The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Punjab and Haryana High Court order quashing the Haryana government's policy of granting additional marks to its residents in recruitment exams.

Around 150 government job aspirants who have cleared the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and Teacher Aptitude Test (TAT) were detained by police on Tuesday after holding a protest to demand the recruitment of government teachers. The protest took place in front of Pathikashram, where police swiftly intervened, detaining the protesters and transporting them to various locations in the city.

More than two dozen students, some of them NSUI members, were detained while protesting against irregularities in NEET-UG and cancellation of UGC-NET exams here at Jantar Mantar on Monday.

In a move to check wheat price rise and hoarding, the Centre on Monday imposed stock holding limits on traders, wholesalers, retailers and processors with immediate effect.

Australia is set to face India in their final match of the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup in St Lucia on Monday night, with star bowler Pat Cummins eyeing a unique hat-trick of hat-tricks. Cummins is heading into the match with a record of two consecutive hat-tricks in the T20 World Cup.

The Kalaburagi airport received a bomb threat via email on Monday which turned out to be a hoax after a thorough search operation, police said.

Fayaz Ansari, a makeup artist from Bijnor who accompanied former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan for the ongoing T20 World Cup, tragically drowned in a swimming pool in the West Indies on June 21. Ansari, who had been Pathan's personal makeup artist for a long time, was part of Pathan's team for the T20 World Cup, where Pathan is working as a commentator.

Pilgrims who traveled for Hajj through the Hajj Committee have alleged that they are experiencing major hardships, and that despite their appeals to authorities and representatives, they are receiving inadequate responses.