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NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu will confer this year's National Awardsfor teachers to 46 selected awardees on September 5 to honour their unique contribution to school education. Later in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…

NAGPUR: Democracy is safe in India no matter how many assaults are made on it because the nation is governed by the rule of law and whatever is right shall prevail, Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit said Sunday while interacting…

Road construction programmes that improve access increased the probability of an institutional delivery by 11-13 percentage points in India. However, there was no evidence that increased institutional deliveries improved rates of…

NEW DELHI: As if explaining the conflicting and divergent rulings of the Supreme Court, former CJI N V Ramanaon Saturday said it would be fallacious to expect over 30 independent constitutional authorities, read judges, to always speak…

NEW DELHI: Recent amendments to rules to provide retired CJIs and judges with an attendant, chauffeur and secretarial assistant from the Supreme Courtor the concerned HCs has caused a lot of consternation among ex-CJIs, who do not…

NEW DELHI: Army chief General Manoj Pande reached Nepal on Sunday for a four-day official visit, which comes at a time the Himalayan country has suspended the recruitment of its youth by the Indian Armyunder the radical new Agnipath…

LUCKNOW: Orphaned at six and supported by fellow villagers who got him enrolled into a primary school, Ramsaran Shakyafinished his BEd and joined a private school 5km from his village. To return the favour, this teacher from Uttar…

KARIMGANJ: A gynaecologist in an Assam government hospital has been accused of performing a caesarean section procedure on a pregnant woman, three-and-a-half-months before her due date (December), and stitching the incision after…

AJMER: A 24-year-old bride in Rajasthan's Bhilwarawas allegedly forced to take an illegal virginity test on her first night in her new home, banished by her in-laws based on their primitive notions of chastity and then subjected to the…

NEW DELHI: Only 18 of the 720 eye banks account for 80% of total cornea collections in the country, according to the Eye Bank Association of India. The top performers include Ramayamma International Eye Bankin Hyderabad, Dr Agarwal's…