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PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon academicians, agricultural scientists and institutions to start a campaign to impart information to farmers on climate change, which is a huge challenge for agriculture. Launching 35…

RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is on a two-day tour to Surat from Tuesday. Sources in the Surat unit of RSS, however, said it was a non-political tour. Bhagwat met different people including industrialists, social workers, businessmen…

Chennai, Sep 28 (UNI) Taking into account the recommendations made by medical and educational experts, the Tamil Nadu government tonight announced that classes for Classes one to eight will resume from November one after a gap of nearly…

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh is visiting Delhi on Tuesday, amid speculations of him meeting top BJP leaders in the national capital, even as his media advisor said it was a…

New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) Kanhaiya Kumar expelled himself from the CPI, party leader D Raja said on Tuesday after the former students' leader joined the Congress, adding that he was not truthful to the party about his plans to shift. "It…

New Delhi, Sep 28 (UNI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday pushed for indigenisation in defence manufacturing, and said that India has scope to emerge as a hub for defence equipment as nations are focusing on modernising their…

Chandigarh, Sep 28 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reacted sharply to the sudden resignation of Punjab Pradesh Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu, stating that the Congress leaders were insulting Punjab and the people in their fight for…

Chandigarh, Sep 28 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia today described the resignation of Navjot Sidhu as Congress' Punjab president as “the ultimate expression of frustrations of an egoist seeing his path to…

Chandigarh, Sep 28 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Kisan Wing president Sikandar Singh Maluka on Tuesday asked state minister and Congress leader Gurpreet Singh Kangar not to tell absurd lies that four members of his family had been…

Ramanagara (Karnataka), Sep 27 (UNI) JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said the party's target is to form a government of Kannadigas, by Kannadigas and for Karnataka in 2023, like regional parties did in their respective states,…

Palakkad, Sep 27 (UNI) Three Polytechnic college students from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu were feared to have been washed away while bathing in Walayar Dam in this district on Monday. According to police, a group of five students of…

Srinagar, Sep 27 (UNI) Asserting that Mega Highway and tunnel projects will reduce the travel time from Delhi to Kashmir to 8 hours in coming years, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said this will open up new…

Lucknow, Sep 27 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday night allotted the portfolios to the new seven ministers, who were inducted in his ministry on Sunday. The announcement of the portfolios were made by the CM…

New Delhi, Sep 27 (UNI) The Delhi government has disbursed an ex-gratia sum to the kin of 6,019 individuals who died due to COVID-19 while 6,995 applications have been approved for the relief, the Department of Revenue said on Monday. "The…

The Hague (Netherlands), Sep 27 (UNI) The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday that he wants to focus his investigations in Afghanistan on the crimes allegedly committed by the Taliban and the…

New Delhi, Sep 27 (UNI) In an endeavour to create mass awareness for adoption of climate resilient technologies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate 35 crop varieties with special traits to the nation on Tuesday. The Prime will…

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Punjab’s former deputy CM, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Sunday said that all ministers of the Congress who had indulged in corruption would be taken to task if the SAD is voted to power in the 2022 elections.…

In what is being seen as a candid assessment of the challenges in India-China ties, India’s ambassador to Beijing Vikram Misri has listed “avoid shifting goalposts”, “take a one-sided view of concerns and sensitivities”, and “viewing…

The stereotype of a government office—full of archaic cabinets with dusty old files—may soon be a thing of the past. The Government of India, on directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will in October dispose of all pending public…

A fisherman from Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh died and another went missing as the cyclonic storm Gulab crossed the Bay of Bengal coast Sunday. Gulab’s landfall process started at around 6 pm on Sunday. The cyclone is likely to…