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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who has been facing flak from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for his ISI comments, is now being slapped with criminal and defamation cases.

In an exchange on Twitter, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rebutted Kiran Mazumdar Shaw as she wondered why the ban on E-cigarettes, approved on Wednesday by the cabinet, had not been announced by the Health Minister. The Biocon chairman, a leading industry voice, had also raised other questions, like why the finance minister had not announced measures to revive the economy.

Against the backdrop of recent pitch by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to make Hindi a language of India's identity, DMK has argued that Tamil was more suited for it.

Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, wanted in connection with the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank or PNB fraud and money laundering case, will appear before a UK court via video link from a London prison today for a routine "call-over" remand hearing.

The rousing strains of "Jana Gana Mana" were played out by an US army band during the joint Indo-US military exercise on Wednesday. In the video shared by news agency ANI, the American soldiers can be seen playing the Indian national anthem on their trumpets at the Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington, D.C., during the concluding day of the Yudh Abhyas 2019.

Three women and one man were taken into custody on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in several cases of honey trapping, Bhopal police said.

Super 30 founder and noted mathematician Anand Kumar has been felicitated in the US with a prestigious teaching award for his contributions towards imparting education to the country''s needy students.

The mega "Howdy, Modi!" Indian-American community event in Houston on Sunday to greet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump would provide the world a glimpse of the valuable contributions of Indian-Americans to the cultural, intellectual and social landscape of the United States, the organisers said.

Rajnath Singh wore a G-suit and buckled himself into the light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas in Bengaluru this morning, becoming the first Defence Minister to fly in this fighter jet. The made-in-India aircraft took off from the HAL airport in Bengaluru.

The Election Commission on Wednesday ruled out the use of ballot paper in next month's Maharashtra Assembly elections, terming them "history" and defended the use of Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs, saying these machines cannot be tampered with.

The clash between Alka Lamba and the Aam Aadmi Party erupted again on Wednesday with her claim that the Delhi Assembly Speaker refused to consider her resignation on Twitter, while the party claimed she herself had urged the Speaker to not take it seriously.

All schools and junior colleges in Mumbai will remain closed today after the weather office forecast "extremely heavy rainfall" over the next 48 hours, the government said. The weather office has issued a red alert--indicating "extremely heavy rainfall"--for Mumbai and neighbouring Raigad, news agency PTI reported quoting weather officials.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump are scheduled to meet twice in less than a week this month, India's Ambassador to the United States has confirmed, asserting that the India-US strategic relationship has the "potential to become the "defining partnership within this century".

More than three years after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rolled out an ambitious prohibition policy, its success remains a matter of debate. But one thing it has achieved is an alarmingly high pile of excise cases. Now, the Patna High Court has asked the state government to present a plan for how it plans to dispose these cases.

Two pilots of state-run Pawan Hans Limited were suspended for three months by aviation regulator DGCA on Wednesday for not extending the ''landing gear'' of a helicopter while landing at Guwahati airport, causing damage to its belly, officials said.