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Flood in the rice bowl: Keralites who lost everything stare at uncertainty.
Ravaging floods claimed 17 more lives in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday raising the toll to 37 even as evacuation of people to safer areas continued.
Mina Guli wants to complete 100 marathons across the world to raise awareness of water scarcity and save water.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the Modi government of "abandoning" farmers at a time when the country is faced with an agrarian crisis.
A village pradhan and a former village functionary in the border district of Lahaul and Spiti have been arrested on the charges of sedition after they allegedly threatened to seek China's help for development of the region.
The farmers' tractor rally - Kisaan Parade - against the farm laws was expected to be held after 12 pm. However, huge crowds gathered on the borders at around 8 am.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who undertook an aerial survey of rain ravaged areas of Idukki and Wayanad, said Kerala was in the midst of an unprecedented flood havoc and the calamity has caused "immeasurable misery and devastation."
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Rejecting criticism of jobless growth, he said if state after state is creating good number of jobs, how can the Centre be creating joblessness?
"I would like to tell Arvind Kejriwal that he should keep politics aside and help the ongoing investigation into this matter as a human being," says Gajendra's brother
Senior Cabinet Ministers, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to brief him over the suicide of farmer Gajendra Singh.
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'The last three decades were the era of D, where D stands for deforestation, destruction, degradation, disaster, damages, diseases, difficulties... and finally it leads to death.'
The incident comes in the wake of alleged suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar pursuing PhD in Hyderabad Central University.
India's water future remains very bleak. The monsoon season, which once extended to 4 months, is now down to less than 30 days of heavy rain.
Hail and rainstorm killed 160 people in 11 provincial regions, mainly along the mighty Yangtze River and its distributaries, and have left 28 missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The highest farmer suicides have been reported from Beed district
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Cabinet sub-committee to review the situation and take necessary steps.
Mandatory hallmarking of gold would be a positive in making the gold market more organised. Mandatory hallmarking would come into effect from January 15, 2020, with a one-year transition period for trade to sell existing inventories. Experts also expect more policy measures next year to bring in more transparency in terms of gold as an asset class.
Incessant rains lashing Andhra Pradesh for the last five days have claimed 42 lives so far in various rain-related incidents like wall collapse and inundated crops in about eight lakh hectares, official sources said on Sunday.
Ranjit Sinha has not only insulted every woman in the land, he has angered the sensibilities of every right thinking citizen of the land with his crass remark, says A Ganesh Nadar.
Swirling floodwaters have paralysed normal life and marooned over 1.20 crore people.
Nine people died and several others were reported missing as a string of landslips triggered by heavy downpour battered Idukki and adjoining districts of Kerala on Monday.
It is a complete mayhem in West Bengal, Manipur and Odisha with more than 60 dead
Neither the CAA nor the proposed NRC are important enough to stake the well-being of so many or stake economic growth. Getting growth back on track is more important, notes Mahesh Vyas.
he government is examining a plan of bank recapitalisation and considering an urban version of MNREGS.
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Governor Rajan can be more unambiguously pro-growth.
Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy, says Kerry.
Cabinet sub-committee to meet to review the situation and take necessary steps. Sanjay Jog reports
India's gold import bill, estimated at $3 billion in May, is seen falling further this month
The highway was closed on Saturday due to heavy snowfall and landslides.
The method is based on a network analysis of regional weather data.
The Shiv Sena chief said that for the alliance to stay intact, both the BJP and Shiv Sena need to exercise caution.
India's economy grew an historically modest 7 per cent last quarter but industrial output has generally been strong.
Congress party in Maharashtra has its hopes pinned on a 'newly recharged' vice-president Rahul Gandhi for its revival.