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Chennai: The IIA has stepped in to rain on the celestial parade promised by viral social media posts, debunking claims of a rare planetary alignment February 28 as “highly exaggerated and misleading”. While internet trends suggest a grand spectacle where all planets in the solar...

Kolkata: The final voters’ list in West Bengal is all set to be published today, with voters' names classified under three broad categories: “Approved”, “under adjudication”, and “deleted”. The “approved” category will include the names of individuals who have been classified as genuine voters. The...

New Delhi/Chandipur: The Defence Ministry Friday said three flight trials of a very short-range air defence missile system were conducted successfully from Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. It said the trials were carried out to revalidate the capability of the VSHORADS (Very ShortRange Air...

New Delhi: NCERT Friday issued an advisory asking anyone with copies of the banned Class-VIII textbook that had a chapter on "judicial corruption" be returned to the council headquarters. In a strongly worded advisory, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) also called...

Mumbai: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Mumbai Friday at the start of a four-day India visit. He will meet business leaders in Mumbai. Carney will fly to New Delhi March 1 and meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi there March 2, as per the...

New Delhi: The economic growth projection for the next fiscal is revised upwards by 20 basis points to 7-7.4 per cent following the release of new GDP series, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said Friday. The Economic Survey presented in Parliament in January had...

New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleging that they hatched a conspiracy to finish the Aam Aadmi Party through a "fake" excise policy case. Earlier in the day, a...

Kochi: In a dramatic turn within 24 hours of a judicial setback, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court Friday lifted the interim stay on the release of The Kerala Story 2 – Goes Beyond, paving the way for the film’s screening. The Division...

New Delhi: India's GDP growth estimate has been raised to 7.6 per cent for the current fiscal from 7.4 per cent after the government revised the calculation methodology, including change in base year and adding data from GST and e-Vahan portal, to better reflect economic...

New Delhi: A class VIII NCERT textbook, which carried a chapter about 'judicial corruption', is at the centre of controversy with the Supreme Court imposing a "complete blanket ban" on the book, saying it contains "offensive" contents. Here is an explainer on how the NCERT...