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Less than 24 hours before Donald Trump's touchdown in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed him.

An Indian Navy aircraft - MiG-29K - on a routine training sortie crashed near Goa this morning. The pilot of the aircraft managed to eject safely.

Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala today sought answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to five questions on US-India trade, H-1 B visas, national security, oil prices and steel export ahead of US President Donald Trump's first state visit to India, which begins on Monday.

Trade ties between the United States and India have long been problematic but under "America First" President Donald Trump and "Make in India" Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they have worsened.

A ''Trump platter'', comprising signature dishes from ITC Maurya's restaurant Bukhara with a little customisation, is likely to be on the menu for US President Donald Trump during his first state visit to India, sources said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed nation today on the 62nd edition of his monthly radio programme "Mann Ki Baat".

A large number of police personnel have been deployed at Delhi's Jaffrabad where hundreds of women are staging a sit-in protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday named the law college of Anjuman-i-Islam in south Mumbai after former chief minister AR Antulay while NCP supremo Sharad Pawar released a book on him.

Attempts are being made to clear a key road in northeast Delhi's Jaffrabad, blocked since last night by more than 200 hundred women protesting against Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA, Delhi Police said this morning.

Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said that dissent and consensus are part of democracy but you cannot get your rights by blocking the road.

Hours before departing for India, US President Donald Trump shared an edited video from the movie 'Baahubali 2: The Conclusion' which shows his own face morphed over the face of the film's actor.

Under the new excise policy of the Madhya Pradesh government for 2020-21, the supply of liquor will be done online while around 2,544 country liquor shops and 1,061 foreign liquor shops will come up in the state in order to increase revenue.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said that US President Donald Trump's visit will not make India a superpower and the country needs human resources along with capital investment.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday likened US President Donald Trump to "Mogambo" -- a villain played by late actor Amrish Puri in the Bollywood film "Mr India" -- hitting out at the central government for spending crores of rupees to welcome him.

Members of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students' coordination committee started a three-day hunger strike, seeking action against police personnel for alleged brutality which happened during an anti-CAA protests on the campus last December and withdrawal of cases against protesters.