India

The yatris on Saturday left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in two escorted convoys for the Kashmir Valley. The Yatra began on July 1. This year's 45-day long annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath Cave shrine will end on August 15.

There have been 2,693 admission cancellations after the second cut-off list was announced Wednesday and there have been 580 withdrawals.

Goyal said manual cleaning of rail coaches requires a lot of water and this method will be replaced by high-speed jet sprays in order to judiciously use water.

Piyush Goyal said the Rs 50 lakh core investment mentioned by the finance minister will be needed to modernise stations and build passenger amenities.

The senior diplomat told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Bhopal that all 36 Rafale jets will be delivered to the Indian Air Force within the next two years.

The Rajasthan government has also transferred SPs of 13 districts apart from the 38 IPS officers including IGPs, DIGs.

The fine was slapped on the National Textile Corporation for redevelopment of a mill land in Mumbai's Byculla sans requisite permissions, payment of lease rent and redevelopment charges.

Presenting her maiden Budget, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Narendra Modi government's policies are centered around 'Gaon, Garib and Kisan'.

The CBI had maintained that Haren Pandya was murdered pursuant to a conspiracy to avenge the 2002 communal riots in the state by targeting right-wing leaders.

Manish Arora was travelling in the New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express and pulled the chain when he realised his mother was yet to finish her breakfast and won’t be able to alight onto the platform in time.

States like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh which have high land productivity tend to have very low irrigation water productivity, reflecting inefficient use of water and the need to change the cropping pattern.

Most of upper Assam districts, including Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, and the lower Assam district of Kamrup have been affected by the mosquito-borne disease.

The bed of the lake had dried so much that peoples even would take a walk on it to catch some cool breeze on hot summer evenings.

On Wednesday, Pakistan's counter-terrorism department said it had launched 23 cases against Saeed and 12 aides for using five trusts to collect funds and donations for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

The panchayat polls in the state, which is currently under President’s rule, were held under tight security last year in nine phases between November 17 and December 11.

In May, the CBI had said it had no objection to the application of Indrani Mukerjea, who is currently lodged in Mumbai’s Byculla Jail awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora.