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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.

The High Level Committee on Implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord will formally submit its report to the state government on February 25, senior minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Saturday asked RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to contest direct elections to test the "public support for the Manuvadi agenda of the Sangh."

As many as 305 travellers from the coronavirus affected countries have been identified and 237 are kept under home isolation, said Department of Health and Family Welfare, Kerala.

Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha met Pakistan President Arif Alvi in Lahore on Saturday where the two leaders discussed the importance of building peace bridges across the border, the president of Pakistan said in a tweet.

A special Air Force aircraft, which has to fly to Wuhan in China for the evacuation of Indians, is standing at Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's upcoming visit to India, the ''Howdy Modi'' team on Saturday (local time) extended its best wishes to organisers of ''Namaste Trump'' event in Ahmedabad.

Thieves ran away with an ATM machine of Central Bank of India which had Rs 19 lakh in it in Punjab's Ambala, police said on Saturday.

Expressing disappointment over the Congress' poor performance in the Delhi Assembly polls, party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Saturday said the time has come to identify strong leaders in the party.

Lucknow University is all set to become the first varsity in the country to launch a certificate and diploma course on "garbha sanskar" from the new academic session.

The decomposed bodies of a 35-year-old online trader, his wife and minor son and daughter were found on Saturday in a house in Taloja area of Navi Mumbai, police said.

After massive outrage over his "15-crore (Muslims) will prove stronger than the 100-crore majority (Hindus)" comment, AIMIM former legislator from Maharashtra, Waris Pathan, on Saturday withdrew his controversial statement, saying he had no intentions to hurt the sentiments of any community.