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According to the sowing data released by the ministry, wheat has been sown in 97.27 lakh hectare so far in the rabi season of 2020-21 as against 96.77 lakh hectare in the year-ago period.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also said the Indo-Pacific was an indication of a future not a throwback to the past and "only those harbouring a Cold War mindset will see such intentions".

A bench headed by Justice S K Kaul was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the agency would not take any coercive step in pursuance of the ECIR registered in ICICI BankVideocon Group loan case.

This fund with a corpus of Rs 5,000 crore was operationalised in the 2019-20 fiscal with an objective to facilitate states in availing subsidised loans for expanding coverage of micro irrigation.

All criminals, who have been to jail for crimes involving illegal firearms, will be investigated, the officer said. "Their houses will be searched. Their entire 'horoscope' will be made. Information will be collected from their parents, siblings, family,...

European companies are the leaders in corporate disclosure on greenhouse gas emissions but Asia overtook the United States to claim second place in 2019, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 of the largest companies by Arabesque.

Supply of commodities like fertilisers and coal for power plants has been hit due to the weeks-long standoff and the Railways has refused to resume goods trains, saying it would either operate both freight and passenger trains or none.

MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the visit will be as per the 1974 bilateral protocol on visit to religious shrines between India and Pakistan.

In BJP's reported claim that the development in Hyderabad (with Rs 67,000 crore as announced by TRS government) has been possible with the Centre's support, he recalled late N T Rama Rao's comments that "the Centre is a myth."

Anguished by the delay, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora wrote a letter to Pramila Devi, personally apologising on behalf of the administrative machinery.

It said there was also a need for a go ahead from the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), inclusion of patient information sheet and written consent form and registration of trial with Clinical Trials Registry-India.

With the spike in daily new COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Delhi, the spillover effect is being observed in the NCR regions within Haryana and Rajasthan where the number of COVID positive patients is on the rise, the Union Health ministry said on Thursd...

Last week, the government announced a new fiscal package amounting to around Rs 2.7 lakh crore, which included production-linked incentive scheme for manufacturing units and enhanced credit guarantee programme for small businesses.

Mobile phone sets with GPS has been recovered and are being investigated to ascertain exact location from where the terrorists came.

AIFF has indicated that Thomas Dennerby could be asked to continue as the head coach of the Indian under-17 women's team for the 2020 World Cup.

Seema Dhaka set a target of two months for herself to locate the missing children. Most of her cases involved children who had been separated from their families and disappeared years ago, with some of these cases dating as far back as 2013.