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NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh’s education sector has witnessed a far-reaching transformation over the past eight years, marked by expanded digital access, improved infrastructure, higher enrolment, rapid growth in skill education and structural reforms in higher education.Government data indicate that sustained policy focus since 2017 has led to measurable improvements across school, secondary, technical and university…

File photo: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta (Picture credit: ANI) Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday held a Jan Sunwai at the Chief Minister’s Jan Seva Sadan on Raj Niwas Marg, where residents from different parts of the Capital raised their complaints, concerns and suggestions directly before her.According to an official statement, the chief minister…

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday took a dig at the western hypocrisy during India’s military response under Operation Sindoor, declaring India does not need the West’s free advice. “Why don’t you look at your own region for levels of violence?” he remarked.Speaking to members of the Indian community in Luxembourg, Jaishankar…

PM Modi spoke with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, exchanging New Year greetings and discussing ways to strengthen the India-Israel strategic partnership, regional issues, and joint counterterrorism efforts. A Hindu youth, Mithun Sarkar, drowned after being chased by a mob accusing him of theft in Naogaon, amid rising communal violence ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections. Congress…

As the dust settles into 2025, Parliament carries forward unfinished business, unresolved disputes and reforms still searching for their final shape.The Winter Session restructured key pillars of governance, but several high-stakes bills were deferred, diluted or sent for further scrutiny.The Budget Session of 2026 is expected to move beyond diagnosing problems to implementing solutions —…

INDORE: A week after Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav announced 2 lakh compensation for the families of those who died in Indore’s Bhagirathpura area following a diarrhoea outbreak due to contaminated drinking water, the state govt gave away cheques on Tuesday to 18 families.Indore collector Shivam Verma, however, told TOI that while only six…

NEW DELHI: Conceding that its two-decade-long intervention to tackle air pollution in Delhi-NCR had failed to achieve desired results, Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) to identify all major sources of pollution in two weeks and suggest long-term sectoral action plans to tackle each of them in a phased…

File photo: PM Modi with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed ways to further strengthen the India-Israel strategic partnership in the coming year.In a post on X, PM Modi said he conveyed New Year greetings…

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of “surrendering” under “pressure” and contrasted his leadership with that of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.Gandhi’s remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump, speaking at the House GOP Member Retreat, claimed that PM…

NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday celebrated the Madras high court order as a “big victory” for Hindu dharma, justice for devotees and “slap for the appeasement politics” of DMK and its allies. Union minister Piyush Goyal, who is BJP’s in-charge for Tamil Nadu polls due in a few months, slammed the state govt over its…