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New Delhi, Aug 5: Scores of UPSC aspirants today continued their protest demanding scrapping of CSAT, a day after the government announced that English marks in the test will not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services preliminary examination. The aspirants, who had been protesting against the CSAT format in Mukherjee Nagar of north Delhi for the past 26 days, have now shifted

New Delhi, Aug 5: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today rejected BJP's charge that the party is doing a 'U-turn' on the Insurance Bill, saying that there are "no double standards" by it on the issue. "I think, there are no double standards on the Insurance Bill by the Congress," Gandhi told reporters in Parliament House. The opposition party has kept the government guessing on the crucial

New Delhi, Aug 5: There have been 30 accidents involving helicopters and other aircraft in which a total of 52 people were killed since 2011. While 11 accidents were reported in 2011, there were nine in 2012, eight in 2013 and two so far this year, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said in reply to a query in Lok Sabha, adding that there were 52 fatalities in ten of these accidents. In

New Delhi, Aug 5: Chief Justice of India R M Lodha on Monday promised to look into the complaint of a woman judge, who quit as additional district and sessions judge of Gwalior, levelling sexual harassment charges against a sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The woman judge accused the administrative judge of the HC of demanding sexual favours. She alleged that he wanted her to “dance

New Delhi, Aug 4: English marks in CSAT-II will not be included for gradation or merit and 2011 candidates may get a second chance to appear for the test next year, government announced in Lok Sabha today seeking to defuse the UPSC row that has seen the aspirants on warpath. "Government is of the opinion that in the Civil Services Preliminary examination, Paper-II, the marks of the question

New Delhi, Aug 4: India today strongly condemned the "derogatory" article against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa appearing in the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry website, as the controversy rocked Parliament with an agitated AIADMK demanding a resolution to denounce it. "The issue raised by (AIADMK leader) V Maitreyan is indeed very serious. India strongly condemns it. We will definitely

New Delhi, Aug 4: An all-party meeting today failed to hammer out a consensus over the controversial Insurance Bill which was scheduled to be taken up in Rajya Sabha. Leaders agreed to hold a fresh round of consultations in the next two days as the brief meeting in Parliament House remained inconclusive. "The meeting remained inconclusive. We have agreed to meet again in the next two days to

Mumbai, Aug 4: In a shocking revelation of sexual harassment in the higher ranks of judiciary, an additional district and sessions judge in Gwalior resigned after alleging that she was sexually harassed by a High Court judge in the Madhya Pradesh high court. Reportedly, the woman judge, who resigned on July 15, had alleged sexual harassment by a High Court judge in her complaint, saying that after

Patna, Aug 4: Over 75,000 people were evacuated on Sunday after a drastic rise in the water level of Kosi river in Bihar spread panic among people living along the Indo-Nepal border, who feared a repeat of the 2008 flood that killed 237 and displaced lakhs. A major catastrophe was averted on Sunday, although temporarily, as Nepal warned before releasing a large amount of water into the Kosi river

Kathmandu, Aug 3: Assuring Nepal that India did not want to interfere in its internal affairs, Narendra Modi, the first Indian Premier to visit the Himalayan nation in 17 years, today emphasised that their border should be a "bridge" and not a barrier even as he announced USD 1 billion Line Of Credit to this country. As India makes efforts to deepen its diplomatic and economic engagement with its