The month of August ended with 41.6mm of rainfall for Delhi, translating to a deficit of 83% from the normal of 247.7mm for the month, making it the Capital’s driest August in 16 years, data from India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed on Wednesday.

According to a CCEA notification, the Centre can now procure up to 40% of pigeon pea (tur), black gram (urad) and plain lentil (masur) grown by farmers, up from 25% earlier, under its price support scheme (PSS) if market rates of these commonly consumed items fall below minimum support prices (MSP).

India’s GDP grew at 13.5% in the quarter ending June 2022, much lower than the 16.2% forecast by the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and the 15.5% projection by a Bloomberg poll of economists.

As the public sector has contracted, there has been no other good employer that has emerged to take its place despite the economic expansion of manufacturing and services sectors.

Aam Aadmi Party legislators told the CBI had accepted the complaint after nearly two hours of dharna by AAP MLAs, outside the agency headquarters.

Earlier this month, India raised the issue of increased Chinese air activity close to LAC in eastern Ladakh with the Chinese side at a meeting and asked it to adhere to existing confidence-building measures that bar fighter aircraft from flying within 10 km of the border.

Seema Patra, believed to be in her 60s, is the wife for a former bureaucrat. She was the Jharkhand convenor of the BJP-led Centre's ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign.

The ED charge sheet said Jacqueline Fernandez was aware of Sukesh Chandrasekhar’s criminal antecedents but continued to receive gifts and money from January 2021 till his arrest by the Delhi Police in July

On the morning of August 22, 42-year-old Sonali Phogat, her 39-year-old manager Sudhir Sangwan, and his 33-year-old associate Sukhwinder Singh, landed in Goa. By the next morning though, Phogat — actor, fledgling politician, and Instagram star — was dead.