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Director Ramin Bahrani is set to adapt the big screen adaptation of "Amnesty", another Aravind Adiga novel, for streaming platform Netflix. The project marks a reunion for Bahrani, Adiga and Netflix, after "The White Tiger", based on the Indian author's...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also expressed gratitude to the Defence Ministers from Maldives, Ukraine, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Comoros and Madagascar for participating in the event.

"Writing with Fire", an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India's only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The festival, which started f...

A bronze statue of Gandhi in the Central Park of the city of Davis in Northern California was vandalised, broken and ripped from the base by unknown miscreants last week. The city has registered a case and is investigating the incident.

State-run and aided schools have been closed since March 17 last year since the coronavirus pandemic broke out.

Japan will hold the Summer Olympics regardless of the situation with the COVID19 pandemic, Tokyo 2020 President said as the government prepared to extend a state of emergency.

Dubai will start vaccinating people with the OxfordAstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine, the state media office said on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates battles its biggest outbreak since the pandemic begun.

After video clips of Gudia describing her ordeal went viral, the Kanpur police tweeted saying the police post in-charge under whose jurisdiction the case of Gudia's missing daughter was registered has been removed.

In a circular issued by Joint Secretary in Sports Ministry, L Siddhartha Singh informed that government has decided to add the relaxation clause provision in the National Sports Code 2011.

Applauding the annual budgetary presentation by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) described it on Monday as bold and visionary, which would launch India's economy into a growth trajectory. "We appla...

Various unions of government employees and teachers had embarked on an indefinite strike in January 2019, pressing for demands, including release of 21-month salary arrears in line with the 7th Pay Commission recommendations, withdrawing the New Pension S...

Visit to Rashtrapati Bhavan, which was closed due to COVID-19 since March 13, 2020, will re-open from this Saturday i.e. February 6, 2021 for the public, it said.

This was the best Budget-day gain for the markets since 1997, analysts said. Following the extremely positive sentiment, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies rallied Rs 6,34,069.67 crore to Rs 1,92,46,713.70 crore.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday, in an exclusive interview to Network 18 editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi spoke about the government's "fine balance" carried out through the Union Budget 2021.

The union finance minister in her speech said the free cooking gas LPG scheme, Ujjwala will be extended to one crore more beneficiaries as fuel supplies were kept running without interruption during COVID-19 lockdown.

Nirmala Sitharaman, however, is not the only finance minister to have delivered long Budget speeches.