on Thursday. His new party will be called - 'Amma Makkal Munetra Kazhagam'. At the party launch here, Dhinakaran also displayed the party flag that bore the image of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, and said, "We will win all upcoming elections from now by using latest name and party flag, we will

Mumbai, Mar 15: The Reserve Bank of India chief said on Wednesday that it had “very limited authority” over state-run banks and called for reforms to give the regulator more powers to police such lenders in the wake of a USD 2 billion fraud. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel defended the central bank’s role in the aftermath of the Punjab National Bank fraud case and hit back

Washington, Mar 15: The US on Wednesday challenged Indian export subsidy schemes at the World Trade Organisation, saying these programmes harm American workers by creating an "uneven" playing field, officials said. The US Trade Representative (USTR) argued that at least half a dozen Indian programmes provide financial benefits to Indian exporters, which allow them to sell their goods more cheaply

Lucknow, Mar 14: Buoyed by his party’s impressive victory in the Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha by-polls, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that the results of Gorakhpur and Phulpur LS seats had a ''political message'' and were indicative of what was in store for the 2019 Parliamentary elections. Akhilesh, while speaking to reporters here, thanked the BSP supremo Mayawati for

The BJP sank into silence on Wednesday as the by-poll results, especially the defeat in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, took the sheen out of its victorious run in Tripura trampling the formidable Left Front. If the north-east victories brought a new vigour to the saffron camp ahead of Karnataka polls, the BJP scoring a 'zero' in the by-polls to three Lok Sabha seats -- the

The BJP sank into silence on Wednesday as the by-poll results, especially the defeat in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, took the sheen out of its victorious run in Tripura trampling the formidable Left Front. If the north-east victories brought a new vigour to the saffron camp ahead of Karnataka polls, the BJP scoring a 'zero' in the by-polls to three Lok Sabha seats -- the