The Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations will assess examinees in the remaining ICSE and ISC papers based on a student’s average marks in the best three papers of the exams held ti...

Jharkhand High Court denied permission for holding the annual Shravani Mela in Deoghar this year, citing the threat of the Covid-19 pandemic, but asked the state government to facilitate live str...

The undergraduate medical and engineering entrance exams have been pushed back by two months to September in view of the pandemic. Human resource development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal tweeted on Frid...

The ICSE council on Friday announced a curtailed syllabus for Classes IX to XII for academic year 2020-21, but students complained the reduction was insignificant because for the past three months the...

India’s health research agency has asked doctors in 12 hospitals to “fast-track” clinical trials on a candidate vaccine against Covid-19 with the “target” of making it av...

Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that Martyrs’ Day on July 21 wouldn’t be held in its traditional form because of Covid-19 and hence, the biggest annual event of the Trinamul Congress would ...

Sir — The incident in which a family in Uttar Pradesh cooked and consumed a large amount of cannabis leaves while believing that it was fenugreek or methi is bizarre and worrying. Some of the fa...

The Bengal BJP has decided to keep its headquarters here virtually closed for sometime after its general secretary and MP Locket Chatterjee tested positive for Covid-19. Swab samples have been collec...

The Vande Bharat Mission has entered its fourth phase from Thursday. In a tweet, the civil aviation ministry said, “Private airlines will have significant participation in Phase-4 of the Vande ...

To ensure that those who are in home quarantine stay there, frequent calls were made to their contact numbers. Around 4,000 volunteers monitored them. “Many in home quarantine said they received...