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New Delhi, Jun 26: Amid the debate on ways to check rising pendency in courts, new data say out of the over 2.20 crore cases awaiting disposal across the country, the next date of hearing has not been fixed for over 14 per cent of them. This means that the courts have not yet decided on when these 31,45,059 cases will be taken up for the next hearing. According to the data available on the

Beijing, Jun 26: India needs over USD 1.5 trillion in investment in the next 10 years to bridge infrastructure gap as the government intends to connect seven hundred thousand villages with roads by 2019 as part of a massive modernisation plan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. "We have been able to sustain growth in the phase of global slowdown essentially on the strength of the

Srinagar, Jun 25: In the deadliest attack on security forces in recent years, eight CRPF personnel were killed and 21 others critically wounded when terrorists rained bullets on a bus carrying them at Pampore, near here, in what appeared to be a Fidayeen attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba. "First hand impression of the bodies of terrorists is that both appear to be Pakistanis, definietly from

Hyderabad, Jun 25: Noted scientist and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) member M R Srinivasan today said the Centre's push to gain Nuclear Suppliers Group membership was "unnecessary, unwarranted and ill-advised", a day after India failed in its bid to clinch membership of the 48-member club. The AEC, a body under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), would have advised the government to desist

Srinagar, Jun 25: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has won the bypoll for the Anantnag Assembly constituency. Mehbooba beat her nearest rival Hilal Ahmad Shah of the Congress by over 12,000 votes. National Conference candidate Iftikhar Misger was a distant third, polling 2,702 votes only, District Election officials said. This will be Mehbooba's fourth term in the Assembly. 57-year

Seoul, Jun 24: At the end of its two-day plenary here, the NSG today declared its "firm support" for the "full, complete and effective" implementation of the NPT as the cornerstone of the international non-proliferation regime, a clear indication that no exception will be made in the case of India. The statement by the 48-nation grouping, however, said that it will continue to have discussions on

Mumbai, Jun 24: Playing havoc, UK's vote to exit European Union knocked off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore from the investors' wealth in Indian stock markets within minutes they opened for trading this morning. The total investor wealth, measured in terms of cumulative value of all listed stocks including that of promoters, fell below Rs 98 lakh crore level early morning as reports from the UK showed

New Delhi, June 24: BJP and Congress on Thursday hit out at the AAP government for hiring a Public Relation agency to publicise its works, saying it was ‘wasting’ public money for ‘image makeover’. “Instead of Spending on Public Welfare-AAP Government spends Tax-Payers money for Professional help to build image! (sic),” Ajay Maken, president of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) tweeted. BJP

Tashkent, Jun 23: As India makes a strong bid for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Chinese President Xi Jinping and is understood to have sought China's support for it, seen as very crucial to take forward the process. The outcome of the meeting between Modi and Xi here will determine proceedings at the two-day plenary meeting of the atomic trading

New Delhi, Jun 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Tashkent where he will attend the SCO Summit and meet some world leaders like the Chinese President with whom the NSG issue will figure prominently in the talks. In the two-day summit, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will kick off the process of India's accession to the grouping as a full-fledged member along with Pakistan