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18 Jun

Aakash Live student tops West Bengal in NTSE

editor0 CommentsSikkimAakash Institute, Arnab Pati, National Talent Search Examination, West Bengal

Arnab Pati, a student of Aakash Live, has made the institute and the state proud by securing Rank 1 in the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Stage-I in West Bengal. Arnab scored an impressive 191 out of 200 marks and qualified for the next stage of the national exam. The student emerged as topper in the state and cleared the renowned national-level scholarship examination. Congratulating Arnab, Mr Aakash Chaudhry, Managing Director, Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL), said, “We are proud that our student, Arnab has secured top position in the state. It is the result of the hard work, the support…

18 Jun

Vedanta ESL’s multiple Covid initiatives

editor0 CommentsSikkimBokaro, Vedanta Care, Vedanta ESL

ESL Steel has aligned itself to enhance the health infrastructure of Jharkhand Government and help it in dealing with the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recently, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren virtually inaugurated the 100-bed Vedanta COVID Care Field Hospital. The field hospital will act as an extension of Sadar Hospital, Bokaro. ESL Steel Limited has delivered about 500 oxygen cylinders during the pandemic. Simultaneously, about 500 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen has been supplied to Jharkhand, Bihar and Punjab. In 2020, ESL distributed food, refreshments, and dry ration to more than 80,100 beneficiaries. The company has…

17 Jun

China launches its longest crewed space mission till date

editor0 CommentsSikkimChina, International, space

China has launched three astronauts into orbit to begin occupation of the country's new space station. Astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo are to spend three months aboard the Tianhe module some 380km above the Earth. It will be China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years. The crew successfully docked with the space station just over seven hours after the launch. Their Shenzhou-12 capsule took off atop its Long March 2F rocket on Thursday. Lift-off from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in the Gobi desert was at 09:22 Beijing time (01:22…

17 Jun

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways notifies common format for issuance of Pollution Control Certificate across India

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Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has issued a notification dated 14 June 2021 for a common format of the PUC (Pollution Under Control) Certificate to be issued across the country, under Central Motor Vehicle Rules 1989. The salient features of the PUCC are as under: (a) Introduction of uniform Pollution Under Control Certificate (PUC) format across the country and linking the PUC database with the National Register. (b) The concept of Rejection slip is being introduced for the first time. A common format of rejection slip is to be given to the vehicle owner in case the test result…

17 Jun

Several parts of West Bengal to receive more rainfall over the next two days

editor0 CommentsSikkimclimate, India, rainfall, Weather, West Bengal

Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal received incessant rain on Wednesday and Thursday. According to reports, Bengal will continue to receive heavy rainfall along with thunderstorms over the next two days. In Kolkata, several arterial roads and alleys were seen to be submerged in water and large parts of the city remained waterlogged throughout the day, after overnight rainfall on Wednesday. The southern parts of Kolkata received more rainfall than the north, leaving streets and alleys waterlogged in Ballygunge Circular Road, Loudon Street, Southern Avenue and places in Kasba, Behala and Tollygunge. The weather department has predicted that West…

17 Jun

Delhi Police files complaint against Swara Bhaskar, Twitter India head and many others

editor0 CommentsSikkimDELHI, ghaziabad, India, police, swara bhaskar, twitter

Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…

17 Jun

Modi calls for ‘repair and prepare’ as India emerges from pandemic

editor0 CommentsSikkimIndia, PM modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called for focus on ‘repair and prepare’ as the nation emerges out of a devastating pandemic. “Over the past year, we have witnessed a lot of disruption in different sectors. Much of it is still there. Yet, disruption does not have to mean despair,” he said at VivaTech Summit. “Instead, we must keep the focus on the twin foundations of repair and prepare,” he said referring to the need to augment healthcare infrastructure in the country as well as prop up the economy. Indian economy suffered its worst contraction in decades in the fiscal…

17 Jun

Madhya Pradesh IAS Officer Gets Notice After Chat On Corruption Leaked

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A young Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer who recently travelled to some of the state's remotest villages to dispel myths about vaccination, has now applied for inter-cadre deputation to home state Maharashtra for taking care of his ailing grandfather and widowed mother. Interestingly, while 2014 batch bureaucrat Lokesh Jangid's application to the central government via the MP chief secretary for the three years inter-cadre deputation cites pressing family reasons as the reason, his recent posts/chats in a closed private signal app messaging group of MP cadre IAS officers points towards an entirely different possibility. An IAS officer in Madhya Pradesh…

17 Jun

CBSE submits Class 12 grading-plan in SC; results by 31 July

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that for Class 12, the marks will be based on unit test/mid-term/pre-board exam and 40 per cent weightage will be given. The CBSE told the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari that about 40 per cent of the marks will be based on Class 12 pre-board exams, 30 per cent on Class 11 final exam and 30 per cent marks will be based on best-of-three Class 10 marks, The 12-member committee constituted by CBSE also told the Supreme Court that the class 12 results will…

16 Jun

Uttar Pradesh Police register case against Twitter for not following rules

editor0 CommentsSikkimcrime, India, TECHNOLOGY, twitter, Uttar Pradesh

Indian police have registered a case against Twitter and prominent journalists for allegedly trying to spark communal tensions. Police say the journalists falsely insinuated that a Muslim man was beaten by Hindu men while sharing a video of the alleged incident on Twitter. Officials added that the man was beaten up by both Hindu and Muslim men due to a dispute. Most journalists have deleted the tweets but Twitter is yet to comment. What is alleged to have happened? The video, which went viral around 7 June, shows around five men beating up an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad district…