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The petition, which has challenged Section 4 of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, assumes significance in the case of Kashi and Mathura where two disputed mosques stand.

Water-logged streets are a common sight every monsoon across India, but in Mumbai, its most populous city, monsoons can often bring life to a standstill with flooding.

A senior diplomat says Nicholas Burns is too junior an official in the state department for a “future Indian PM aspirant” to interview on a public platform.

Kumar Rajesh Chandra, Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the force that guards the 1,751-km India-Nepal border, said the "altercation" was an "instantly generated local issue".

Radhakrishnan, presently Principal Secretary and Commissioner of Revenue Administration, has been posted as Principal Secretary to Health and Family Welfare Department, the order said.

Nicolas Burns said not just the governments of the US and India, but their societies were very closely intertwined and that is a great strength.

The WBDF has asked the West Bengal government to ensure healthcare institutions have a 24X7 real time digital system that shows availability of beds in hospital.

The theme of World Day Against Child Labour 2020 is 'COVID-19 - Protect children from child labour now, more than ever.'

Former students of National Law School of India University have used crowdfunding to charter ten flights for ferrying the most vulnerable migrants back to their homes across the country.

MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that last month India had taken an initiative to develop regional cooperation to control locusts and as part of this cooperation it has dispatched 20,000 litres of pesticide to Iran.

With the amendments in the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, he said the stock limit on non-perishable food items will be imposed if prices rise by 50 per cent.

The system will be launched by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

A senior official said other districts are likely to follow it after the government issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) in this regard on Tuesday.

Police said there was delay in the ambulance reaching the spot and also the ambulance staff declined to take him to the hospital saying they did not have PPE kits.

Speaking at the USD 110-billion group's cash cow TCS' annual general meeting, Chandrasekaran said the technology world is moving to work from home (WFH) and the country's largest software exporter will also follow the trend.

Full list of the top 20 law colleges in India ranked according to MHRD's NIRF 2020.