The dry-run was being conducted in state capitals in at least three session sites. Some states also included districts that are situated in difficult terrain or have poor logistical support, according to officials.
The apex court said it was duty-bound by the seven-judge bench's order in the case and 'cannot override it'.
The entire world is taking up the habit of 'namaste', Modi said.
The thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed in enforcement of the nationwide lockdown, officials said. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across the country between 10 am and 11 am, officials said.
The total assets of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) have grown to about Rs 500,000 crore (Rs 5 trillion) from Rs 381.90 crore (Rs 3.819 billion) five decades ago at the time of nationalisation, a senior official said in Coimbatore.\n\n
US Consulate manager Nelson Wu asks Indian students not to feel apprehensive about racism incidents in USA.
Two law students attempt self immolation protesting the Supreme Court's order on quotas in private colleges.
A total of 37 deaths were reported since Thursday evening of which 14 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, nine from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh,Tamil Nadu and Telengana and one from Karnataka, ministry data stated.
It's the first-of-its kind restaurant in India where robots interact with customers and deliver food.
The state is following surveillance, containment, increasing testing facilities, and ensuring essentials at people's doorstep, among other strategies, reports T E Narasimhan.
The government will create an EV Venture Capital Fund, for financial support to start-ups in the segment. The overall aim is to make Tamil Nadu the preferred destination for EVs and component makers.
Leading IT service provider, Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking at India as a talent pool for global market, a senior company official said on Wednesday.
The arrest of Paravai Badusha will help the police solve many terror cases including the BJP office blast in Bangalore and the 1998 Advani assassination bid in Coimbatore. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Over 100 students taking part in anti-Lanka protests were arrested in Chennai on Monday when they tried to lay siege on the Raj Bhavan. Students in Tamil Nadu have stepped up pressure on the Union government, demanding that India move a resolution against Sri Lanka -- for its alleged war crimes against Lankan Tamils -- at the United Nation's human rights body meet later this month.
Welcoming the reduction in pollution, environmentalists urged the government to treat it as a "wake-up call" and stop its "obsession" with "development" at the cost of the environment.
Students' of various colleges in Tamil Nadu continued their protests for the seventh day on Sunday over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
An aviation website has evaluated AirAsia's potential network in India based on passenger market size, distance from Chennai and competition.
The director decided to stick the poster of his new film Onaiyum Aattinkuttiyum on the street walls.
'In the last three to four months the BJP vote share in Tamil Nadu, which was 2.86% in 2016, has gone up to about 5%-6%.' 'The AIADMK will lose the minority votes and others who don't like the BJP and Modi.' 'The AIADMK decided to take the risk to get the 5%-6% votes that the BJP will bring in.'
Power cuts has caused thousands of businesses to suffer losses and shut down.
Kishore Singh salutes Akbar Padamsee, the legendary painter who passed into the ages last fortnight.
Your opportunity to study at a leading engineering institute just got better.
The net loss of the carrier marginally decreased to Rs 5,388.82 crore (Rs 53.88 billion) in 2013-14 as against Rs 5,490.16 crore (Rs 54.9 billion) in the previous fiscal.
The yagna was organised by lawmaker R Vetrivel, a Jayalalithaa loyalist who has spent a fortune on prayers for his unwell leader.
Air Carnival can make quick progress by stepping into the space that SpiceJet has left empty.
Former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam minister M P Swaminathan was on Monday arrested at Tirupur near Coimbatore in connection with a land grabbing case, police said.
'It is only natural that in such a national crisis, we should lend a helping hand to the less privileged members of our communities.'
Five more persons have been arrested in connection with with the April 17 blast near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Bangalore that left 16 persons injured.
The police on Friday arrested two more people for their alleged involvement in blasts outside the Bharatiya Janata Party's office in the city. Vayalar Hakim and Azghar Ali, who were picked up by the Tamil Nadu police, hail from Coimbatore.
The banned terror outfit Al-Ummah was neutralised to a large extent after the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, but it now appears they are making a come back, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Centres like Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and Thrissur and Kochi in Kerala are facing huge shortage of gold. These centres constitute around 15-20 per cent of India's overall annual demand of the yellow metal.
The film is reduced to a lame science fiction with an overdose of action, writes S Saraswathi.
The contemporary problem with the BJP in Tamil Nadu is that it has been trying hard to package the DMK especially as anti-god and anti-Hinduism, and seeking it to link to Periyar and M Karunanidhi, and by extension to Stalin, the latter's son and successor to the party mantle. Their hope was to consolidate the perceived 'pro-god, pro-religion votes', which they saw returning to the fold post-MGR, post-Jayalalithaa. But no such substantial vote-bank existed even in Periyar's time, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Even as its senior executives are reported to be in Abu Dhabi to further negotiate with Etihad on the proposed stake sale to the Gulf carrier, Jet Airways engineers are on a "go-slow" mode following the failure of talks over wage hike and arrears, sources said.
The state government had on Tuesday sought the court's permission to erect banners welcoming Modi and Xi Jinping, who are slated to meet at Mahabalipuram, for their second informal meet from October 11-13.
The policy aims to create around 5,000 startups, including 10 global high-growth startups, and to create a minimum of 100,000 high skilled job creation, direct and indirect, in the startup ecosystem by 2023.
US exports to India have quadrupled, while Indian exports to the US have grown by 180 per cent for the last three years, but despite this India was still only 13th largest trading partner for the US, Consul General of US Consulate, Chennai, Jennifer Macintyre, said in Coimbatore.
Eyeing to capture wider market for embedded software systems, Florida-based Trioz Tech launched its operations in India by setting up a research and development centre in Coimbatore.\n\n
Weidlich said that India failed to take Ayurveda and Siddha medicines to the world market.
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