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Amaravati: Founder Chairman of the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates will be visiting Andhra Pradesh Monday. Gates, who will be leading a delegation from the Foundation, will have a detailed discussion with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, and the Minister for...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was set to meet Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister of Norway, and hold bilateral meetings with Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, along with Minister for Trade and Industry, Cecilie Myrseth, it was announced Monday. She will also hold a...

New Delhi: Using its powers under the electoral law, the Election Commission has suspended seven officials in West Bengal with immediate effect for serious misconduct, dereliction of duty and misuse of statutory powers in connection with SIR. All the suspended officers were working as assistant...

Jaipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ajmer February 28 to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for development projects worth Rs 23,500 crore in Rajasthan, an official statement said Sunday. During the programme, appointment letters will also be distributed to 21,000 youths under a state-level...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will hold talks with his French counterpart Catherine Vautrin in Bengaluru February 17, with some key outcomes expected from the bilateral dialogue to boost defence cooperation. A defence cooperation agreement is expected to be renewed for another 10 years,...

Gandhinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Sunday rejected the Congress's claims that India's recent trade agreements with the United States and the European Union would harm farmers, saying that "the government had ensured full protection for agriculture, dairy and fisheries in every pact". In his...

Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was taken to Fortis Hospital in Mohali for a check-up Sunday, said sources. They further said he felt unwell in Sangrur, following which he was brought to Fortis Hospital in Mohali. The doctors at the hospital are still examining...

Kolkata: West Bengal government Sunday started operationalising camps to register unemployed youths to provide them with financial aid under the new 'Banglar Yuba Sathi' scheme, launched in the run-up to the assembly polls. The camps, which are functioning in all the 294 Assembly constituencies, will...

Gorakhpur: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Sunday that India stands as a global centre of goodwill and social harmony, asserting that the country's civilisational ethos is rooted in a sense of oneness and mutual belonging rather than transactional relationships. Addressing a 'Samajik Sadbhav' (social harmony)...

New Delhi: The India-UK free trade agreement, signed in July last year, is likely to be implemented in April 2026, according to an official. India and the UK, July 24, 2025, signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) under which 99 per cent of...