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India has reported a 3.4% increase suicide cases in 2019, with a distraught person killing himself every four minutes in the country. Shockingly, five states -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka -- alone account for 49.5% of the suicides in the country. Altogether, 1,39,123 people, including 41,493 women and 17 transgenders, took their own lives last year compared

Mathura, Sep 2: Hours after the Allahabad High Court granted conditional bail to him, Dr Kafeel Khan was released from the Mathura jail. Dr Khan was charged under the National Security Act for his speech at the Aligarh Muslim University during a protest against the racist Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Notably, the order came days after the Supreme Court asked the High Court to decide and

Even as India has shown the sings of becoming the new global epicentre of novel coronavirus, the country’s economy has been served a knock-out punch amid the pandemic. The arbitrary and unplanned lockdown imposed by the Narendra Modi led government mainly weighed on the already-declining consumer demand and investment in the country. With the data showing contraction in India’s GDP by 23.9 per

Chennai, Sept 1: Two days after former Karnataka IPS officer K Annamalai was appointed as the vice president of the Tamil Nadu state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, a notorious gangster too was inducted into the saffron party. Gangster ‘Red Hills’ Surya on August 31 had come to join the party at an event attended by State president L. Murugan at Vandalur. However, he fled on seeing the local

New Delhi, Sept 1: Rajeev Kumar assumed charge as the Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday. He joined the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. Kumar, a Former Finance Secretary was appointed as Election Commissioner following the resignation of Ashok Lavasa. "The President is pleased to appoint Rajiv Kumar, IAS

New Delhi, Sep 1: Former President Pranab Mukherjee was cremated with full state honours at the Lodhi road electric crematorium on Tuesday afternoon. His son performed his last rites. Mukherjee's family and relatives paid their last respects clad in PPE kits while conforming to Covid-19 safeguards. An Army contingent gave a guard of honour and a gun salute to the former President. Mukherjee (84)

New Delhi, Sept 1: In view of the ongoing restrictions due to COVID-19, the mortal remains of former President Pranab Mukherjee arrived at the crematorium in a hearse van instead of the gun carriage. "Due to the requirement of following social distancing norms and other COVID-19 related protocols, the mortal remains of the former President were taken in a hearse van instead of the normal gun

New Delhi, Sept 1: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted telecom companies, including Airtel Bharti and Vodafone Idea, a period of 10 years to clear their pending adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to the Central government. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, passing the order through video conferencing, asked the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to decide on spectrum trading as

New Delhi, Sept 1: Intelligence inputs provided to the Centre have suggested that about 1,000 square kilometres of area in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is now under Chinese control. China has been amassing troops and fortifying its presence along the LAC since April-May. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed on June 15 in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh in violent clashes with

Kochi, Sept 1: Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac's description of Vamana as a "cheat" has invited the ire of the BJP with the saffron party demanding an apology from the Marxist leader for "insulting" one of the reincarnations of Lord Vishnu. BJP state president K Surendran sought an apology from Isaac for insulting the devotees of Lord Vishnu. In his tweet greeting people on Onam on Monday and