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While the matter has sparked a massive political slugfest in the state, nearly 68,000 students have reportedly registered for JEE Mains while more than 55,000 students have downloaded their NEET admit cards.

The petitioner's counsel said the RP Act provides for the deferment of polls due to an extraordinary situation. To this the bench said it is for the ECI to decide and the court cannot direct the poll panel to not hold elections.

After he led the BJP to power in 2014, this was one of his government's first major projects under which bank accounts of crores of people, mostly poor, were opened. 

Hurricane Laura ripped through southwestern Louisiana on Thursday, destroying buildings in the city of Lake Charles and killing a 14yearold girl after making landfall in the early morning as one of the most powerful storms to hit the state.

The MeT Department said due to heavy rainfall over east Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha, localised flooding of roads, water logging in low lying areas and closure of underpasses mainly in urban areas is expected on August 28.

A septuagenarian woman and a 12-year-old girl were killed after a portion of the three-storey building collapsed in Nagpada area of south Mumbai.

The language row over NEET and JEE examinations had come to light after the NTA made available the JEE (Mains) paper in Gujarati late last year. Banerjee had then questioned why other regional languages, including Bangla, were not included.

Two men, aged 32 and 48, were given the first shot of the 'Covishield' vaccine, being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), at Bharti Vidyapeeth's Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday. The dose will be repeated after one month, a...

A review of what initiatives could be undertaken on PM Modi's birthday was held by BJP national president JP Nadda along with the party's general secretaries in a meeting recently.

The father of slain threeyearold Mucaad Ibrahim, the youngest victim in the New Zealand mosque shootings, told the white supremacist who gunned down his son that "true justice" awaited him in the next life and it would be more severe than prison.

Jaishankar also welcomed the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the UAE and Israel and said it has opened up "lots of opportunities" for the country as it has very good ties with the two countries.

This is the second such incident reported in the Gola police station area of the district in the past 10 days.

Suhaib Saifi was arrested in March in connection to the case of alleged murder of one Mahroof Ali who died due to gunshot injuries on his head during the riots in Dayalpur area.

Justice Vibhu Bakhru also considered that Ajay Katara, a key prosecution witness, and Nilam Katara, mother of the victim, have serious objections to Yadav being released as they fear for their safety.

The Raigad police on Wednesday arrested an RCC consultant of the building in connection with the incident. He is one of the five persons booked in the case, they said.

The victim has been identified as 29-year-old Vishwajeet was first rushed to a nearby Primary Health Centre and then to a hospital at Nautanwa where doctors declared him brought dead.