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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, a severe and progressive lung condition that causes breathlessness and predisposes to exacerbations and serious illness, is the second-biggest cause of death in India today.

Justice Lokur asked if Indian citizens can continue to have any confidence and trust in a judiciary that 'tends to bend, but not yet crawl?'

While in some municipal corporations, the Congress and the NCP may gain an upper-hand with the Sena's support, in others the BJP enjoys a clear majority.

Rajnath Singh, who arrived in Singapore on a two-day visit, said that he was deeply humbled by the undying spirit of valour and sacrifice of these brave men and women.

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told Lok Sabha that no formal recommendation for giving Bharat Ratna is necessary.

Family members of the deceased claimed that the soybean crop sown by him on four acres got destroyed in unseasonal rains in the region. They claimed that the family fell on hard times due to the crop loss.

The JNU claimed that the students had grossly violated the August 9, 2017, order of the high court by holding a protest within 100 metres of the administrative block and affecting its day-to-day working.

There were no immediate reports of loss of life or property.

Police filed two FIRs against the protesting JNU students, charging them for rioting and destroying public property.

The minister of state for environment said that the rate of increase of sea level due to climate change cannot be attributed with certainty.

Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India in 1966. When freedom calls were resonating in 1971 in then East Pakistan, India under the leadership of Indira Gandhi intervened in the conflict to liberate Bangladesh.

JNUSU vice-president Saket Moon said they met GC Hosur, the joint secretary of HRD Ministry, and submitted a memorandum of demands to him.

The report states that 18% of all international students in the US were Indians. The number of graduate students from India was second only to the Chinese at over 90,000 students enrolled.

The assembly secretariat had recently approved the construction of a new MLA rest house for the lawmakers, which is expected to come up on the Arera Hills adjoining the Madhya Pradesh Assembly complex.

Congress legislator Tanveer Sait is out of danger and is recovering from a surgery at a private hospital in Bengaluru.

In a notification, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the HNLC along with all its factions, wings and frontal organisations has been openly declaring as its objective the secession of the state's areas.