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Mangaluru, Jan 5: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated Kochi - Mangaluru Natural Gas Pipeline to the Nation through a video conference today. The event marks an important milestone towards the creation of ‘One Nation One Gas Grid'. Governors and Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Kerala, along with Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas were also present on the occasion. Speaking on the

New Delhi, Jan 5: A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green signal to the redevelopment of New Delhi's Central Vista area, rejecting a batch of petitions challenging the scheme for alleged violation of land use and environmental norms. The court by a 2:1 majority held that the exercise of the power under the Delhi Development Authority Act was just and valid and that the

Udupi, Jan 5: A senior Yakshagana artiste died of heart attack while performing on stage in the wee hours of Tuesday at Kajralli Kalpettu near Shiriyara in Brahmavar taluk of Udupi district. The deceased has been identified as Sadhu Kottary (57), a popular name in Yakshagana field and was known for lead roles in episodes for Mandarthi Yakshagana troupe. He was a resident of Barkur. According to

New Delhi, Jan 4: The crucial seventh round of talks between the government and 41 farmers representatives ended without any breakthrough and the next round of talks is expected on January 8, sources said. The meeting had started around 2.30 p.m. at Vigyan Bhavan in the presence of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State

New Delhi, Jan 4: The ED has brought under its scanner the alleged fraud cases of instant loan sanction through mobile applications, reported recently from Telangana and Tamil Nadu, as part of its money-laundering probe in an online betting scam pegged at over Rs 1,100 crore, official sources said on Monday. At least five people, including a software engineer, have reportedly ended their lives in

Bhopal, Jan 4: The voices of discontent in the Madhya Pradesh BJP have become louder after two ministers were sworn-in during the cabinet expansion by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Ajay Vishnoi, a former minister and BJP MLA from Jabalpur, took a dig at the government for neglecting the Mahakaushal and Vindhya regions and said "these two regions cannot fly high but only flutter" The third

Banda, Jan 4: A Dalit family has left their home in a village here after they were allegedly beaten up and threatened with dire consequences by local strongmen for using a government hand pump, a family member claimed on Monday. The police have booked three people in connection with the incident. However, they did not comment on the family's claim of leaving their house. A member of the Dalit

New Delhi, Jan 4: The Income Tax Department on Monday carried out limited verification exercise at the office premises of the Zee Group and Larsen and Toubro to verify into their bogus inputs about tax credit, official said. A senior IT official, requesting anonymity told media, "There are no searches or raids but we are carrying out limited verification exercise at the offices of the Larsen and

New Delhi, Jan 4: Even as India continues to face aggression by China along the LAC and the Indian Army is engaged in a standoff with the Chinese PLA for the last 8 months, the Modi government has awarded the contract to construct a 5.6-kilometre underground stretch for the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project to a Shanghai-based company. NH had reported in June 2020 that the contract, worth Rs 1,126 crore

Lebanon, Jan 4: Since the Pentagon assassinated Iran’s popular anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his companions in January 2020, there have been growing calls for the expulsion of US forces from the region, and this is only one of the repercussions of the cowardly act of terror, says the secretary general of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah. "One of the main