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The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday released the Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate (CUET-UG) results. About 20,000 students have scored 100 percentile in 30 subjects in these examinations taken for admission to undergraduate courses. According to NTA, the highest number of 100 percentilers were in English at 8,236, followed by Political Science (2,065), Business Studies (1,669), Biology (1,324) and ...

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Human-caused climate change likely increased the intense rainfall that flooded swathes of land across Pakistan, according to rapid attribution analysis by an international team of leading climate scientists as part of the World Weather Attribution group. Extreme rainfall in the region has increased 50-75 per cent and some climate models suggest this increase could be entirely ...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan signed on the hand of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 14’ contestant Anurag Kumar to avoid any kind of confusion that his twin brother Anoop might take the hotseat. On the quiz-based reality show, the 29-year-old real estate agent from Lucknow took the hotseat and his hilarious conversation with the host about his twin brother left everyone in splits. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Madhya Pradesh on 17th September. At around 10:45 AM, Prime Minister will release Cheetahs in Kuno National Park. After that, at around 12 Noon, he will participate in SHG Sammelan with women SHG members/community resource persons at Karahal, Sheopur. PM to release wild Cheetahs – which had become extinct from India – in Kuno ...

Kiev, Sep 15 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was involved in a car accident, his spokesman said on Thursday, adding that he was not seriously injured. In a brief social media post, the President’s spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said that a passenger car collided with Zelensky’s vehicle and his escort in capital Kiev. Nykyforov said that the driver of the car that ...

FBI Art Crime Team agents recently returned several pieces of historical artwork back to their rightful owners—the Italian government, with few more returnable items to follow next. Special Agent Allen Grove of the FBI Art Crime Team undertook the task of returning priceless artifacts—ones that may have been lost for as long as 100 years—back to their rightful home in ...

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has met the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in New Delhi today. Both the dignitaries have discussed the various ideas to further strengthen the close and unique India-Bhutan friendship. Shri Modi has also conveyed his appreciation for the guiding vision provided by successive Druk Gyalpos in shaping  relations between India and Bhutan.” In ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Signing of Guarantees for hosting Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 is scheduled to be held in India between 11th and 30th October 2022. The seventh edition of the biennial youth tournament will be the ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) An Air India Express flight B737 IX-442 MCT-COK (Muscat-Cochin) VT-AXZ witnessed smoke and fire in its engine number two at Muscat airport on Wednesday. The plane was carrying 145 passengers, including four infants, the officials said, adding that all of them were safe and no injuries have been reported. “A DGCA official said that during taxiing ...

Hyderabad, Sep 14 (IANS) A CBI court here on Wednesday sentenced former Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh, Kothapalli Geetha, her husband P. Ramakoteshwara Rao and two bank officials to five years imprisonment in a bank fraud case. Geetha, a former member of Lok Sabha from Araku, and others were arrested and shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. Sentencing them for ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu will represent India at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on September 19. Murmu will be visiting London from September 17 to 19 to offer condolences on behalf of the Government of India. Queen Elizabeth, the former head of state of the UK and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, ...

Ahmedabad, Sep 14 (IANS) At least six labourers were killed and one seriously injured after the lift of an under-construction building collapsed here on Wednesday. The lift crashed from the seventh floor. The under-construction highrise building, named Aspire-II was located near the Gujarat University campus. “At the time of the accident seven labourers were inside the lift, which was used to ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem about the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times, high-energy particles bombard the earth and objects outside the earth’s atmosphere with radiation that can endanger the lives of astronauts and destroy satellites’ electronic equipment. These flare-ups can even trigger showers of radiation strong enough to reach passengers in airplanes ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed former BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy to hand over the possession of his government bungalow to the estate officer within six weeks. Citing security reasons, Swamy, who was the former Union Minister, was allotted the government accomodation in the Lutyens zone by the cabinet committee on January 15, ...

In an interview at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills early this week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai retorted to a question about competition in artificial intelligence stating clearly that it’s not always the competition but lack of focus within that leads to failure. “I have always held the view that you tend to go wrong by focusing too much on ...

Air traffic in France will be severely disrupted this Friday due to a strike over wages, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has warned. French air traffic controllers are taking action to demand higher wages due to soaring inflation. The national strike will last from 6 a.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday, DGAC announced on Tuesday. In addition ...

Robotic surgeons from the US, India and Spain were named the top three winners in the KS International Robotic Surgery Innovation competition, as robotic surgery slowly becomes mainstream. The winners were selected by an international jury form Oxford and Stanford Universities, and New-Delhi based AIIMS, from the fields of urology, gynaecology, general surgery, hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, colorectal, head and neck, paediatric ...

Hyderabad, Sep 13 (IANS) Jennifer Larson is the new Consul General of the US in Hyderabad. She previously served as Deputy Principal Officer at the US Consulate General in Mumbai and as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for India. “I couldn’t be more excited to be here in Hyderabad. I’ve spent the last five years working on the US-India relationship from Mumbai ...

Belagavi (Karnataka), Sep 13 (IANS) Police in Karnataka on Tuesday arrested a man for firing at his wife after she refused to go with him from her parents’ home in Belagavi district’s Athani town. The man, identified as Shivananda of Sindhagi in Vijayapura district, was arrested following a complaint lodged by his wife who escaped unhurt in the incident. According to ...

A Canadian police officer was killed and a suspect is in custody following two daylight shootings in Toronto, local media reported. Police said on Twitter that a suspect has been located and is in police custody, reports Xinhua news agency. One person has been pronounced deceased at the scene and two others have been transported to hospital, the police said. ...