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New Delhi: The next round of talks for the ongoing review meeting of the India-Asean free trade agreement in goods will be held in November, an official statement said Saturday. The third round of the negotiations was concluded August 1 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Eight sub-committees...

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration Saturday sacked six government employees, including five policemen, for their "deep involvement in anti-national activities", officials said. J-K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha invoked article 311(2)(c) of the Constitution to terminate them from service, they said. Under proviso 'c' of...

Wayanad: Well-known actor Mohanlal, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Territorial Army, Saturday reached landslide-hit Wayanad, donning his army uniform and pledged Rs three crore for the rehabilitation works of the disaster-hit region. The actor, who reached the Army camp at Meppadi,...

Imphal: Shots were fired and an abandoned house was torched in Manipur's Jiribam, triggering fresh tensions within a day of the Meitei and Hmar communities reaching an agreement to make efforts to restore normalcy in the district, officials said Saturday. An abandoned house in Lalpani...

New Delhi: About 12,121 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres (AHWCs), now renamed as Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (Ayush), under Ayushman Bharat are functional in the country, with the highest in Rajasthan, Minister of State for Ayush, Prataprao Jadhav, informed the Parliament. This is from a total...

Wayanad: As rescue operations entered the fifth day Saturday, the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 344 with 206 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods at Wayanad. The over 1,500-strong rescue team comprising personnel from all the Defence forces, NDRF, SDRF,...

New Delhi: The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has approved the detailed project report of two hydro-pumped storage plants (HPSPs) – 600MW Upper Indravati in Odisha’s Kalahandi district and 2,000MW Sharavathy in Karnataka – in record time, the Ministry of Power said Friday. To fast-track the...

New Delhi: As many as 42,82,945 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) job cards from Odisha were among the 4,43,04,661 that have been deleted since 2019-20 fiscal, Union Minister of State for Rural Development Kamlesh Paswan told the Rajya Sabha, Friday. “Verification of...

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Friday submitted a notice to move a privilege motion against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, alleging that he "misled" the Rajya Sabha by his emphatic statements on early warnings issued by the Centre to the Kerala government ahead of...

Shimla: Rescuers deployed drones in a massive effort to trace about 45 people still missing in flash floods in three Himachal Pradesh districts as the death toll rose to eight, officials said Friday. Two bodies were found in Mandi's Rajban village and one from Kullu's...