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Rajiv Ranjan Singh hailed the Bihar government’s handling of the pandemic, saying that the state has 91.7 per cent recovery rate and only 0.5 per cent fatality rate.

Finance Ministry sources said Jharkhand, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and West Bengal are yet to respond to the GST Council proposal to decide their options.

The leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) from Kerala has been attending the current Lok Sabha session and was also actively participating in discussions.

BJP leaders expressed confidence that they will get the support of over 130 members, including nine of the AIADMK and six of the YSR Congress -- both of whom are not part of the ruling alliance if a division of votes is sought on these bills.

Raising the demand in Rajya Sabha during the Zero Hour, Ahmad Patel said the Centre must increase spending to provide digital support to poor students.

Congress leader Ahmed Patel raised the issue of digital divide amid online schools during the pandemic while BSP's Rajaram raised the issue of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes in the Jammu region in the Upper House.

The figures released at 8 am showed that while 95,880 people recovered from COVID19 in a span of 24 hours, 93,337 new infections were recorded during the period. With the latest inclusions, the total number of cases mounted to 53,08,014 and the recoveries...

IAS officer S Aparna will take over after the retirement of incumbent PD Vaghela, an official statement said on Friday.

A senior police official said the journalist was found to be in possession of some defence-related classified documents.

This follows completion of the 30-day period that was given to importers and other stakeholders to familiarise themselves with new provisions.

A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde issued notices to the Centre and others seeking their responses on the plea against cruelty meted out to animals during the ART claiming it is unconstitutional.

Some former IPS officers, including former Punjab DGP Julio Riberio, have questioned the probe and accused the Delhi Police of going after one group of protestors while being lenient to others, including a few BJP leaders.

In a free trade agreement, two trading partners either significantly reduce or eliminate customs duties on maximum number of goods traded between them.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that due to sensitivity of information maintained by the companies, the reasons for relocation of operations are not explicitly spelt out.

Point-to-point rate of inflation based on the CPI-AL (Consumer Price Index-Agricultural Labourers) and CPI-RL (Consumer Price Index-Rural Labourers) was 6.39 per cent and 6.23 per cent respectively in August 2019, the labour ministry said.

The workbook in Hindi for use in classes 4 and 5 in schools of the NDMC, has images of two maps of the country, one before and the other after Independence.