NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday appointed Lokhande Prashant Sitaram, a 2001-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), marking a ...

Lokhande Prashant Sitaram is a 2001-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer who was named as the new CBSE Chairman on June 2, 2026, amid the On-Screen Marking controversy. Learn more about him here. Senior IAS ...

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Lokhande Prashant Sitaram was appointed as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Ministry of Education, on Tuesday. He will replace Rahul Singh, who was shunted out ...

Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, has died aged 62 after being treated for cancer. Sir Alex, who led MI6 between 2014 and 2020, held a career in British intelligence that spanned almost three ...

After breaking his leg in a backstage skateboarding accident in April, Billy Strings returned to the stage Sunday night (May 31) at Les Claypool’s concert in Detroit. The celebrated bluegrass musician ...

For the first time, an Indian philosopher trained at IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad will speak at Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and King's College London in June 2026. The battles are the ...

SC Verdict Today Live Highlights: The Supreme Court has upheld Election Commission’s power to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. “We are equally satisfied that the object ...

Yogendra Yadav alleged that the SIR exercise became a "fait accompli" as the Election Commission of India continued rolling out successive phases during the Supreme Court hearing. He further said that ...

Following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the SIR exercise, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan alleged large-scale voter deletions and criticised the delay in judicial intervention during the ...

The Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists. The Court confirmed the Election Commission's authority under Article 324 to conduct SIR. The EC can ...

Supreme Court SIR Verdict LIVE: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 27, delivered a judgment on a bunch of petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Stay ...