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Under existing rules, faculty and staff can take paid study leave for up to five years to pursue higher studies and research. The policy aims to build a skilled, research-oriented academic workforce. Instead, a large number of professors appear to have misused the provision.

Nepali tour operators have complained that around 3000 tourists are stuck in Kathmandu as the Chinese Embassy is taking more than 10 days for visa verification.

The world-renowned Maha Kumbha Mela is taking place at Prayagraj, where the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers meet. The Department of Uttar Pradesh State Tourism, India, reported that over 10 million people bathed in the sacred rivers on the first day of the Kumbha Mela, held every 12 years in Pr...