Ritika Chopra

The appointments were made in August after an interim order of Punjab and Haryana High Court permitted CUH to recruit teachers, subject to the result of HRD Ministry’s Special Leave Petition (SLP) in SC.

Since June, the EC has organised and conducted three regional workshops (north, south and central India) for poll officers.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Lok Janshakti Party president and Cabinet Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said, “I don’t agree with the observation given on the creamy layer.”

The rules, under the Act, define finer details such as the procedure for appointment and removal of an institute’s chairperson and director, their powers, and the functions of the Board of Governors.

This will mean that states may be barred from taking any policy decision which may be in the nature of influencing the electorate.

The Republican Party of India (A) president said reservation provided by the Constitution to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes should be applicable at every place and sector.

BITS, which was selected along with Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Reliance Foundation’s proposed Jio Institute under the private institution category, was left out because of its standoff with UGC over the legality of its off-campus centres.

EC’s letter to Law Ministry was sent after the SC verdict of February this year on the writ petition filed by NGO Lok Prahari seeking amendments in Form 26.

The Congress approached EC last month seeking action against Shah for allegedly concealing his liabilities in his election affidavit.

According to sources, the decision to increase ambit of inspection to Rajya Sabha elections was taken at the Commission meeting on Tuesday after its expenditure division made a compelling case for the same.

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KCR is wary that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will steal the campaign narrative if state and national polls are held simultaneously.

The decision to boycott PISA was taken by the UPA government, which had blamed “out of context” questions for the poor show in 2009. The country, subsequently, chose to not participate in the 2012 and 2015 cycle.

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), in its formal response to the University Grants Commission (UGC), has called the proposition “preposterous” for ignoring the institution’s long history and unique character.

Eminence tag: Bureaucrats joining the private sector after retirement isn’t uncommon but official records show that Vinay Sheel Oberoi brought to Reliance an insider’s knowledge of the framing of the policy under which the Reliance bid was chosen for the eminence tag.

The HRD Ministry had been warned against picking a non-existent, or greenfield, institute at least a year before the Government found itself in the line of fire over its choice in the first list of six IoEs.

IN WHAT could spell trouble for IIM-Lucknow director Ajit Prasad, the government is learnt to have asked the institute’s Board of Governors (BoG) to examine complaints of administrative and financial irregularities against him. 

Law Commission report was against cap on parties’ spending; Election Commission wants government to introduce ceiling.