The Delhi University has hiked fees for students enrolled in first-year undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes as well as foreign students seeking admission from the 2024-2025 academic session. The new fee structure for the academic calendar that begins in August was approved by Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh in June. According to the new fee structure, the course fee for first-year BTech students has been raised by 3.70 per cent, i.e. from Rs 2.16 lakh to Rs 2.24 lakh.
The revised NEET UG 2024 results and the toppers' list have been released by the National Testing Agency (NTA) after the Supreme Court said on Tuesday that the compensatory marks awarded to a selected group of students for a Physics question be withdrawn. The NEET UG 2024 results, released on June 4, courted controversy when 67 candidates were declared as AIR 1.
A Delhi court today extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in money laundering and corruption cases related to the alleged liquor policy scam. Special Judge Kaveri Baweja extended Kejriwal's custody in a money laundering case, being probed by the Enforcement Directorate, till July 31, while his judicial custody in a corruption case, lodged by the CBI, was extended till August 8.
The judge also extended the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha and other accused till July 31 in the money laundering case.
In a majority verdict of 8:1, the Supreme Court held that Parliament does not have the power to tax mineral rights under provisions of Constitution.
Kangana Ranaut, the BJP Lok Sabha member from Mandi, was issued a notice by the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday on a plea filed by a Kinnaur resident for setting aside her election on the grounds that his nomination papers to contest from the Lok Sabha constituency were allegedly wrongly rejected. Justice Jyotsna Rewal asked Ranaut to file a reply by August 21. Ms Ranaut had won the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, defeating her rival Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh by 74,755 votes. She had polled 5,37,002 votes against Singh's 4,62,267 votes.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he has decided that the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation.
I've decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. That's the best way to unite our nation. I there is a time and a place for long years of experience in public life, but there's also a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes, younger voices, and that time and place is now, Biden said in his Oval Office address to the nation.The much anticipated address to the nation came three days after he announced that he was withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing his deputy Kamala Harris as the nominee for the Democratic Party.
The Haryana Civil Medical Services Association has called for a shutdown of health services in government hospitals on Thursday to protest non-fulfilment of doctors' demands. The state government has urged the body to consider the impact of the strike on patients. Four HCMS Association doctors, including its president Dr Rajesh Khyalia, started an indefinite hunger strike in front of the office of the director general, Health Services, in Panchkula.
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