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Delhi fire: 17 foreigners among 21 killed; PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia

Delhi fire: 17 foreigners among 21 killed; PM announces Rs 2 lakh ex gratia

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A devastating fire broke out at the multi-storied Lemon Green Restaurant in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar on Wednesday morning, killing 21 people amongst whom 17 were foreign nationals according to Delhi Police. Officials said the victims include people from Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique and Bangladesh, as per IANS reports. Rescue operation completed Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) (South Delhi) Jitender Kumar confirmed that the rescue and search operation was completed at 12:12 p.m, reported the news agency. He said, “A total of 47 people were rescued, of which 21 have died, and 26 are undergoing treatment,” reported the news agency. The SDM also confirmed that emergency teams worked through the morning to evacuate people trapped inside the building. Injured include police personnel and people who jumped from height According to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, 13 injured people were brought to the hospital. Among them, three people suffered injuries after jumping from a height while trying to escape the fire. AIIMS Trauma Centre officials also confirmed that 10 of the injured are Delhi Police personnel …

Stage set for D.K. Shivakumar to take over as new CM of Karnataka

Stage set for D.K. Shivakumar to take over as new CM of Karnataka

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Banners installed on Lok Bhavan Road on the eve of the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister-designate D.K. Shivakumar, in Bengaluru on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR The stage is set for eight-time legislator and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D.K. Shivakumar to be sworn in as the 34th Chief Minister of Karnataka on Wednesday (June 3, 2026) evening at Lok Bhavan, which completes the leadership transition from outgoing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah that started last week. The list of Cabinet ministers – speculated to be between 10 and 15 – to be sworn in along with Mr. Shivakumar is expected to be released by the Congress central leadership on Wednesday. Speculation about the induction of new faces to the Cabinet along with those who had served under Mr. Siddaramaiah is also doing the rounds. The Cabinet is expected to be expanded after Rajya Sabha elections. There is no clarity on the Deputy Chief Minister posts yet, sources said. Among the Congress leaders attending the event include the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul …

CBSE ‘tender investigator’ Sarthak Sidhant’s big day in Delhi: Two meetings, and a govt action spurred by his blog

CBSE ‘tender investigator’ Sarthak Sidhant’s big day in Delhi: Two meetings, and a govt action spurred by his blog

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It was, by any measure, a remarkable day for a 17-year-old. Sarthak Sidhant began it as a student-blogger from Ranchi, Jharkhand, who had gained attention after investigating the board that administered his exams. By Tuesday night he had deposed before a parliamentary committee, watched the government move against the CBSE’s top brass, and received solidarity from the Leader of the Opposition. Sarthak Sidhant’s blog on CBSE tendering system went viral; on Tuesday he was in Delhi for some high-profile meetings. (ANI/X) That last came when Congress MP Rahul Gandhi met Sarthak Sidhant and his family members, and posted on X: “Sarthak, stay firm on your principles (‘sidhant’),” tagging it #TenderInvestigator — a nod to the teenager’s trawl through tender documents. It was the second exam whistleblower Gandhi had backed in three days, after meeting Vedant Shrivastava, who was sent the wrong answer sheet by CBSE. Meeting with Standing Committee, then action Hours earlier, the government had acted on the CBSE scandal. Board chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta were transferred amid mounting scrutiny of …

Cabinet formation for Karnataka to be finalised ahead of Shivakumar swearing-in

Cabinet formation for Karnataka to be finalised ahead of Shivakumar swearing-in

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Intense consultations over the formation of the new Karnataka cabinet continued in New Delhi on Tuesday, even as the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister-designate D.K. Shivakumar is scheduled for Wednesday evening.  According to party sources, the Congress high command is expected to finalise the list of ministers who will take oath alongside Shivakumar by Tuesday evening following a series of meetings involving senior party leaders. A meeting has been ongoing at the residence of AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, attended by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, party General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal, General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, outgoing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Chief Minister-designate D.K. Shivakumar. Sources indicated that the party leadership is keen on striking a balance between experienced leaders and fresh faces in the cabinet in an effort to strengthen governance ahead of the 2028 Karnataka Assembly elections. As part of this strategy, around eight to ten new faces are likely to be inducted into the cabinet, a move that has reportedly caused concern among several senior …

From the Urdu Press: ‘Behind Shivakumar’s elevation, Rahul Gandhi’s new politics’; ‘BJP top brass must defuse Bengal storm’ | Political Pulse News

From the Urdu Press: ‘Behind Shivakumar’s elevation, Rahul Gandhi’s new politics’; ‘BJP top brass must defuse Bengal storm’ | Political Pulse News

