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Who is Deepti Gaur Mukerjee? All to know about the newly-appointed Higher Education Secretary replacing Vineet Joshi

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Deepti Gaur Mukerjee, senior bureaucrat and 1993-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, was appointed as Higher Education Secretary. A n... Read More


West Bengal SIR: Supreme Court asks ECI for data on appeals against electoral roll deletions

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to place on record details of appeals disposed of by tribunals hearing challenges to deletion of name... Read More


CM Dhami says women's empowerment key to Uttarakhand's development

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday said women's empowerment was central to the state's development and that the government was working to provide women grea... Read More


Colombia earthquake: 224 dead, 3,000+ missing, 1,600 buildings damaged; US and EU send aid - latest updates

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Search-and-rescue operations entered a second day in western Colombia on Tuesday as crews raced to find survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings following a powerful 7.4-mag... Read More


AAP leaders cycle to Delhi Assembly, allege irregularities in purchase of bicycles for schoolgirls

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- AAP leaders and MLAs rode bicycles to the Delhi Assembly on Monday to protest the purchase of bicycles being distributed to schoolgirls under the Delhi government's Vidya Vahini ... Read More


Net direct tax collections jump 23% to Rs.8.11 trillion by 10 August

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- India's net direct tax collections rose 23.09% year-on-year to Rs.8.11 trillion between 1 April and 10 August, from Rs.6.59 trillion in the corresponding period a year earlier, p... Read More


Lower or nil TDS certificate: Govt plans online application route to reduce compliance burden

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Are you a taxpayer expecting your final tax liability to be lower than the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)? Then you may soon have an easier way to seek relief. The Income Tax Depar... Read More


Rajya Sabha passes Tribunals Reforms Bill

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Tribunals Reform Bill, 2026, which proposes a new body to oversee India's sectoral quasi-judicial forums. Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal int... Read More


Trump hid in catering cart, left Turkey on a secret military flight amid assassination threat from Iran: Report

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- In a rare, clandestine mission, US President Donald Trump, who was in Turkiye last month to attend a NATO summit, reportedly departed the country on a secret military flight afte... Read More


'House of the Dragon' season 3 finale: Is Prince Daeron Targaryen dead or alive? Here's what we know

New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- House of the Dragon's Season 3 finale knocked several key characters off the board, including Lord Ormund Hightower (James Norton). However, one Team Green member's fate is still... Read More