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The national highways to be inaugurated include four-laning of Lucknow-Sultanpur section on NH-56, Kursi Road-Ayodhya Road section of Lucknow ring road, and Ghaghra Bridge to Budhanpur section on NH-233.

The Kerala Catholic Bishop’s Council said the bill was prepared on a false pretext and had written to the law reforms commission after the draft was put up on the panel’s website inviting suggestions.

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Contracts given to different firms will now be centralized by National Building Construction Corporation. The SP has attacked BJP for favoring capitalists in this move.

The CEC said the party representatives and public at large have full faith in ECI that it would fulfil its constitutional mandate to conduct free and fair elections in the state.

A total of 38 people, including local BJP and Bajrang Dal leaders, were arrested for the violence that broke out in Bulandshahr, leading to the killing of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh and villager Sumit Singh.

It is the fourth such bid by India at the UN in the last 10 years to list Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh asked opposition leaders to go to Pakistan and find out how many terrorists were killed in Balakot.

The protest led to termination of eight trains, including New Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi Express, and diversions of 24 trains, officials said.

The Patthargarhi movement, named after the symbolic act of placing a stone outside a village with an inscription declaring self-rule, had reached fever pitch last year.

While India has been able to marginally reduce the infants infected from Diphtheria, Tetanus and Measles, the cases of Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Pertussis and Diarrhoea have only magnified.

The PM, who is on a visit to Gujarat, also said that the government aims to empower the society to conduct more and more social works.

The economic cost of exposure to air pollution from crop residual burning stands at USD 30 billion or nearly Rs 2 lakh crore annually for the three north Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi alone.

The accused had allegedly been pestering the woman with his proposal for the past six months, but she had spurned him.

The petitioner, while working as secretary-in-charge of the Primary Agricultural Co-operative Bank in Vellore district in 1991, had misappropriated funds running into several lakhs of rupees.

The TRS working president also hit out at Prime Minister Modi for going ahead with his political programme and speeches even after the Pulwama attack and subsequent IAF strikes.