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India and the European Union on Monday held talks covering developments in the area of nuclear, chemical and biological disarmament as well as issues relating to outer space and export control regimes.

The Supreme Court Monday expressed happiness that the Centre has implemented its verdict to consider granting permanent commission to women officers in the Army, saying, "it is the victory of our nation that women aspire to achieve the highest pedestal."

Delhi recorded 4,454 fresh COVID-19 cases on Monday and a positivity rate of 11.94 per cent while 121 more fatalities pushed the death count to 8,512, authorities said.

A FIR has been registered against streaming service Netflix over allegations that the BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" has hurt religious sentiments because it shows a Hindu woman and a Muslim man kissing

The NDRF has earmarked 30 teams to launch rescue and relief operations in view of the cyclone "Nivar" that is expected to hit the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry between Tuesday and Thursday, officials said on Monday.

Mamata Banerjee is "the most secular leader" in the country, a number of ex-AIMIM leaders said Monday as they joined the Trinamool Congress in Bengal and promised that neither the BJP nor AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi would make political gains

The UK government has confirmed a further one-year visa extension for foreign doctors and nurses, including from India, whose visas are set to expire before March 31, 2021, as they battle the coronavirus pandemic in the UK.

The Delhi High Court on Monday said a victim of objectionable online content cannot be expected to keep on looking for fresh links and make complaints each time and a permanent solution has to be found to this problem.

From December 1, West Bengal will launch an initiative to take government services to the doorsteps of people. 'Duare Duare Sarkar' or government at the doorstep. That's the name of the initiative that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced at Khatra in Bankura district today. To run till Gandhi Jayanti on January 30, the initiative will try and deliver pending services to people.

The CBI has arrested the Managing Director of Angel Agritech group, Nazubuulla, who was allegedly on run in one of the ponzi scam cases of West Bengal, commonly known as Saradha scam, officials said Monday.

Eleven of 14 inter-faith marriages in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, involved criminality, but there is no evidence of conspiracy or foreign funding, the Kanpur police have said, contradicting claims about the so-called "love jihad". Over the past months, Chief Ministers of several BJP-ruled states have promised to bring laws to combat "love jihad" -- a term coined by right wing groups claiming that Muslim men enter into relationships with non-Muslim women to forcibly convert them. This, the right wing groups insist, is part of a conspiracy.

After taking oath as MLA in the newly-constituted Bihar Legislative Assembly on Monday, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav reminded the National Democratic Alliance government to provide 19 lakh jobs to the people of the state in the first month of its working as promised in the manifesto.

India is subjecting foreign investment proposals from Hong Kong at par with China as part of a new policy that makes approval mandatory for plans from countries that share a land border, a person with the knowledge of the matter said.

The air quality deteriorated to reach "very poor" level in Ghaziabad and Noida on Monday but remained "poor" in Greater Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad in the National Capital Region (NCR), according to a government agency.

A team of the Narcotics Control Bureau -- which has been investigating the use and supply of drugs in the film industry -- was on Sunday attacked by a mob during an operation