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New Delhi: In a significant development before Diwali, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in a meeting Monday decided to allow withdrawal of up to 100 per cent of the ‘eligible balance’ in the PF account, including employee and employer share. The decision was taken...

New Delhi: India and Canada Monday unveiled an ambitious roadmap to boost cooperation in areas of trade, critical minerals and energy as Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as part of efforts to rebuild ties...

Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad's elder son Tej Pratap Yadav will contest the Bihar elections from Mahua as his newly-floated party, Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD), announced candidates for 21 seats Monday. Yadav, a former minister in the state government, floated the party after his father...

New Delhi: With all 20 remaining living hostages returning to Israel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday welcomed their release and said India supports US President Donald Trump's "sincere efforts" to bring peace to the region. Hamas released the hostages after two years in captivity as...

Guwahati: Three more Assamese expats, who witnessed cultural icon Zubeen Garg's dying moments in Singapore, Monday appeared before the police here in response to the second notice against them, a top official said. Within the next two days, a few more Assamese NRIs living in...

Stockholm: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Aghion from the College de France and the London School of Economics, and Howitt from Brown University. The...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar said Monday that the ties between India and Canada have been steadily progressing in the past few months, and the two nations are working to restore the mechanisms necessary to advance the partnership. In his opening remarks...

Chennai: The manufacturing licence of Tamil Nadu-based Sresan Pharmaceutical company, involved in making the adulterated cough syrup Coldrif, has been completely revoked, and the company has been ordered to shut down, the state government informed Monday. The state Drug Control Department officials had found during...

Kolkata: The Opposition BJP Monday launched a six-day sit-in at Durgapur in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district to protest the alleged gang rape of a medical student of a private college in the industrial city. The dharna was launched by the leader of the Opposition...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday ordered a CBI probe into the Karur stampede in which 41 people were killed. A bench comprising Justices J K Maheshwari and N V Anjaria appointed former apex court judge, Ajay Rastogi, as the head of the committee which...