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New Delhi, Feb 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held “substantive” talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to boost cooperation in key areas of security, trade and energy, after which the two sides inked nine pacts, including one on double taxation avoidance. The two leaders also deliberated on regional situations during their wide-ranging talks. “Both leaders held substantive &

Buoyed by a robust growth in services sector, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Karnataka is set to record higher growth rate of 8.5% even as the country's GDP growth is projected to decline to 6.5% in 2017-18 as compared to 7.1% in 2016-17 at constant prices (2011-12). According to the state Economic Survey for 2017-18 tabled in the legislature ahead of the Budget for 2018-19 by Chief

New Delhi, Feb 17: The CBI on Saturday arrested three persons, including former deputy manager of Punjab National Bank (PNB) Gokulnath Shetty, in connection to the Nirav Modi fraud case. SWO Manoj Kharat and authorised signatory of the Nirav Modi Group of Firms Hemant Bhat were arrested along with Shetty. All three will be produced before the CBI special court in Mumbai today. Shetty is a co

New Delhi, Feb 17: Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely on Saturday, February 17, 2018, rejoined the party months after he quit to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. Mr. Lovely, met party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence along with DelhiCongress chief Ajay Maken earlier. A key minister in the erstwhile Sheila Dikshit government in Delhi, Mr. Lovely raked up allegations of bribery in

New Delhi, Feb 17: Nirav Modi's name was, till recently, a stamp of corporate India's growing global prestige. On Hollywood red carpets, his diamonds sparkled on actors and models like Kate Winslet, Dakota Johnson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. In India, billboards in Delhi bear the image of Priyanka Chopra, also adorned with Modi's jewels. But today, the government has suspended Modi's passport

Islamabad, Feb 16: In a major policy shift, Pakistan has decided to deploy troops in Saudi Arabia under bilateral security cooperation with the kingdom which is involved in the ongoing civil war in neighbouring Yemen. The Pakistan Army announced the decision after a meeting between Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Saeed Al-Maliki, at army headquarters in

Bengaluru, Feb 16: Faced with ballooning expenditure on the one hand and sluggish economic growth on the other, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday presented the last budget of his current tenures on Friday. Personally this is Siddaramaiah’s 13th budget. Here are the key highlights from the Nava Karnataka Budget 2018: With a Budgetary Allocation of Rs 5,849 crore for the Department of

Nirav Modi's rise to fame and fortune was meteoric. The Indian billionaire left his mark almost everywhere. On Hollywood red carpets, his diamonds have sparkled on the necklines and dangled from the earlobes of actors and models like Kate Winslet, Dakota Johnson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Back in India, billboards above the traffic jams of New Delhi bear the image of Priyanka Chopra, a

New Delhi, Feb 16: He was a pupil and they examiners for the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told students across the country on Friday while stressing on the importance of confidence and concentration in dealing with exam stress. The prime minister's "Pareeksha pe charcha", ahead of the Class X and XII board examinations, was held at the Talkatora Stadium here. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO)

New Delhi, Feb 15: India will soon come out with a policy to scrap vehicles that are more than 15 years old, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. The policy aims at curbing rising vehicular pollution in the country. "We have almost finalised the scrapping policy for vehicles with NITI Aayog," the road and transport minister said. Vehicles completing 15 years or more would be scrapped, the