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New Delhi, Sep 8 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea seeking transfer of investigation from state police to CBI into the mysterious death of a third-year student at National Law University, Jodhpur, in August 2017.A bench comp…

New Delhi, Sep 8 : Winston Churchill once defined diplomacy as “the art of telling a man to go to hell in such a way that he asks for directions to it!”Jawaharlal Nehru explained a diplomat’s job rather differently: “I want to assure you that India …

Lucknow, Sep 8 : The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) — residential schools for the under-privileged girls — are being temporarily shut by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.The government has ordered the administration to giv…

Lucknow, Sep 8 : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team probing the Unnao rape case in which former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar is an accused, has written to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary, seeking action against one IAS and two IPS offic…

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 8 : Kanpur that has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons, including the Bikru massacre of eight policemen, now has something to smile about.The industrial city has found its own ‘Spiderman’.A seven-year-old bo…

Chennai, Sep 8 : The battle against the fire on the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chartered oil tanker New Diamond off the Sri Lankan coast entered its sixth day on Tuesday.The ships and tugs of Coast Guard and the Sri Lankan Navy are battling to put …

Lucknow, Sep 8 : He fought competition, cerebral palsy, dyslexia and dysarthria to crack CAT-2019 with 92.5 per cent marks.Yash Avadesh Gandhi, 21, is now a student of IIM-Lucknow and has been attending online classes from his home in Mumbai for the …

New Delhi, Sep 8 : Close to 18 million hectares of land have already been restored in Africa as part of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative, says the first comprehensive assessment status report.The report, ‘The Great Green Wall: Implementation Sta…

New Delhi, Sep 8 : Close to 18 million hectares of land have already been restored in Africa as part of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative, says the first comprehensive assessment status report.The report, ‘The Great Green Wall: Implementation Sta…

New Delhi, Sep 8 : External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow during his 4-day visit to Russia.People familiar with developments say Jaishankar is likely to have a st…