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India's economic growth efforts could get the tailwinds from its geopolitical position, said S&P Global Ratings in a report on the country's quest for stable and high economic growth.

The AAP government on Thursday accused the Delhi Chief Secretary for bypassing the Chief Minister and sending official files to the office of the LG, without due permission from the former.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to consider listing the plea filed by the management committee of Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi against Allahabad High Court’s ruling that the ASI can survey the mosque premises, except for 'wuzu khana'.

The 1982 batch Jharkhand cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was first appointed the Cabinet Secretary in 2019 for a term of two years. He received an extension in service in 2021.

After Monu Manesar, another name has cropped up in the Nuh-Gurugram violence case -- Bittu Bajrangi, who's videos went viral just before the VHP procession on July 31.

Three private sector satellite makers are expected to send their earth observation satellites this fiscal, according to the sectoral regulator Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe).

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has attacked the Haryana CM accusing him of not cooperating with his government when its team went to Haryana to nab the murderers of Nasir and Junaid.

The woman, a resident of Bhagor village, alleged that she was abducted from her house and confined to an isolated place for the last six months.

A 14-year-old minor girl was reportedly burnt in a coal furnace in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district, police officials said on Thursday. Possibility of gang-rape before burning the girl is not being ruled out, the officials stated.

For the first time since assuming charge as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.

The ones in West Bengal are: Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkata; and Institute of Alternative Medicine and Research, Diamond Harbour Road, Builtech inn, Thakurpurkur.

Earth observation satellites are the ones that take pictures of a specified portion of the earth and send it back for infrastructure planning, achieving sustainable goals, e-governance, weather prediction, climate monitoring, disaster preparedness & mitigation and others.

When Neeraj, 37, joined his colleagues in Haryana Police to contain the communal violence that spilled over to Gurugram from Nuh on Monday, little did he or anyone in his family anticipate that it was going to be his last day of duty in uniform.

Acclaimed Bollywood art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai, who was found hanging in a case of suspected suicide this morning, was reeling under a financial crises with accumulated debts of over Rs 250 crore and insolvency proceedings initiated against him only last week.

Actress-turned-politician and the Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday claimed that she resigned from the corporate entity that allegedly duped individuals in March 2017.

The deprived candidates on Wednesday morning protested against the multi-crore school job case in West Bengal by blocking the gates of the MLA Hostel in central Kolkata.

Sacked Congress Minister Rajendra Singh Gudha on Wednesday released three pages of the red diary here, and claimed that it mentioned the name of CM's son and RCA transactions. He also accused the government of "blackmailing" him.

The Nuh district administration on Wednesday said that a total of six people have died, 60 injured and 116 persons arrested in the wake of the violence, adding that no fresh clashes have erupted so far,

The incident took place in Singhpur village under the limits of Balia Balon police station and the victims were identified as Safad Zarin, her 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

Some of the unwell people are currently admitted in the district hospital after severe vomiting and diarrhoea. The serious patients have been shifted to hospitals in the neighboring Davanagere city.

The GST council will on Wednesday take a final call on levying 28 per cent GST on online gaming, casinos, and horse racing, amid requests from the gaming industry to revoke the decision, claiming that it will hurt the nascent sector's growth.

In a major decision, the Karnataka High Court has ruled that national security is paramount over public interest. The court quashed a tender awarded by the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) to a private company having links with a Chinese firm and declared the awarding of tender as invalid.

The youth claimed that the saint had asked him that all the shrines in Kashmir  of Sufi saints, including the most revered Hazratbal shrine, should be destroyed because Kashmiris were allegedly visiting these shrines more frequently, than going to mosques.

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee regained full senses on Tuesday evening and even insisted on withdrawal of ByPap support on which he has been kept under a hospital in south Kolkata.

All the bills were passed through voice vote and the Lower House was then adjourned for the day, amid sloganeering and display of placards by Congress-led opposition members, who stood in the Well of the House, while protesting over the Manipur issue.