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Kochi, Aug 31: Sarah Jacob Cohen, the oldest member of Kerala's tiny Jewish community, passed away at her residence at Mattancherry jew town here. She was also one of the last remaining Jewish persons living in Mattancherry, The News Minute reported. She died on Friday. Cohen was 96, her caretaker said. She would be laid to rest on Sunday at the cemetery attached to ancient synagogue in

Guwahati, Aug 31: The much-awaited updated Final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was released on Saturday, excluding names of 19.07 lakh applicants, NRC State Coordinator's office said here. Names of 3.11 crore applicants were included in the final NRC, it said in a statement. The status of both inclusion and exclusion can be viewed online in the NRC website, www.nrcassam.nic.in. The

Mumbai, Aug 30: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Thursday that the overall economic outlook of the country appeared clouded for 2019-20 and advised to prioritise the revival of consumption and private investment and structural reforms. "Overall, the outlook appears clouded as the Indian economy begins its course through 2019-20," the RBI said in its annual report released on Thursday. The

New Delhi, Aug 30: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Friday clarified that no order has been issued regarding extension of filing IT returns and advised people to file returns by August 31. In a clarification on its Twitter handle, Income Tax Department said an order is being circulated on the social media pertaining to the purported extension of the due date for filing of IT Returns.

New Delhi, Aug 30: The Congress on Friday accused the BJP government of forcefully taking Rs 1,76 lakh crore from the RBI to hide a "grave" economic slowdown and claimed that it had pushed the country into a "financial emergency". The Reserve Bank of India had on Monday approved the transfer of a record Rs 1.76 lakh crore dividend and surplus reserves to the government, boosting the BJP-led regime

Srinagar, Aug 30: Armed with a Supreme Court order, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday met his ailing party colleague Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami who has been under house arrest since August 5. Yechury arrived here in the afternoon and was escorted by police to meet Tarigami at his Gupkar Road residence in Srinagar's Civil Lines area. Officials said the CPI(M) leader spent nearly

Kochi, Aug 29: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday asserted that there was no change in the CPI(M)-LDF government's stance on Sabarimala and lashed out at the BJP saying the saffron party had "cheated" devotees in the name of a new legislation. "There is no change in the state government's stand on Sabarimala. Our stand was to implement the Supreme Court order. If the court orders

Mumbai, Aug 29: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said it knew that Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' was a literary classic and that it didn't mean to suggest that all the books seized by Pune police in the Elgar Parishad-Koregaon Bhima case were incriminating. The observation by Justice Sarang Kotwal came a day after media reports said he asked accused Vernon Gonsalves to explain why he kept

New Delhi, Aug 29: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday told the Supreme Court that custodial interrogation of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram in the INX media case is required as if his plea for anticipatory bail is given it would affect cases linvolving Vijay Mallaya, Mehul Choksi, Neerav Modi and Zakir Naik. Disputing the contention of Chidambaram's lawyers, the agency also argued that

Islamabad, Aug 29: Pakistan has successfully test-fired surface-to-surface ballistic missile 'Ghaznavi', capable of delivering multiple warheads up to 290 kms, the Army said on Thursday, amid fresh Indo-Pak tensions after India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status. Pakistan on Wednesday closed three aviation routes of Karachi airspace till August 31, which had promoted speculation about the