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The 43-year-old, who was President Barack Obama's youngest surgeon general in 2014, is originally from Hallegere village in Maddur Taluk of Mandya district in Karnataka. He visits the village every year and has donated millions of dollars to promote educa...

The Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', said the BJP was, however, quick to pounce on and 'communalise' the killing of two sadhus by a mob in Palghar district of Maharashtra in April this year.

Addressing a virtual event organised by industry body FICCI, Kumar also highlighted the government's efforts to push electric mobility or e-mobility in the country.

The plea, filed through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, said the best solution to weed corruption and criminalisation in politics is to replace political party symbols on ballot and EVM with name, age, educational qualification and photograph of the candida...

Stressing that next week will certainly be a test for Facebook, Zuckerberg said election integrity is and will be an ongoing challenge even after November 3.

India saw a daily spurt of 48,648 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 8.09 million, health ministry data showed on Friday.

In Mumbai, gold prices are the same as the national average. 22-carat gold stands at Rs 49,680 per 10 grams and 24-carat gold is at Rs 50,680 per 10 grams.

In the 2015 assembly elections, the turnout was 54.94 per cent in the corresponding constituencies. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls — with the same assembly seats mapped to parliamentary seats — the turnout was 53.54 per cent.

Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that as part of such efforts, India organised two training modules for its neighbouring countries in which about 90 health experts and scientists participated.

Scientists say the result has been promising with the stubble in a higher state of decomposition 15 days later compared to the stubble in fields where the bio-decomposer was not used.

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The court was hearing final arguments on a bunch of public interest litigations seeking that the media trial in the probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death be stopped.

The state government had suspended Sharma from the post of special director general on September 29 following his viral video, in which he was seen beating his wife after she confronted him at the house of a news anchor with a regional channel.

Counting of votes will happen on November 10. Voting in 17 districts will take place in second phase, while in 15 districts it will take place during the third phase of voting in Bihar Elections 2020.

Netflix crime drama "Narcos: Mexico" is coming back for a third season, but it will return without series lead Diego Luna, who portrayed Mexican drug cartel leader Felix Gallardo. In addition, series showrunner Eric Newman will exit after five seasons...

The talks were led by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar from the Indian side and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper from the US side.