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The Central Board of Secondary Education has directed schools affiliated to it to ensure that students do not carry school bags till class two.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said the army was vested with complete power to shoot people who open fire at them, adding that they don't need to wait for permission to eliminate the enemy before being shot.

Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued visas to 81 Hindu pilgrims to visit shrines in Pakistan for the 308th birthday celebrations of Shiv Avtari Satguru Sant Shadaram Saheb.

An FIR was today registered against unknown railway personnel in Indore-Patna Express derailment in Kanpur Dehat, that has claimed at least 146 lives.

Tiger deaths have registered an increase of 25 per cent this year, with the toll recorded at 98 compared to last year's 78.

The National Green Tribunal today slammed the UP government over the issue of shifting of tanneries located on the banks of Ganga in Kanpur to some other place to stop discharge of effluents, saying, "it can't behave like a king."

As rush in banks and ATMs due to demonetisation continues, Government employees belonging to Group-C today started receiving Rs 10,000 in cash as advance of their salary for the month of November.

Some unscrupulous ones put a Dr before their name. Others dont, but dont like being called quacks or barefoot doctors either. They are ok with -rural medical practitioners- and they know they plug a huge gap in the health infrastructure in the country, an estimated 2.5 million of them.

The CBI today agreed to give a copy of the statement of its 'secret' witness to former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in Sheena Bora murder case, but only after deleting certain portions of it as probe in financial transactions with regard to the case was still on.

The Supreme Court today entertained a plea seeking SIT probe into the controversial suicide case of senior bureaucrat B K Bansal but warned against politicising the "sensitive" case in which the officer had come under the scanner of CBI for allegedly accepting bribe.

India and the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed an agreement on Monday on making India an associate member state of the research organisation that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

Malayali Superstar Mohanlal has given a "big salute" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to demonetise high value currency notes.

At a hospital in Uttar Pradesh where hundreds injured in the Indore-Patna Express train accident are being treated, a five-year-old has only four words to say: "Where is my mother?"

Upping the ante against demonetisation, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today exhorted people to "change" the Prime Minister instead of defunct notes, saying those supporting the exercise were against the country, even as AAP announced a march to Parliament on Tuesday.

The bullet-riddled body of a person, missing after a drinking session with a group, was found floating on river Churni in West Bengal's Nadia district today.