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With its employee unions threatening a day-long hunger strike on Friday over delayed salaries during the festival season, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has said that it is hopeful of paying salaries to its 1.76 lakh employees for September before Diwali.

Hundreds of Indian nurses holding diploma certificates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are at risk of losing their jobs due to a new educational requirement, a media report has said.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam dreamt of the India of 21st century and he made an exceptional contribution to achieve the goal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today as he paid tribute to the former president on his 88th birth anniversary.

Abdul Kalam Birth Anniversary: Today is 88th birth anniversary of Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, fondly called APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr Kalam and Missile Man.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday highlighted the progress made by the government''s flagship Ayushman Bharat programme under which 50 lakh beneficiaries have been treated free of cost.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLC Ramrao Wadkute and former party MLA Bappu Pathare joined the BJP on Tuesday, ahead of the next week''s Maharashtra Assembly polls.

Over 100 British-Indian professional and community organisations on Monday wrote to the UK Opposition Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to condemn the Labour Party''s stance on Kashmir in the wake of the Indian government revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the Congress had lost the national election for its use of abusive language to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but in the same breath, refused to comment on Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's offensive descriptor for Sonia Gandhi recently.

National carrier Air India made history today by becoming the first airline in the world to use a pilot-controlled semi-robotic aircraft tractor as alternate taxiing equipment on a commercial Airbus A320 flight

Of 1,138 candidates who are contesting the Haryana Assembly election, 117 or 10 per cent have declared criminal cases against themselves, while 70 have declared serious criminal cases against them, according to the Haryana Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer, said on Monday that the Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address mega rallies in Charkhi Dadri and Kurukshetra in Haryana today. PM Modi addressed the first of his four grand rallies in Ballabhgarh on Monday.

Osmanabad Zilla Parishad school on Monday postponed its first-term examination paper for Chemistry to Friday apparently due to a public meeting organised by the district unit of Shiv Sena for party chief Uddhav Thackeray.

Successful micro-level field experiments like the one that established a connect between barefoot children, whooping cough and school drop outs in Africa characterise the works of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo who believe there can be no grand theory of underdevelopment, said economists.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on Monday for getting the Nobel Prize and said his work on poverty alleviation and development of new techniques was truly pathbreaking.