The Delhi University administration is making all efforts to avoid any technical glitches during the online registration process for admission to various courses in its affiliated colleges, beginning May 15. Last year, technical glitches in the online portal surfaced right from day one of the admission process. The website’s server went down and many aspirants failed to access the portal. We have opened all tabs and ensuring zero technical glitches, Officer on Special Duty (Admission) Ashutosh Bharadwaj said. ... Read More

The Supreme Court on Tuesday is likely to pronounce its verdict on the appeal filed by cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was awarded a three-year jail term by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a 1988 road rage case. Sidhu, who is the tourism minister in the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab, had allegedly hit a 65-year-old man, Gurnam Singh, on the head during an argument over the parking of a car in December 1988. Gurnam Singh died in hospital. ... Read More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi effected changes in his Council of Ministers late on Monday, giving railway minister Piyush Goyal additional, temporary, charge of the finance ministry and divesting Smriti Irani of the portfolio of information and broadcasting (I&B). Minister of state Rajyavardhan Rathore was appointed the new I&B minister. ... Read More

A day before counting of votes in the Karnataka Assembly elections, repolling is being held in three polling booths on Monday. The repolling in the polling booths was necessitated due to technical errors during polling on May 12. Voting is being held on today at polling booths number 20 and 21 in Kushtagi constituency and booth number 2 in Hebbala. A record 72.13 per cent voter turnout was recorded in Karnataka as polling was done in 222 constituencies across the state on May 12. The election in Bengaluru's Raja Rajeshwari (RR) Nagar seat was postponed to May 28 while it was countermanded in J ... Read More

Mumbai: A 32-year-old man, who was planning to assassinate some important personalities, has been arrested by Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad from the city's western suburbs, ATS officials said on Sunday. Officials said that the man, who was arrested by the anti-terror agency's Juhu unit on May 11, had been to Pakistan, via Sharjah and Dubai, for training at a camp operated by a terror outfit. ... Read More

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said he had no reason to continue on his post if he could not protect the interest of the people of the state. He was interacting with the editors of print and electronic media here last evening on the prevailing situation in the state following the recent visit of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016. ... Read More