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New Delhi: The India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement will come into force October 20, a move which will help boost bilateral trade and investments between the two countries, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Monday. The agreement, which was signed April 27, provides duty-free...

Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) Monday said it has removed Suryanarayana Doolla, Dean of Administrative Affairs, from his post, amid protests by students and Youth Congress workers over the death by suicide of a 22-year-old student. Doolla has been named in the...

Kolkata: Unidentified miscreants allegedly vandalised an office of the Mamata All India Trinamool Congress (MAITC) in the Jadavpur area of south Kolkata Sunday night, the Kolkata Police said Monday. The office door was allegedly broken, and furniture and other items were damaged Sunday night. The...

Patna: Six children drowned in a tragic incident in Bihar's Bhagalpur district Monday morning while bathing in a waterlogged agricultural field ahead of the Karma-Dharma festival, officials said. The incident occurred around 10 am Monday in the Narayanpur Bahiyar area under the Ajgaivinath Dham block...

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the US from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday. Xi is scheduled to arrive in Washington September 23 and hold summit...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday agreed to list for urgent hearing a plea by former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the Election Commission's decision to freeze the Trinamool Congress' name and party symbol amid a dispute between two rival factions of the TMC....

New York: External Affairs Minister has arrived here for the high-level United Nations General Assembly session this week with an agenda tightly packed with scores of meetings, bilateral and multilateral, with leaders of countries who are streaming here. He was received on arrival by a...

Ayodhya: The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust is set to witness a significant administrative change at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, with newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra (Retd), scheduled to assume full charge of temple operations Monday. Jeetendra Mishra will...

New Delhi: Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will visit Punjab Monday for a one-day trip, where he will participate in the BJP’s ‘Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra’ (Drug-Free Punjab Campaign). During his visit, Chouhan will pay obeisance at Takht Sri Damdama Sahib...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President, Nitin Nabin, will undertake a two-day visit to Meerut and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh starting Monday, as the party steps up its organisational preparations and reviews its poll strategy in Western Uttar Pradesh. During the visit, Nabin...