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Tokyo:  Yoshihide Suga (71) was elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday, making him all but certain to become prime minister of the world's third-largest economy...

New Delhi: The 18-day monsoon session of Parliament, which began today, is different this time. All parliamentarians have been given COVID-19 kits to protect them from the pandemic, reported NDTV....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has been able to steer the state’s economy quite well, recording a surplus budget (negative fiscal deficit) in the first quarter of the current financial year...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated an LPG pipeline project and bottling plants in the poll-bound Bihar via video-conferencing. The projects include: The 193-km long Durgapur-Banka section...

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Thursday that the Union government will provide equitable and inclusive education for all. He also said that a 'Beti Bachao...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday announced a Rs 300 crore special package for livelihood support for the farmers affected by recent floods. Standing crops were damaged in the...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday inaugurated the Doorstep Banking Services by public sector banks (PSBs) at a ceremony to felicitate best-performing banks based on EASE Banking Reforms...

India now has the second highest number of people infected with COVID-19 after overtaking Brazil. The Congress party has seized the opportunity to castigate the government on this front, blaming...

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Finance, in its latest instructions on expenditure management, informed all ministries/departments including attached offices/subordinate offices and autonomous bodies that no printing/publishing of books, publications,...

Moscow: India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Moscow. But despite their two-and-a-half hour...