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The Prime Minister also inaugurated a slew of development projects and laid foundation stones of several others related to energy, connectivity, education, tourism and health sectors.

The Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting (SAFAR) has said the air quality would improve slightly "provided no additional local emissions are added on new year's eve".

Four weapons have reportedly gone missing from the guard room of Congress leader Muzaffar Parray's official residence in Jawahar Nagar area in Srinagar.

The mob included workers of Rashtriya Nishad Party, who had gathered in Ghazipur to demand reservation for the Mallah community (fishermen).

Two members of the airline crew had to hold the man and keep him seated till the flight landed.

The auction started on Friday with 160 diamonds with a total weight of 203 carats going under the hammer.

The GST Commissionerate, Hyderabad, has carried out the attachment without notice when several judicial pronouncements on the issue is in favour of the taxpayer and more so when the dispute is pending before the High Court, according to the team.

The man, hailing from Assam's Goalpara district, had come to supply bakery items along with his brother-in-law.

The mine, located on top of a hillock fully covered with trees, had got flooded when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it on December 13, trapping the 15 diggers.

This condition that requires a candidate to have passed Class X for contesting municipal elections was first introduced by the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in 2015.

This year, however, the winter is harsher in nearly three decades. On Thursday, in J&K’s summer capital, Srinagar the night temperature was recorded at minus 7.6 degrees—coldest December night in 28 years.

Another MP said that India need not go the "China way in violating human rights" in its efforts to control population, but this issue needs to be taken seriously.

The draft bill is aimed at bringing reforms in the medical education of Indian medicine sector in lines with the National Medical Commission proposed for setting up for the allopathy system of medicine.

Flights of Dutch carrier KLM, Taiwan's Eva Air and the US-based National Airlines were involved in the incident which happened on December 23.

To curb child pornography, the amendment levies heavy fine for not deleting, destroying child pornographic material. Not reporting child pornography will also invite a hefty fine, the Law Minister said.

The Gaganyaan spaceflight will carry a three-member crew for a minimum of seven days in space at a total cost of Rs 10,000 crore. Two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken as part of the programme.