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India has emerged as the world's fifth largest economy by overtaking the UK and France in 2019, a US-based think tank said in its report.

Rahul Gandhi or the Congress can never think of disrespecting former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the party said on Monday defending Mr Gandhi's act of tearing a copy of an ordinance in 2013.

Wading into the controversy over videos of December 15 violence at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra on Monday said that 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab would be termed "innocent" had he entered the university library with a gun.

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Monday defended the controversial new citizenship law and the government's move in Kashmir, as he came to Brussels to promote what he hopes will be closer strategic ties to the European Union.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has named his deputy, Sushil Chandra, as his nominee to the proposed Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir in keeping with a written request from the Union Ministry of Law and Justice, sources told NDTV.

After months of "self-imposed" political exile, Congress leader and former Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu was seen at a public function in his hometown Amritsar that was attended by his political rivals, including former Akali minister Bikram Majithia.

The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was brutally assaulted and gangraped in 2012 on Monday expressed hope that the four convicts will finally be hanged on March 3, the latest execution date fixed by a court after two earlier death warrants against the convicts were stayed.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on indicated on Monday that the Indian Navy may not get approval for a third aircraft carrier anytime soon as the priority is to expand its submarine fleet.

The centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that on an average the government takes 127 days for clearing the recommendation sent to it during the process of appointing judges to the higher judiciary, whereas the top court collegium takes 119 days to deal with it.

Buoyed by the thumping victory in the Delhi assembly polls, the AAP aims to take the "Arvind Kejriwal model of development" to Uttar Pradesh and strengthen its base in the state, senior party leader Sanjay Singh said on Monday.

Indian Navy's Poseidon 8I anti-submarine warfare aircraft was deployed to carry out surveillance on movement of Chinese troops during the 73-day-long standoff between India and China in mountainous Doklam.

The Maharashtra Congress today said the BJP government's decision to build a wall to keep a slum out of sight during US President Donald Trump's visit in Gujarat on February 24 was "inhumane".

In a bid to pacify angry protesters against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a committee appointed by the Union Home Ministry has suggested setting 1951 as the cut-off year for defining the indigenous people of Assam and introducing an Inner Line Permit (ILP) to restrict the flow of outsiders into the state.

Debt-ridden telecom firms have paid part of the Rs 1.47 lakh crore they owe to the government as the Reserve Bank expressed concern today about the possibility of their defaulting on bank loans. Bharti Airtel made a payment of Rs 10,000 crore today. Vodafone Idea and Tata Group have already paid their share. The telecom companies -- which have been struggling with huge losses -- paid up after the Supreme Court warned that their bosses could be accused of contempt and ordered them to appear in court today. In a hearing last week, the court had ripped into the firms and the government over the dues remaining unpaid despite its order. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she would get in touch with the telecom department and find out what position it wants to take on the arrears.

A Delhi court today dismissed the bail plea of former Fortis Healthcare promoter Malvinder Singh, arrested for alleged misappropriation of funds at Religare Finvest Ltd. (RFL).