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Up to 80 dilapidated Portuguese-era bridges in Goa will be repaired immediately, the public works department minister of the coastal state said today -- a year after two people died when a bridge collapsed in Goa. After the incident in May last year, the state government started checking the health of all Portuguese-era bridges for repairs.

The Karnataka government has disbanded the Bengaluru Vision Group whose members included Infosys founder NR Narayanamurthy and Wipro chairman Azim Premji. The state government issued an order on June 8 disbanding the group, which was set up in April 2016 by the previous Congress government

The government has formed a committee under former chief statistician TCA Anant to ensure transparency in jobs data calculation and presentation, the labour ministry has said. The labour bureau conducts two surveys on employment -- Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) and Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)

The Congress's floor leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge today said he would speak with party president Rahul Gandhi on filling the remaining six ministerial berths allocated to the party in the Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka

Arunachal Pradesh has been put on the aviation map of the country with the state's first commercial flight, carrying Chief Minister Pema Khandu and 24 other passengers, landing at Pasighat in the north-east state's East Siang district, 305 kilometres from state capital Itanagar.

The Delhi government has told bars not to play recorded music after residents at many areas complained of how noise from the watering holes disturbs their peace. Pubs can play only live music, the Delhi government has said, citing licence conditions that ban them from playing recorded music

The tourism ministry has proposed removing restrictions for foreigners who want to travel to Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Sikkim, minister of state for tourism Alphons KJ has said. The restrictions can be removed only if the home ministry and the defence ministry approve it

State-run Punjab National Bank has declined to give details of the audit that led to the detection of over Rs 13,000 crore fraud at the lender, citing a clause that bars any disclosure that may harm investigation

The Congress has sought an appointment with President Ram Nath Kovind on behalf of like-minded opposition parties to brief him about the Karnataka governor inviting the BJP to form government in the southern state, even though the assembly election ended in split verdict

The aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday proposed new rules on working hours and rest time for cabin crew to prevent airlines from making staffers work beyond duty hours. The draft norms give a maximum 22 hours of duty time for cabin crew on long-haul flight (over 16 hours or more)

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said if the Karnataka governor invited BJP to form the government, it would mean that he was "openly inviting horse-trading, corruption and defection in the parties."

India is looking to rely more on home-made technology to make defence hardware instead of relying on borrowed technology, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. India is one of the largest importers of arms in the world, she added

Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow

The clashes between two groups in Aurangabad last week that killed two people were "communal" and "pre-planned", the BJP's ally in Maharashtra Shiv Sena has said in its mouthpiece Saamana. The Shiv Sena criticised the home department, headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, over not appointing a senior police officer for Aurangabad, a city cons...

An uneasy calm prevailed today in this central Maharashtra city where two people were killed in clashes between two groups yesterday. The clash broke out over alleged selective disconnection of illegal water connections belonging to members of a particular community.

Up to 80 dilapidated Portuguese-era bridges in Goa will be repaired immediately, the public works department minister of the coastal state said today -- a year after two people died when a bridge collapsed in Goa. After the incident in May last year, the state government started checking the health of all Portuguese-era bridges for repairs.

The Karnataka government has disbanded the Bengaluru Vision Group whose members included Infosys founder NR Narayanamurthy and Wipro chairman Azim Premji. The state government issued an order on June 8 disbanding the group, which was set up in April 2016 by the previous Congress government

The government has formed a committee under former chief statistician TCA Anant to ensure transparency in jobs data calculation and presentation, the labour ministry has said. The labour bureau conducts two surveys on employment -- Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) and Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)

The Congress's floor leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge today said he would speak with party president Rahul Gandhi on filling the remaining six ministerial berths allocated to the party in the Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka

Arunachal Pradesh has been put on the aviation map of the country with the state's first commercial flight, carrying Chief Minister Pema Khandu and 24 other passengers, landing at Pasighat in the north-east state's East Siang district, 305 kilometres from state capital Itanagar.

The Delhi government has told bars not to play recorded music after residents at many areas complained of how noise from the watering holes disturbs their peace. Pubs can play only live music, the Delhi government has said, citing licence conditions that ban them from playing recorded music

The tourism ministry has proposed removing restrictions for foreigners who want to travel to Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Sikkim, minister of state for tourism Alphons KJ has said. The restrictions can be removed only if the home ministry and the defence ministry approve it

State-run Punjab National Bank has declined to give details of the audit that led to the detection of over Rs 13,000 crore fraud at the lender, citing a clause that bars any disclosure that may harm investigation

The Congress has sought an appointment with President Ram Nath Kovind on behalf of like-minded opposition parties to brief him about the Karnataka governor inviting the BJP to form government in the southern state, even though the assembly election ended in split verdict

The aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday proposed new rules on working hours and rest time for cabin crew to prevent airlines from making staffers work beyond duty hours. The draft norms give a maximum 22 hours of duty time for cabin crew on long-haul flight (over 16 hours or more)

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said if the Karnataka governor invited BJP to form the government, it would mean that he was "openly inviting horse-trading, corruption and defection in the parties."

India is looking to rely more on home-made technology to make defence hardware instead of relying on borrowed technology, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. India is one of the largest importers of arms in the world, she added

Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow

The clashes between two groups in Aurangabad last week that killed two people were "communal" and "pre-planned", the BJP's ally in Maharashtra Shiv Sena has said in its mouthpiece Saamana. The Shiv Sena criticised the home department, headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, over not appointing a senior police officer for Aurangabad, a city cons...

An uneasy calm prevailed today in this central Maharashtra city where two people were killed in clashes between two groups yesterday. The clash broke out over alleged selective disconnection of illegal water connections belonging to members of a particular community.