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Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that he believed metro services should not be free but the fares must be low. Mr Puri was attending the Urban Mobility India (UMI) conference in the city.

The number of military aircraft in the country will soon increase to 2,000 from the present 1,400, thus opening up more opportunities for the MSME sector in repair and overhaul, a senior IAF officer said on Friday.

The BJP would hold protest demonstrations across the country on Saturday, demanding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's apology for misleading the country on the Rafale deal, party leaders said on Friday.

The Bombay High Court on Friday granted civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha interim protection from arrest till December 2 in the Koregaon Bhima violence case.

India and the US are understood to have resolved most of the important trade issues, thus paving the way for an ''initial trade package'' wherein the two countries are looking for an equitable market access.

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday regretted that Indian historians have erred in not properly projecting the contribution of stalwarts like Veer Savarkar and their contributions to the country's freedom struggle.

The AJSU Party on Friday announced its second list of six candidates, taking the total number of nominees to 19 for the November-December elections to the 81-member Jharkhand assembly. Former Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee president and three-time MLA Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu, who joined the AJSU Party on Thursday, got the ticket to contest from Ghatsila (ST), his stronghold.

The vision of the RSS and its affiliated organisations is not limited to "forming government" but it is more about "nation-building", senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari said on Friday. He was speaking at a function organised by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in Pune.

In an address delivered to judges on his last day at work, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today spoke on the multi-faceted nature of the judicial process and why it cannot alwaysadhere to strict timelines. One of the main reasons for this, he said, was the fact that "deliverables" in judicial proceedings do not follow a single chain of command.

The Central government has "requested" all domestic airlines and airports across the country to have a Swachh Bharat themed cover page for the next issue of their in-flight and in-house magazines respectively, according to an official communication.

The Home Ministry in collaboration with the UN Women today flagged off an awareness campaign to end violence against women from Sultanpur metro station in Delhi, officials said.

Outgoing Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Friday said that a part of him will always remain with the Supreme Court.

Outgoing Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today asked judges across the country to "deal with new challenges" that "arise from within and outside" the court. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who last week gave a historic verdict on the decades-old Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute, addressed high court and trial court judges in a video conference today that also served as a farewell speech before he retires on Sunday. Chief Justice of India-designate SA Bobde is taking over.

India has released nearly $28 million financial aid to the Nepal government for rebuilding houses in Nuwakot and Gorkha districts that were damaged in the devastating earthquake in 2015.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will meet on November 17 and discuss the course of action regarding the formation of government in Maharashtra, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said on Friday.