More than 1.20 lakh Himachalis have already returned home in less than a week's time. There is a list of 21,000 others approved for return, and at least two lakh more are still awaiting official nod for their return. Will this influx see a spike in coronavirus numbers? That is the administration's main worry, reports Ashwani Sharma.
'The feeling is that Rajinikanth is pro-Modi than anti-Modi.'
"I myself come from a non-Hindi state of Gujarat. If some people want to do politics, it is their choice," Shah told reporters in New Delhi.
Although the government did not release details of the agenda of the meeting, the Cabinet is understood to have deliberated on the ongoing Cauvery water sharing dispute with Karnataka, besides other subjects.
The Rs 978 crore mission, which has been rescheduled for Monday after scientists corrected the glitch in the rocket, will be launched at 2.43 p.m from the second launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, over 100 km from Chennai.
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To start with, the air freight service will be introduced connecting all four metros-- Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata -- taking Nagpur as a hub of operations in the first phase. This will happen as soon as the Air India could provide an aircraft on wet lease to India Post.
The 44 metre tall four-stage PSLV placed Italian satellite AGILE into orbit at 550 km above the earth.
The people of the southern part of the country could see a greater part of the partial solar eclipse because of the geometry of the eclipse path.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will have a massive role in India's bid to regain the World Cup, coach Ravi Shastri said, harping on the veteran's ability to influence the game's little moments.
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AirAsia India launched service in June and has two Airbus A320 planes.
Store will directly employ 500-700 people, half of them women, and create 1,500 jobs indirectly
This classification of districts is to be followed by states and union terrotories till a week post May 3, when the second phase of lockdown will end, for containment operations.
While the DMK fears that the Congress with its poor strike rate will pull it down in the 2021 state elections, like it did five years ago, the ruling AIADMK is worried that the BJP may ultimately do a Bihar on it, relegating it to second place in Tamil Nadu, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
While okra was being sold for Rs 100-120 a kg and cauliflower for Rs 120-140 a kg in Mumbai and its suburbs, all other vegetable prices have increased by almost 100 per cent since July 20.
Hyundai Motors India has flown in over 90 robots from Korea to work on assembly lines in its factory near Chennai. The results are better than expectations
The 10-day Ganesh festival began on Saturday under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, with devotees restricting celebrations to their homes and using online platforms to get 'darshan' of the Lord at temples, amid strict COVID-19 restrictions imposed by governments.
A free press is not necessarily an unbiased press. The media curates what it presents to the public, and that curation is driven by multiple considerations, argues Devangshu Datta.
'The Indian middle class ignores the conflicts areas in Jammu and Kashmir, in Central India and in the North East.' 'The violence does not touch us at all and so we are able to easily look away from the underlying reasons and grievances.'
"Those running a caste-based political party here [in Tamil Nadu] and claiming that they are the champions of the Tamil language, cling to power by aligning with North Indian parties," Vijaykant said taking a dig at PMK leader Ramadoss.
'Rajnikanth's Kaala seems like a continuation from where Mani Ratnam had left off in his masterpiece Naayagan.'
A Coast Guard Dornier surveillance aircraft with three crew members on board went missing on Monday night off the coast of Chennai.
National brands prefer the acquisition route since the southern market is culturally different, reports T E Narasimhan from Chennai.
A Ganesh Nadar shares interesting vignettes that usually get lost in the heat-and-dust of election coverage.
Flowing from an inadequate understanding of Tamil history and politics is an urban elitist mindset that does not seem to be able to touch and feel the real angst of the larger Tamil-speaking masses, cutting across the social and economic status of the individual, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'I am sure Amma's soul is watching over Tamil Nadu and blessing it," Modi said, and was met with a thunderous applause.
Among the metros, people in Delhi are the happiest while those in Mumbai are the least happy.
A cyclone alert has been sounded in Cudallore and neighbouring districts.
The Sri Lankan cartoon faux pas has revived the slackening pan-Tamil mood in Tamil Nadu, says N Sathiya Moorthy
NEC Solutions (America) Inc, a provider of integrated solutions for connected enterprises in North America, said on Thursday that it was keen on acquiring business process outsourcing companies in India.
The deaths were mainly due to wall collapse, electrocution and other rain-related incidents, relief commissioner, R Santhanam, told PTI.
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'We will not accept these misadventures by the Chinese.'
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