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Karnataka: Cabinet expansion to take place before December

Several MLA's, especially from the Congress are lobbying for minister's post and have been demanding for the expansion to take place at the earliest.

Nov 18, 2018

Bajrang Dal women perform aarti inside Taj Mahal; video goes viral on social media [Watch]

The women were Meena Diwakar, the president of the women's wing and two other activists. They took a video of the aarti and uploaded it on social media. The Archeological Survey of India and the Central Industrial Security Force are analyzing the video.

Nov 18, 2018

India and Iran discuss trade cooperation under reimposed US sanctions

After US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal in May, the US has reimposed the stringent sanctions on Iran, including embargoes on Iran's banking and oil sectors.

Nov 18, 2018

Lalu Prasad Yadav's health deteriorates; former Bihar CM admitted at Ranchi hospital

Dr Umesh Prasad, a physician at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, is treating the former Bihar chief minister who is currently serving his sentence at jail for his role in the fodder scam.

Nov 18, 2018

Karnataka: Engineering student commits suicide by jumping from 6th floor at NIT-K

The student was constantly humiliated by a professor from the mechanical engineering department and was not allowed to write exams.

Nov 18, 2018

Flat-earthers gather for international conference even as NASA debunks their theory

Flat-earthers believe that earth is a floating flat object on space, and the giant walls in the polar regions are preventing us from falling down to the depths of space.

Nov 18, 2018

India sends an 'urgent request' to buy Seahawk helicopters from US

Defence officials have been trying to negotiate a deal from its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin for a long time but the substantial delays have marred the submarine-hunting capabilities of Indian Navy and now the deal is likely to pick up pace after the latest development..

Nov 18, 2018

IRS officer Sanjay Kumar Mishra appointed director of ED in full capacity

Mishra, a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Income Tax cadre, was appointed as the principal special director in the central probe agency on October 27 and was entrusted with the "additional" charge of ED director for three months.

Nov 18, 2018

Delhi: Woman found dead with throat slit in home; probe underway

The deceased's husband had gone out and when he returned home at around 6.30 pm, he found his wife's body on the sofa with her throat slit.

Nov 18, 2018

Has K Surendran broken custom entering Sabarimala after mother's death with clean-shaven face?

Social media users allege that K Surendran entered the temple just a month after his mother's death with a cleanly shaved face

Nov 18, 2018

Sabarimala temple: Kerala BJP calls for protests across state amid high security, tension

Main pilgrim season in Kerala's hill shrine enters the second day amid tension and high security.

Nov 18, 2018

Legislation introduced in US Congress to protect work authorisation of H-1B spouses

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa through which many Indians workers are employed in US companies. It allows the US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

Nov 17, 2018

10 lakh jobs, farmers' welfare and women safety on BJP's manifesto for Madhya Pradesh

The BJP, which has been ruling the state since 2003, is trying to retain power amid the opposition Congress's allegations of a collapse of governance and its failure to work for agriculturists.

Nov 17, 2018

Will waive off loans of all farmers in Chhattisgarh within 10 days: Rahul Gandhi

Stepping up his attack on Narendra Modi over demonetisation ahead of the second and final phase of the Chhattisgarh polls, Gandhi alleged that the PM made the honest people suffer through the 2016 exercise, but spared the rich.

Nov 17, 2018

Govt approves 1,023 fast-track courts for rape and POCSO cases under Nirbhaya fund

The department of justice proposed the idea to the committee of officers under the Nirbhaya fund which was created in 2013 under women and child development ministry and Rs 2,000 crore was credited to the fund.

Nov 17, 2018