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New Delhi, Jun 20: The consistently falling male-female ratio among India’s youth, which remains hopelessly skewed as a result of preference for a male child in previous decades, could fall below 900 in the next 15 years. The recently published ‘Youth in India 2017’ report has found that the drop in sex ratio is more rapid among the youngsters than what is observed in the overall population. “A

Patna, Jun 20: Income-Tax Department has seized benami properties of Misa Bharti, her husband Shailesh Kumar and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, according to news agency. Bharti was issued two summons to appear before Delhi investigation wing of I-T dept but failed to appear. I-T dept has seized properties that were raided in May. Earlier, owing to her failure to appear before the court, the

Beijing, June 20, 2017: East Hope Group, one of China's largest private companies, will invest $300 million in setting up manufacturing units at the Mundra SEZ in partnership with Indian infrastructure giant Adani Group. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the two firms proposes to set up manufacturing units in Mundra Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Gujarat to produce solar power

New Delhi, Jun 19: A CBI team today visited Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to probe the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, a student who had gone missing from his hostel on October 16, 2016. The team is looking into allegations of a scuffle between Ahmed and ABVP students in JNU's Mahi-Mandvi hostel and the circumstances that may have led to it as well as other events that preceded his

New Delhi, Jun 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wished Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on his birthday. Gandhi turned 47 today. "Birthday greetings to the Congress Vice President, Shri Rahul Gandhi. I pray for his long and healthy life. @OfficeOfRG," Modi wrote on Twitter.

New Delhi, Jun 19: Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind has been named as NDA candidate for upcoming presidential poll due to July 17. BJP national president Amit Shah today announced his name after the key party meeting at New Delhi. The meeting attended by top leaders was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Ram Nath Kovind may file his nomination for president on June 23", Amit Shah said in the

New Delhi, Jun 18: The official launch of Goods and Services Tax will take place on the midnight of June 30, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley confirmed Sunday as the all powerful GST Council cleared all GST rules, decided the tax rates for contentious lotteries and revisited tariffs for AC hotels revising them downwards. “We don't have the luxury of time to defer implementation of GST. Council

Mumbai, Jun 18: BJP president Amit Shah today met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at the latter's residence in suburban Bandra. Shah, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, visited Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' and held a close-door meeting, which started at around 10 am and lasted for nearly 75 minutes. The meeting comes a day after the BJP chief, who is here on a three-day

New Delhi, Jun 17: The AAP crisis deepened further today with its leader Kumar Vishwas hitting out at its "palace politics", even as posters came up outside its headquarters dubbing him a "friend of the BJP" and a "traitor". Vishwas, who was recently appointed the party's Rajasthan affairs in-charge, made a pointed remark that he would ensure the workers under him adhered to the Aam Aadmi Party's

Srinagar: The militants who ambushed a police party near Achabal town in south Kashmir on Friday disfigured the faces of the six policemen, including a Station House Officer (SHO), slain in the attack before walking away with their weapons, police said. Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) has claimed responsibility for the attack in Anantnag district, that came hours after security