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Mount Maunganui, Feb 3: India today lifted a record fourth U-19 World Cup trophy after an eight-wicket rout of Australia in the final, underlining their dominant run in the tournament and giving Rahul Dravid the biggest success of his coaching career. As it has been the case throughout the tournament, India had all their bases covered with bowlers bouncing back to dismiss Australia for 216 from

New Delhi, Feb 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to provide health insurance for about half the country would require an estimated Rs 11, 000 crore in central and state funding each year, sources familiar with the matter said. The National Health Protection Scheme, which the government dubs "Modicare", was announced in Thursday's budget for 2018/19 and would provide 100 million families, or

Madurai, Feb 3: A major fire broke out inside the premises of famous Meenakshi temple here in which at least 40 shops were gutted, police said. However no one was injured, they said. Temple authorities ruled out any sabotage and said electrical short circuit in one of the shops selling pooja articles caused the fire late last night. The blaze did not cause any damage to the sculptures inside the

New Delhi, Feb 3: The CBI has arrested a commissioner of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department from Kanpur and eight others, including his staff and private officials, in connection with an bribery case. According to agency sources, Sansar Chand, a 1986-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, posted as the commissioner, two superintendents of the department, one personal staff and five private

Mount Maunganui, Feb 3: Jonathan Merlo made a solid 76 before the India's left-arm spin duo of Shiva Singh and Anukul Roy sprung into action, limiting the opposition to 216 all out in the ICC U-19 World Cup final here today. At 183 for four, Australia looked well on course to reach 250 in a high-pressure until the Indian spinners engineered the collapse with Jason Sangha-led side losing its last

New Delhi, Feb 3: Investors wealth was on Friday eroded by Rs 4.6 lakh crore amid massive selling in the stock market where the BSE benchmark index plummeted 840 points. The 30-share Sensex crashed 839.91 points, or 2.34 per cent, to end the day at 35,066.75. Following the sharp decline in stocks, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies tumbled Rs 4,58,581.38 crore to Rs 148,54,452 crore

A senior Uttar Pradesh IPS officer has stoked controversy after a video surfaced appearing to show him taking a pledge at an event for the ‘the early construction of Ram temple’ in Ayodhya. “Hum sab Ram-bhakt, aaj ke karyakram ke dauraan, yeh sankalp letey hain, ki jald se jald Ram mandir ka bhavya nirman ho (We all Ram-devotees, during this event, take the pledge to ensure the construction of Ram

New Delhi, Feb 2: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to make rape, sexual harassment, molestation gender-neutral. The lawyer, Rishi Malhotra had knocked the doors of the apex court last month seeking to declare the offences of rape, sexual assault, outraging of modesty, voyeurism and stalking in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as gender-neutral. Malhotra, in his petition filed before

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s attempt to crack a joke after he lost the top spot of the most followed actor in India on Twitter to Shah Rukh Khan, sparked a row as many Twitterati smelt a bit jealous in the Shahenshah’s dialog delivery. The fan following of Big B has quickly dropped from 33 million to 32.9 million on Twitter after the social media giant acted against fake accounts. As a result the

Hyderabad, Feb 2: Telugu Desam Party (TD P), on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over allocations for Andhra Pradesh in Union budget 2018 and hinted at taking a crucial decision soon. While the Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is expected to discuss the impact of the budget on the state's precarious financial situation at the party coordination committee meeting and then at the cabinet