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New Delhi, Jan 11: Industrial output growth dropped to a 17-month low of 0.5% in November last on account of contraction in the manufacturing sector, particularly consumer and capital goods. Factory output, as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had grown by 8.5% in November 2017, as per data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on January 11. The previous low

New Delhi, Jan 11: Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul were Friday suspended pending an inquiry into their outrage-evoking comments on women during a TV show, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) chairman Vinod Rai told PTI. The cricketers, who have been in the eye of a storm following their sexist remarks on 'Koffee with Karan', will be returning from Australia where they were to

Alappad, Jan 11: Abandoned homes, deserted school, heaps of sand, a lone temple and dried up mangroves. These are the remnants of a once green Ponmana village under the coastal Alappad panchayat in Kollam district in southern Kerala where locals are up in arms against beach sand mining, blaming it for sea erosion eating up their lands. They claim hamlet after hamlet was 'disappearing' from the map

Ramgarh, Jan 11: A shocking dereliction of duty has come to light from a hospital in Ramgarh district of Rajasthan. A male nurse working at a government medical centre has 'decapitated a baby while pulling too hard during a difficult birth'. The mother is said to be battling for her life after the unfortunate incident. During the time of the delivery, the nurse pulled the foetus so carelessly that

Shillong, Jan 11: Multi-agencies personnel used high-powered pumps to drain out 28 lakh litres of water from the main shaft, where 15 miners got trapped, but Navy divers Thursday found no change in the water level in the rat-hole mine to resume search operation, officials said. Rescuers using pumps from Coal India Ltd, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd and the Odisha Fire Service have managed to pump out 2.1

Dubai, Jan 10: India’s Congress party president Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Dubai for a much-anticipated visit to the UAE that will see him address Indian expatriates at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on January 11. An enthusiastic crowd awaits outside the Dubai airport to welcome Congress President @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiInUAE pic.twitter.com/q36Ob8YxDh — Congress (@INCIndia) January 10

Dubai, Jan 10: India’s Congress party president Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Dubai for a much-anticipated visit to the UAE that will see him address Indian expatriates at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on January 11. An enthusiastic crowd awaits outside the Dubai airport to welcome Congress President @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiInUAE pic.twitter.com/q36Ob8YxDh — Congress (@INCIndia) January 10

New Delhi, Jan 10: Alok Verma was shunted out as the CBI chief after a marathon meeting of high-powered selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday, officials said. Verma, a 1979-batch AGMUT cadre IPS officer, has been removed from the high-profile post on the charges of corruption and dereliction of duty making him the first chief in the history of the agency to face such

Chennai, Jan 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday the BJP is open to alliances and cherished its old friends, in a hint that it was looking to strengthen the NDA in Tamil Nadu ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2019. In an interaction with party booth-level workers from five districts in Tamil Nadu through video conferencing, he recalled the "successful coalition politics" ushered in by

New Delhi, Jan 10: Indian Army is a conservative organisation that doesn't welcome adultery and the LGBT community, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat said here on Thursday. Gen Rawat's comments come months after two historic verdicts from the Supreme Court that decriminalised homosexuality and ruled that what was happening between two adult individuals in their bedroom was not a matter for the State to