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Modi will also dedicate to the nation 17 recently developed biofortified varieties of eight crops, his office said in a statement on Wednesday.

The observation came from the court which will pass an order on October 22 on whether to transfer a criminal defamation complaint from the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) to another judge.

The paper, jointly written by former CEA Arvind Subramanian and Pennsylvania State University professor Shoumitro Chatterjee, said India is turning inward, trade restrictions are increasing, reversing a three-decade trend.

Addressing a press conference, Javadekar said the package will ensure sufficient funds under the mission to both the Union Territories.

The CPI (M) on Wednesday demanded sacking of Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari for "mocking" secularism in his letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for reopening of places of worship. Koshyari and Thackeray were on Tuesday traded barbs aft...

Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala on Wednesday attacked the BJP-JJP combine, saying people are unhappy with it and results of the next month's Baroda assembly bypolls will decide the fate of the coalition government. The BJP is running...

With 1,935 testing labs in the country including 1,112 government laboratories and 823 private laboratories, the daily testing capacity has got a substantial boost.

Two policemen were suspended for laxity on Wednesday following the alleged gangrape and suicide of a 15-year-old Dalit girl, a senior police official said. Chitrakoot Superintendent of Police (SP) Ankit Mittal said prima facie, it seemed that there was...

Thai antigovernment protesters and royalist supporters of King Maha Vajiralongkorn staged rival shows of force on either side of a Bangkok street on Wednesday with political tension growing after three months of demonstrations.

A 40-year-old woman and her daughter died after the roof of their house collapsed at Ibrahimpatnam area here on Tuesday as heavy rains lashed several parts of Telangana, leading to waterlogging on roads and inundation of some low-lying areas. The woman...

"The complaint was not upheld, as the advertisement did not violate the ASCI codes of honesty, truthfulness and decency in advertising," ASCI said in a late evening statement. The statement from the industry's self regulatory body came within hours of Tan...

The LLM student categorically denied that she had levelled any allegation against former Union minister Chinmayanand as the prosecution had charged.

Five persons including four Nigerian nationals have been arrested for allegedly duping a city-based woman of Rs 41.70 lakh after befriending her on social media, Nagpur cyber police said on Tuesday. The accused befriended Reena Samsher Singh (56), an ex...

The school purportedly blamed the child's father for defaming the organisation on social media while he claimed that he had only opposed online classes and the school forcing parents to buy uniforms and books from pre-specified shops.

The Lucknow bench has taken suo moto cognisance in the case of alleged gangrape and death of a Dalit girl in Hathras by four upper caste men.

A bid to smuggle Rs 30 lakh worth of a narcotic to Australia through courier was foiled by the Customs Department and four people, including the mastermind, arrested in this connection, officials said. Three kilos of Pseudoephedrine in powder form,...