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Alakh Pandey, founder of the prominent EdTech firm Physics Wallah, has petitioned the Supreme Court to address the issues surrounding the NEET-UG 2024 examination. This national-level entrance test, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) and crucial for admissions into MBBS and other medical courses, has been embroiled in controversy over alleged irregularities. Mr Pandey’s petition claims the alleged arbitrary awarding of grace marks to over 1,500 candidates by the NTA. He has requested the Supreme Court to establish an expert panel to scrutinise the examination process and its results. The NEET-UG 2024, held on May 5 across 4,750 centres,…
US First Lady Jill Biden claimed President Joe Biden’s age was an asset during a visit to Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday. In her speech on the ‘Seniors for Biden’ campaign tour, Jill Biden said that the election “isn’t about age,” noting that President Biden is 81 and Donald Trump is 78, making them “essentially the same age”, CNN reported. Donald Trump has made Joe Biden’s advancing age one of his main campaign rallying points, trying to position himself as an energetic alternative to the sometimes unsteady 81-year-old Democratic incumbent. Jill Biden described the president as a “healthy, wise 81-year-old…
A selfie of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of the G7 summit has gone viral on social media. The picture, taken on Friday by Ms Meloni on the sidelines of the summit that is being held in Italy’s Apulia, showed the two leaders smiling. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NDTV (@ndtv) Even last year, the selfie of the two leaders on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai was widely shared on the internet. “Good friends at COP28. #Melodi,” Ms Meloni had captioned the post. Good…
The Modi 3.0 Cabinet has been sworn in and it is business as usual for the Prime Minister, who is currently in Italy for the G-7 summit. But many layers of the 2024 election mandate are still unravelling. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 293 seats, the Congress-led INDIA bloc bagged 232 in an unexpectedly tight election this time. The BJP was reduced to 240 seats from 303 in 2019, and the Congress almost doubled its tally from 52 to 99. The 2024 Math In 2019, the BJP had won 175 of the 190 direct…
Pakistan’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign came to a heartbreaking end on Friday after USA qualified into the Super 8s stage in their maiden appearance. Babar Azam and co, who have got two points from three matches, were hoping for Ireland’s victory over USA in their previous Group A match. However, the fate had other plans in store as the match between USA and Ireland got washed out due to heavy rain in Florida, resulting in co-hosts getting qualified for the Super 8s with five points. As Pakistan have only one game left in the Group stage, so the maximum…
Political strategist turned activist-politician Prashant Kishor on Friday charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with having “touched the feet” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure his own continuance in power. Prashant Kishor, who has been running the ‘Jan Suraaj’ campaign, was addressing a public meeting in Bhagalpur. “People ask me why I am now criticising Nitish Kumar, having worked with him in the past. He was a different man back then. His conscience had not been put up for sale,” claimed Mr Kishor, who had managed the JD(U) president’s election campaign in 2015 and formally joined the party two…
Stree 2 is set to hit the big screens in August. The makers of the film — production house Maddock Films – have shared a video on Instagram to announce the release date. The horror-comedy will be released on August 15, Independence Day. It is worth noting that Akshay Kumar’s Khel Khel Mein, and John Abraham’s Vedaa will also open to the theatres on the same day. All three films are expected to have a solid showdown at the box office. Stree 2 marks the fourth instalment of producer Dinesh Vijan’s horror-comedy universe. The first three films are Stree, Bhediya, and Munjya. The text attached to the announcement…
Amazon India finds itself under scrutiny after allegations of harsh working conditions and stringent productivity demands surfaced from workers at its warehouses in Haryana’s industrial hub of Manesar. Recently, a 24-year-old worker revealed to The Indian Express that employees in one of Amazon’s warehouses are routinely asked to pledge not to take breaks, including for water or toilet visits, until they achieve specific targets. These targets often involve unloading packages from large trucks, a physically demanding task exacerbated by the scorching temperatures of up to 50°C during the ongoing heatwave. The worker, earning a monthly salary of Rs 10,088 for…
Actress Saba Azad, who is known for Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge, Rocket Boys and Ladies Room, slammed “patriarchal mindset” for not being able to do the work she loves the most for two years – voice-overs. Recently, the actress took to the Stories section of her Instagram and shared a series of videos and pictures. The first picture is of her from a recording studio, on which she wrote: “Back in my natural habitat – recording a VO…after more than 2 yrs?”In other Instagram Stories, she shared that she has been a voice-over artist for over 15 years and called it…
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday heaped praise on Kate Middleton, Britain’s Princess of Wales, as she shared a health update on her ongoing cancer treatment. In a message, Kate said she was “making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days”. She also said she will make her first public appearance on Saturday since surgery revealed the presence of cancer in January. Responding to her on X, formerly Twitter, Sunak said the Princess of Wales’ statement will be “especially meaningful” to those fighting cancer and their families. “They will…