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Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru on the 130th birth anniversary of India's first Prime Minister. "Tributes to our former PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary," PM Modi tweeted this morning.

India has strongly condemned a fake letter circulating in Bangladesh's local media claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed it to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

As temperatures rise in a changing climate scenario, children born in India will be particularly vulnerable to a greater health burden of malnutrition, air pollution and deadly heat waves, according to a major new report published in The Lancet journal.

Ahead of a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board to decide whether to seek a review of the Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya case, Iqbal Ansari, the main litigant, said on Wednesday he has "not received any communication" from the AIMPLB in this connection.

Hours after a Delhi court extended P Chidambaram's judicial custody in the INX media money laundering case till November 27, his family said the treatment being given to him in Tihar jail for Crohn's disease is not satisfactory and he continues to lose weight due to "aggravation" of the disease.

The Supreme Court will announce verdicts on review petitions against its orders in two important cases today - entry of women in Sabarimala temple and the Rafale deal. In the Sabarimala case, a five-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, will deliver judgement on petitions seeking review of its September 2018 order that allowed menstruating women to enter the Ayyappa shrine in Kerala. The top court will also review its judgement in the Rafale deal that dismissed the petitions seeking an investigation into the alleged irregularities in the Rs 58,000 crore deal.

Happy Children's Day: Jawahar Lal Nehru laid the foundation of independent India as sovereign, socialist, secular and a democratic republic. For this, he is credited as the architect of modern India.

Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said the JDS is ready to support BJP rebel Sharath Bachegowda in upcoming by-poll in Hoskote constituency if he contested independently.

The second round of the 2+2 dialogue between India and the United States will take place on December 18.

India is the world's most "open and investment friendly" economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he wooed the BRICS business leaders, urging them to invest in the country and take advantage of its "limitless" possibilities and "countless" opportunities.

A video clip of Amethi District Magistrate (DM) Prashant Sharma's meeting with thefamily of BJP leader has gone viral on the social media, with the locals expressing anguish over the administration's alleged insensitivity.

Lawyers of all district courts in the national capital are likely to hold a march from Patiala house court to the Parliament House in continuation of their protest against the Tis Hazari court violence.

Students staging a protest in the JNU painted various messages for vice-chancellor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar inside the administration block of the university on Wednesday as they barged inside the building to talk to him about the hostel fee hike.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday gave the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) two weeks' more to file its response to the bail plea of Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman, relating to the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam cases, after the agency said it was about to file a charge sheet in the matter.

Children's Day is celebrated in the country each year on November 14, as a tribute to former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru who was born in 1889.