The Commission said it is issuing the clarification 'in view of the anecdotal reports which are not based on empirical facts'.
Grisham joined the Trump campaign in 2015 and is one of the last remaining aides from Trump's campaign still serving in the White House.
The Delhi CM said that the people of India won't forgive the Election Commission and the BJP for manipulating the Constitution.
Rio-Olympics bound Tintu Luka grabbed the spotlight as she won the gold in women's 800m race on an uneventful third and final day of the Federation Cup National Athletics Championships, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
The meeting between Jaishankar and Pompeo comes at a time both India and the US are at loggerheads with China.
It could be a windfall for cricket World Cup broadcaster ESPN Star Sports if India reaches the knockout stages, as the spot rate for advertisements could then touch up to Rs 24 lakh (Rs 2.4 million) per 10 seconds.
The West Bengal State Election Commission on Sunday postponed counting of votes in the election to Bidhannagar and Asansol municipal corporations following allegations of large-scale violence, even as opposition parties demanded fresh elections.
Haryana sprinter Dharambir Singh, who was barred from representing the country in the Rio Olympics at the last minute for failing a dope test, has been slapped an eight-year ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency.
Ace discus thrower Vikas Gowda clinched the first gold for India as the home team won three medals on the second day to make their presence felt in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships, in Pune on Thursday.
Asian Games gold medallist Joseph Abraham's hopes of qualifying for London Olympics were virtually dashed as he finished second in the men's 400m hurdles on the third day of the National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Hyderabad on Monday.
Asian Games gold medallist Sudha Singh qualified for the upcoming London Olympics in the 3000m steeplechase by breaking her own National record in the VIII meeting Iberoamericano de Atletismo championship in Huelva, Spain.
Women activists urged the government to withdraw the Bill from consideration in the Rajya Sabha, and review the fundamental flaws pending broad-based community consultations.
Jaspal Rana and Samresh Jung finished sixth and 36th respectively in the 25 m Standard Pistol event at the World Shooting Championships.
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Lawyers say compensation may be an uphill task for investors because of a lack of judicial precedent and broader institutional difficulties.
The Indian IT services sector is scrambling to retain talent since digitisation-led transformation has increased the demand for a digitally skilled workforce. As a result, the pull for jobs for tech professionals is also coming from non-IT sectors, leading to higher attrition among IT companies. The average number of tech jobs from non-IT sectors has seen a 41 per cent uptick in March-May'21 versus March-May'19, according to data from Naukri.com.
Post-bribery disclosure, Cognizant is not pursuing greenfield expansion in the country and relying on leased facilities for new demands. The incident, which came to light in 2016, is also said to have claimed 200-300 jobs so far mainly in areas like administration, legal, and procurement.
The government can issue recapitalisation bonds, or the RBI's huge reserves of over $127 can also be dipped into to help the state-owned bank's recapitalisation needs.
'Section 153A is not meant to protect fragile sentiments of the majority Hindu community who choose to get offended by slogans celebrating the success of the Pakistani cricket team.'
Overall, the budget was Neutral for IT sector. Services sector continues to grow in double digits. Services sector growth pegged at 9.3 per cent.
The vaccine would be first made available to the vulnerable population and eventually, it would be available in the private market for all.
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Retail investors may safely invest in shorter-duration funds, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Three track and field athletes, including veteran triple jumper Renjith Maheswary, on Monday booked their berths for next month's Rio Olympics with national record breaking performances in the fourth Indian Grand Prix in Bengaluru.
The Indian men's and women's 4x400m relay race teams virtually qualified for Rio Olympics after clocking impressive timings at the 3rd Indian Grand Prix athletics event in Bangalore on Sunday.
Specific sections of the Companies Act need to be amended to empower Sebi to regulate or take penal action against an unlisted entity and its promoters for violating the insider trading and other securities norms.
A special court, which convicted 35 people in a fodder scam case, on Wednesday sentenced 22 of them to prison terms ranging from three to six years and slapped fines ranging from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 1.2 crore on the 22 convicted, all suppliers. Of the convicted, Md Tohid got the maximum imprisonment of five years and a fine of Rs 1.2 crore.
The investment limit in long-term infrastructure bonds, however, has been kept unchanged at $25 billion.
A 13-member group, headed by RBI Executive Director R Gandhi, has made various recommendations on G-Sec market, retail participation and interest rate derivatives market.
Theoretically, the currency with the public should expand in sync with the nominal income, which again moves in relation to the nominal growth rate of the economy. But the correlation breaks easily when other factors come into play, says Anup Roy.
Left to compete within an hour of reaching here from China, promising sprinter Dutee Chand won the gold in women's 100m sprint event in the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships on Thursday. Dutee competed in the 100m heats within an hour of reaching Taiwan from Beijing and five hours later ran the finals which she won in 11.50secs to bag the gold. Her timing was far below the Olympics qualification standard of 11.32 secs. Long jumper Ankit Sharma leapt 7.67m on his last attempt to also seal a gold medal. Dutee was part of the national record breaking women's 4x100m relay quartet which finished fourth in the IAAF World Challenge event in Beijing yesterday and she few from the Chinese capital to Taiwan where she reached two hours before the start of her event.
The elections are not only a means for TMC to prove its wide, unopposed mass allegiance but also a way to bargain for national leadership among regional political parties in the road to New Delhi.
Gay won the race in 9.84 seconds, by an impressive 0.23 seconds, the largest margin of victory in a US championships 100 metres since electronic timing began in 1975.
The regulator has sought an increase in the investment limit for tax-saving equity mutual fund schemes to Rs 200,000 from the current Rs 150,000.
"The Dubai camp is for Olympic B qualifiers who are in India and currently unable to train," Swimming Federation of India secretary-general Monal Chokshi told Reuters.
Currently, FPIs can invest up to $30 billion in Government securities, of which $5 billion is reserved for long-term investors.
Indian American Rajat Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs, had violated the firm's code of conduct by disclosing details from a 2008 board meeting to hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, the main accused in the largest hedge fund insider trading case to hit US courts, the company CEO Lloyd Blankfein has testified.
Indian swimmer Sandeep Sejwal qualified for the 2012 London Olympics after clocking 1:02.62sec in the 100m Breaststroke event at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai.
Kraft Foods, the world's second biggest food company, has said it is facing investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for possible corrupt practices in India by its arm Cadbury, relating to a manufacturing plant there.
US regulator seeks Sebi's help in probing online Ponzi scheme run by duo under American names
