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court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said. The CJM has sought the probe report within a month.

CBI court in Lucknow on Friday convicted seven people in the killing of former BSP MLA Raju Pal in 2005, a case in which murdered gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad was also an accused, officials said. The proceedings against Atiq Ahmad, his brother and prime accused Khalid Azim alias Ashraf, and Gulbul alias Rafiq were abated after their death, they said. Raju Pal, a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, was gunned down on January 25, 2005, as a result of political rivalry with Atiq Ahmad's brother Ashraf, whom he had defeated in the 2004 bypoll to the Prayagraj West seat. The BSP leader had lost the election to the seat to Atiq Ahmad in 2002 but when the latter vacated it after being elected to the Lok Sabha, Pal defeated Ashraf in the bypoll.

TCS has kickstarted its fresher hiring process for IT as well as business outsourcing roles through its national tests for the engineers as well as other graduates for the batch of 2024. This comes at a time when the $250 billion IT industry, which is witnessing a slowdown in business over the about-to-end ongoing fiscal year, is expecting growth to return by the second half of FY25 starting April. Launching its annual TCS national qualifier test (NQT) exclusively for students graduating in 2024, the Tata group’s IT major has called engineers and computer graduates to apply for Ninja and Digital fresher hiring, TCS’ aptitude and coding tests. The last date for application is April 10 and tests will be conducted on April 26.

Arvind Kejriwal in the Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College sexual harassment case. He alleged that the file for the transfer of the accused principal had been held up for 45 days.

The decision by the government of Ontario will hit hardest at colleges that have been relying entirely on foreign enrollments to drive recent growth. Colleges Ontario, an industry group, said revenue losses will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars this fall. That will mean “immediate program suspensions” and a pause on capital spending, Marketa Evans, the group’s CEO, said in a statement. “No organization can absorb such losses without significant cuts to operations.”

Harvard College dropped 5% from a year ago, a symbolic blow to the school after a period of turmoil that included the resignation of its president and a defeat at the Supreme Court. The school said 54,008 students sought admission for next fall’s freshman class. That marked the second consecutive year that Harvard’s undergraduate applications declined. They’re down from 61,220 two years ago, when numbers soared during the pandemic after colleges scrapped requirements for standardized testing. By contrast, rival Yale University reported 57,465 applicants, the largest in the college’s history and 10% more from than the previous year.

death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari due to cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, claimed that his father was given poison in the food and said they would move to the judiciary. «We have full faith in it,» he added. «I was not told anything from the administration side, I came to know about it through the media… But now the whole nation knows everything… Two days ago I came to meet him, but I was not allowed… We said earlier also and even today we will say the same about the allegation of giving slow poison. On March 19, he was poisoned in the dinner. We will move to the judiciary, we have full faith in it...» Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, said. «Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, after that, they will give us the body. We will then follow with the further process (cremation)… My father alleged being given a slow poison… Around five doctors panel has been made (for carrying out the post-mortem),» Umar Ansari added.

higher studies this year are choosing colleges based on the perceived safety of the location amid a recent surge in attacks on Indian students in the US, admission consultants said. Besides institutes and courses, parents who plan to send their ward to the US are asking questions such as which states are safe and which areas have high crime rates even as admission results for the 2024 batch have started coming in from US universities, they told ET. Some parents with daughters are even having second thoughts about the US, said Adarsh Khandelwal, CEO and founder of Collegify. There is widespread concern particularly among parents of students going for undergraduate studies as many of them would be staying away from home for the first time, consultants said. Caution is in the air amid reports of violent incidents involving Indian students, including some fatal ones, in places like Chicago, Boston, and Indiana, among others.

Mukhtar Ansari in Ghazipur. Paramilitary forces have also been deployed outside Banda Medical College. According to Hindustan Times, Mukhtar Ansari's brother Afzal Ansari said Mukhtar Ansari was poisoned in jail by a substance mixed in food.

Mukhtar Ansari passed away on Thursday night. Ansari was admitted to Banda Medical College earlier today after he was found lying unconscious in his barrack. The jail officials immediately spotted him and took him to the district hospital, said a TOI report. Sources in Banda jail said that Mukhtar Ansari suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.

unemployment in India over the last couple of decades. The remarks by the former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India are about the India Employment Report 2024, published by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Institute of Human Development (IHD). Describing it as a “new worry for educated youth in India", Basu wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “Share of those with secondary & more education in total unemployed youth has jumped from 35.2% (2000) to 65.7% (2022).

Like many Americans, I love March Madness. I still consider the night of 22 March 1990, when my local college team won one of the greatest victories in NCAA basketball tournament history, one of the most exciting moments of my life. Of course, a strong emotional attachment to a particular team isn’t the only reason why people love March Madness: The money they have on the line adds an extra thrill.

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BJP candidate in Kerala's Alathur Lok Sabha constituency, Prof T N Sarasu, on Tuesday and assured her that strict action would be taken against those involved in alleged irregularities in cooperative banks in the state. Party leaders said Modi, who called Professor Sarasu, inquired about her campaign progress in the Alathur seat. The seat is reserved for the Scheduled Castes, and the candidature of Sarasu, a retired college principal, was announced on Sunday. During her conversation with the prime minister over the phone, Sarasu raised the issue of irregularities reported from certain cooperative banks in Kerala and sought his intervention to punish the guilty.

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Mukhtar Ansari Saheb was admitted to the ICU of Banda Medical College just an hour ago. His condition is very serious. Please pray for him." “Some reports are pending.

₹50 lakhs for 5 per cent equity. While interacting with the Sharks, Ha Tade revealed that he left his home 2 years back to pursue his dream. He said, “I was studying in a reputed college and we were sure that I would get the job, however, I didn't want to do a job and have been trying to make my parents understand that I want to do something innovative, but they refused.

job advertisement in China seeking cashiers aged 18 to 30 at a grocery store has ignited debate on social media about the perils of «middle-age unemployment», amid a scramble to fill jobs across age groups and energise a sluggish economy. With tens of millions of college graduates set to join the workforce in the next few years, the nation of 1.4 billion is grappling with the threat of high youth unemployment, but people over 30 also face unrelenting pressure in finding jobs.

Canadian and Ontario governments' COVID lockdown efforts and vaccination mandates on X. Her outspoken stance drew harassment from legacy media, censorship from prior Twitter management, and investigations by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), resulting in "cautions" being placed on her permanent public record. The legal battles drained Gill's life savings, leaving her with a staggering $300,000 court judgment due on Monday.

Pope Francis presided at the service, read his noon prayer and was driven around the crowd in a popemobile. However, Pope Francis, at the last minute, skipped reading his homily during the Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.

Harish Rawat on Sunday threw his weight behind Congress candidate from Haridwar Lok Sabha seat Virender Rawat saying he got the ticket not because he is his son but in recognition of his track record as a dedicated party worker. The party high command gathered a lot of information about Virender Rawat as a party worker before finalising his candidature, the Congress veteran who had himself won the Haridwar Lok Sabha seat in 2009 said. «Virender Rawat has worked continuously as a Congress worker in Uttarakhand since 1998 and has been active in Haridwar since 2009, standing with people in every village of the area through thick and thin,» Harish Rawat said in a post on X. He has been the president of Dayal Singh Degree College students' union in 1996, general secretary of Delhi NSUI, vice president of Youth Congress in Uttarakhand, and is now vice president of Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee, Harish Rawat said about his son in the post.