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Government has notified that export of all varieties of onions will be allowed only on Letter of Credit (LC) subject to a Minimum Export Price (MEP) of USD 850 F.O.B Metric Ton till further orders. 

A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in Bombay High Court seeking to postpone forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. The PIL stated that  40% of voters in the state have been affected by floods & drought. 

#BREAKING: Odd-Even scheme is back in Delhi from 4th-15th November, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced. 

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The Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Nehal Modi, brother of main accused Nirav Modi, the main accused in the USD 2 billion PNB scam case 

The Interpol has issued a Red Corner Notice (RCN) against Nehal Modi, brother of main accused Nirav Modi, the main accused in the USD 2 billion PNB scam case.

Nehal Deepak Modi was born in Antwerp, Belgium and he knows languages such as English, Gujarati and Hindi, according to the RCN.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre on a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act 2019 that criminalises 'triple talaq'. The court order came on a fresh petition filed by the Muslim Advocates Association.

DMK President MK Stalin said: "Subashree has died due to negligence of government and inefficient police officers. Illegal banners have taken yet another life. How many more lives will be lost to power hungry&anarchist rule?"

Subashree, 23, working in a software company was run over by a water tanker as she fell down on the road when an illegal life-size hoarding put up by a ruling AIADMK functionary fell on her on Thursday READ MORE

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday took Congress leader DK Shivakumar to Tughlak Road police station in Delhi. Siddaramaiah along with Shivakumar's brother, DK Suresh and others arrived at RML hospital to meet the Karnataka minister. However, they were not allowed to meet Shivakumar.

Former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexual misconduct by a law student, has been questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case.

Late on Thursday, the SIT interrogated the BJP leader at the reserve police lines here in Uttar Pradesh. Chinmayanand was accompanied by his lawyer Om Singh.

Earlier on Thursday, SIT had recorded the statement of SS Law College Principal Sanjay Kumar Baranwal and Secretary Avanish Misra.

Eleven people drowned when the boat carrying them along with a Ganesh idol capsized in Lower Lake of Bhopal, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday in Khatlapura on the banks of the Lower Lake when a group of people were taking the Ganesh idol for immersion, Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Bhopal, Irshad Wali told PTI.READ MORE 

Pakistan’s Minister for Interior, Ijaz Ahmed Shah on Wednesday confirmed that Pakistan spent billions of rupees on terror organisations like Jamat-Ud-Dawa (JUD).

Pakistan’s ministers like Sheikh Rasheed and Fawad have been calling for ‘violence’ in the Kashmir Valley in the last one month. Multiple hate speeches have come out from the Pak minister since he Modi government scrapped Article 370 on August 5 READ MORE 

The debate took place as the Democratic Party’s leading candidates shared the debate stage for the first time in a prime-time showdown displaying sharply opposing notions of electability in the party’s presidential nomination fight.

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India's economic growth is "much weaker" than expected, the IMF said on Thursday, attributing the reasons to corporate and environmental regulatory uncertainty and lingering weaknesses in some non-bank financial companies.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July projected a slower growth rate for India in 2019 and 2020, a downward revision of 0.3 per cent for both the years, saying its GDP will now grow respectively at the rate of 7 and 7.2 per cent reflecting a weaker-than expected outlook for domestic demand.