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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

Gujarat minister Jitu Vaghani said the newly formed five-member committee of ministers met the protesting Asha workers at Gandhinagar on Tuesday and convinced them to withdraw their agitation.

The resignation has been accepted and forwarded to the governor, said a statement from the Chief Minister's Office.

A day after two dramatic court hearings in the Supreme Court and the Karnataka high court, there were starkly different scenes at the Idgah maidans of Hubballi and Bengaluru, with Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations held amid tight security in the former, and heavy police presence but no event in the latter.