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New Delhi, Jun 5: Finance ministry has indicated that it will retain the interim budget allocations made to ministries and departments, in the final budget for the current financial year, to presented in the Lok Sabha on July 5. In run-up the Lok Sabha elections, the finance ministry came up with an interim budget in February, authorising government expenditure for a limited period. With the new

Jun 5: President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended their greetings and best wishes to Indian citizens and the Muslim community around the world on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Eid-ul-Fitr is celebrated by Muslims around the globe to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramzan. President Kovind said that the festival of Idu'l Fitr strengthens people's

New Delhi, Jun 5: Living in harmony with nature will lead to a better future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday on the World Environment Day. "Our planet and environment is something we all cherish greatly. Today on #WorldEnvironmentDay, we reiterate our commitment to ensure a cleaner planet," the prime minister tweeted. माता भूमिः पुत्रोऽहं पृथिव्याः। Our Planet and Environment is

Srinagar, Jun 5: Militants shot dead a woman and injured a man Wednesday in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. "Terrorists fired upon a man and a woman at Singoo-Narbal in Pulwama district today. While the lady succumbed to injuries, the injured man has been rushed to a hospital," a police official said. He said the deceased woman has been identified as Nigeena Bano. Further

New Delhi, Jun 5: With Jammu and Kashmir high on agenda, the Narendra Modi government is reportedly toying with the idea of conducting the stalled delimitation exercise to redraw Assembly constituencies in the troubled state to address "regional disparity and anomalies". The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) may appoint a delimitation commission to carry out the exercise and it could end up in

New Delhi, Jun 4: Former chief election commissioner T S Krishnamurthy on Tuesday pushed for public funding of elections by way of donations to a national election fund and favoured ban on corporate donations to political parties as part of electoral reforms. Krishnamurthy, who oversaw the 2004 general elections, declined to comment on a report of a think-tank that about ₹ 60,000 crore were spent

New Delhi, Jun 4: The pre-monsoon rainfall in the country was the second lowest in 65 years, private weather forecaster Skymet Weather said on Monday. The three-month pre-monsoon season — March, April and May — ended with a rainfall deficiency of 25 per cent. All the four meteorological divisions - Northwest India, Central India, East-Northeast India and South Peninsula - recorded deficit rainfall

New Delhi, Jun 4: After a 23-year-old college student was tested positive for Nipah virus in Kerala's Ernakulam, the centre has rushed a team of doctors to the state for investigation, said Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday, asserting that he is "very vigorously" following the situation. "Today morning I called a meeting at my residence with all the important officers including

United Nations, Jun 4: Taking a lead in the global fight against AIDS, India is supplying the world with two-thirds of the drugs to treat those infected with HIV, according to Indian diplomat Paulomi Tripathi. "These affordable generic medicines have helped scale up access to treatment across developing countries," Tripathi, a First Secretary in India's UN mission, told the General Assembly on

Jaipur, Jun 4: A video purportedly showing a doctor thrashing a patient admitted at state-run SMS Hospital here has gone viral on social media, following which the Rajasthan Human Rights Commission sought a report on the matter from the hospital administration by June 25. According to the hospital administration, patient Mubarik (30), hailing from Uttar Pradesh and currently residing in Chandpole