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The Trump administration has no plans to cap H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, the State Department said on Thursday.

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday told a court in Mumbai that the IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN), a subsidiary of the crisis-hit IL&FS Group, alone has allegedly laundered over Rs 5,000 crore of shareholder funds.

The Tihar Jail has inaugurated a semi-open prison complex for its women inmates along with a beauty parlour and fashion lab on Thursday, officials said.

Complaints were filed against a little-known right-wing organisation on Thursday for allegedly assaulting a group of Muslim men in Assam and forcing them to utter slogans "Jai Shri Ram" and "Pakistan Murdabad" on Tuesday.

With Tamil Nadu facing a severe water crisis, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's office on Thursday claimed it had offered to supply 20 lakh litres of drinking water to its neighbouring state, however the Tamil Nadu chief minister's office declined, saying, "at present, not required."

Amid rising tensions between the US and Iran as well as recent incidents related to maritime security, the Navy has deployed its warships in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to reassure the Indian vessels operating and transiting in the region, it said on Thursday.

Former Union law minister M Veerappa Moily mocked the "One Nation, One Election" idea on Thursday, saying it was akin to fixing the human lifespan.

The Maharashtra government has decided to transfer land titles of farmers who have committed suicide to their widows with an aim to empower them.

China on Thursday hoped India won't be influenced by the US and take an independent judgment on Huawei after Washington told New Delhi that it would act against Indian firms found supplying American origin products to the Chinese telecom giant.

A group of drunk men allegedly attacked a crew shooting for a web series in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai. Actress Mahie Gill and the crew, who was shooting at the location, also alleged the police watched as the incident unfolded and demanded money from them to release their equipment later.

Altogether 427 tourists were evacuated from North Sikkim on Thursday, four days after they got stranded in the district as torrential rain damaged road infrastructure, an official said.

A local court Thursday granted custody of lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar to the CBI till June 23 after the agency said there was a possibility of Goa headquarters of right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha having a connection with the murder of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar.

All the Indian missions across the world have been asked to celebrate the International Day of Yoga in a grand manner and a video message of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been sent to all embassies for screening at the beginning of the yoga protocol, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.

The Border Security Force (BSF) Thursday recovered five kilograms of heroin worth Rs 25 crore near the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir, foiling an attempt by the drug traffickers to smuggle the consignment into the country.

The Jammu and Kashmir government Thursday approved the reservation (second amendment) bill incorporating 103rd amendment of the Indian constitution to provide 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections in jobs and educational institutions.