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From politics to education, the changing of the guard in the Congress government in Karnataka to the NEET-CBSE rows and youth protests — the Urdu dailies covered multiple grounds over the week, spotlighting the concerns and anguish of millions of young students and their families. The dailies also kept the focus on the fraught political situation in West Bengal turning more volatile in the first month of the first-ever BJP government. Referring to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar’s elevation as a successor to CM Siddaramaiah, the New Delhi edition of Inquilab, in its May 31 editorial, says the development indicated that the Congress high command was no longer in a mood to let itself be held hostage to the intra-party power struggle and factional feuds in the state. “The Congress leadership seems to have learnt an essential lesson by its failures to tackle similar tussles in some other states in the past, such as between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan, or between Bhupesh Baghel and T S Singh Deo in Chhattisgarh, …

CBSE row: Rahul Gandhi Meets students, takes dig at government | India News

CBSE row: Rahul Gandhi Meets students, takes dig at government | India News

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3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 1, 2026 03:44 AM IST LOK SABHA Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Sunday targeted the Centre over the CBSE On-Screen Marking (OSM) row, and put out a video of his interaction with a group of students, describing them as brave young Indians who asked the Modi government simple questions but received “insults instead of answers”. Asserting that the students deserved a bright future, Gandhi said: “We will make sure they get it.” Posting the video on social media, Gandhi described the interaction as a “revealing chat with my fellow ‘anti-national Soros agents’.” “Vedant and his friends are brilliant, brave young Indians who asked CBSE and the Modi government simple questions — but got insults instead of answers,” Gandhi said in his post on X, with the video of his interaction. Vedant, a Class 12 student, had alleged on social media that the answer script uploaded to him by CBSE during the verification process was not his own. He claimed the handwriting, answers, and even attempted questions did not match …

CBSE acknowledges OnMark portal vulnerabilities, deploys IIT, govt cybersecurity teams amid OSM row

CBSE acknowledges OnMark portal vulnerabilities, deploys IIT, govt cybersecurity teams amid OSM row

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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday said it has intensified efforts to secure its On-Screen Marking (OSM) evaluation system amid the ongoing controversy over the process. The board, in a post on X, said a team of cybersecurity experts from various government agencies and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) has been working over the past few days to strengthen the security of the OnMark portal, which is operated by its service provider. CBSE stated that vulnerabilities flagged in the portal have been successfully contained and that the system is being continuously monitored. The board added that further steps are being taken to identify and eliminate any remaining exploitable weaknesses, ensuring the platform’s overall security and integrity. “We have been closely monitoring the vulnerabilities in the OnMark portal of our service provider that are being flagged in the public domain. An expert team of cybersecurity professionals has been deployed over the last few days from across various arms of the government as well as the IITs to fortify these systems, including taking …

Why Siddaramaiah had to go now and why Shivakumar’s moment finally arrived | Political Pulse News

Why Siddaramaiah had to go now and why Shivakumar’s moment finally arrived | Political Pulse News

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In the last six months, Siddaramaiah, who resigned as Karnataka Chief Minister on Thursday, had said more than once that he would step down from the post if Rahul Gandhi asked him to. After all, Gandhi was one of his biggest backers in the Congress. The Leader of Opposition is known to respect his political astuteness, administrative experience, and social engineering acumen. And the CM kept his word after Gandhi asked him to make way for D K Shivakumar, a dyed-in-the-wool Congressman known for his skills at realpolitik and someone who is considered both resourceful and an adept crisis manager. Siddaramaiah perhaps did not expect Gandhi to make that move. Sources close to him say he was initially in a “state of shock”. Siddaramaiah’s age — he will be 80 by the time Karnataka goes to the Assembly polls in 2028 — and the BJP’s increasing footprint across the country were among the two major factors that influenced the party’s decision. The BJP now is the dominant force in the West, North, and East, with …

‘Denial is not answer’: Rahul Gandhi after CBSE rejects his claims on Coempt Edu Teck contract

‘Denial is not answer’: Rahul Gandhi after CBSE rejects his claims on Coempt Edu Teck contract

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The political row over the CBSE’s new digital evaluation system intensified on Wednesday after Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi reacted sharply to the board’s clarification on the ongoing On-Screen Marking (OSM) controversy. Rahul Gandhi after CBSE rejects his claims on Coempt Edu Teck contract. (@INCIndia) Hours after the Central Board of Secondary Education rejected allegations linked to the awarding of its digital evaluation contract, Gandhi accused the board and the Union government of avoiding direct answers to what he called “four simple questions”. “A denial is not an answer. Why are the Education Minister and CBSE unable to answer the four simple questions I have asked? The future of 18.5 lakh students have been put in jeopardy. They deserve the truth,” Gandhi said in a post on X. CBSE rejects allegations over contract award The CBSE issued a statement dismissing claims regarding the awarding of the contract to Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck, the company linked to the board’s digital evaluation process for the 2026 examinations. Also read | CBSE rejects …

Rahul Gandhi alleges ‘massive tampering’ in CBSE results, seeks judicial probe

Rahul Gandhi alleges ‘massive tampering’ in CBSE results, seeks judicial probe

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Gandhi questioned the awarding of contracts to COEMPT, a company he claimed was previously linked to controversies under the name Globarena. The CBSE denied any security breach, clarifying that the URL circulating online was only a testing site and not the actual evaluation portal Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link