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Bengaluru, June 30: Bowing to pressure from grape growers and wineries, the Karnataka government has decided to slash hike in excise duty on fortified wine by 120 percent from July 1, a top official said on Thursday. "The state finance department will be issuing a fresh order by Friday reducing the increase in excise duty on fortified wine by 120 percent to 57 percent from 177 percent notified on

Balasore (Odisha), Jun 30: India today successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile, developed jointly with Israel, from a defence base off Odisha coast. The medium range missile (MR-SAM), a product of joint venture between India and Israel, was successfully test launched from a mobile launcher in the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur at around 08.15 hours, a DRDO official said.

Mumbai, Jun 30: Nine persons, including five children, were killed and a fireman was injured when a fire broke out at a medical store in a chawl in suburban Andheri this morning, police said. Among the five deceased children was a 3-month-old infant, they said. The fire occurred early this morning at 'Wafa' medical store located on the ground floor of a chawl in Juhi Galli on Wireless Road in

New Delhi, Jun 29: The Supreme Court today referred the plea of some celebrities, who claim to be part of the LGBT community, seeking quashing of section 377 of the IPC which criminalises homosexuality in the country, to a bench already seized of the matter. A bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and Ashok Bhushan said the matter will be listed before a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India

Mumbai, Jun 28: In yet another attack on ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni, Shiv Sena activists today tried to disrupt his press conference in South Mumbai for inviting Pakistani photo journalists to the city under a peace initiative. The incident occurred at Press Club when Sena workers barged in at the venue despite the security arrangement and raised slogans against Kulkarni and against Pakistan

New Delhi, June 28: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apparent snub, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today turned philosophical quoting Lord Krishna to say that "a small change in one parameter effects changes in all variables". "The world is in general equilibrium. A small change in one parameter effects changes in all variables. So Krishna advised: Sukh Dukhe...," Swamy said in his tweet. The

New Delhi, Jun 28: PM Narendra Modi on Monday sent a direct message of disapproval to Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy over his attacks on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and senior finance ministry officials, saying such comments were inappropriate and Rajan's patriotism was beyond doubt. In an interview to Times Now, the PM said, "Whether it is someone from my party or not, I believe that such

New Delhi, June 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today disapproved of party MP Subramanian Swamy's attacks on RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and some top finance ministry officials saying they are "inappropriate". Calling Rajan "no less patriotic", he virtually ticked off Swamy saying "if anybody considers himself above the system then it is wrong". The Prime Minister's comments assume significance

New Delhi, Jun 27: India on Monday joined an exclusive club of countries controlling exports in missile technology, just a day after decrying its exclusion from the Nuclear Supplies Group or NSG, which governs international nuclear fuel and technology. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar signed onto the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) aimed at preventing the unchecked proliferation of missiles

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 27: Kozhikode-based JDT Islam orphanage and group of institutions have come forward to bear the expenses on treatment and education of the Kerala student ragged by seniors at a nursing college at Kalaburagi, Karnataka. Three senior students of the Al-Qamar College of Nursing, also from Kerala, have been arrested for allegedly forcing the victim to drink toilet cleaner at