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Panchayat representatives will visit every household in the village putting up nameplates with names and e-mail IDs of the daughters.

Modi is scheduled to travel from July 6 to 13 to five Central Asian countries and Russia.

"To resign or not to resign is left to him. Government cannot do anything within the purview of the law on the issue," he told reporters in Ballari, when questioned about the demand for the exit of Rao.

Renu Raj works at a hospital in Kollam in Kerala and she hails from Kottayam. She secured the second rank in the exam in her first attempt.

SECC reveals stark figures, nearly 75% households in rural India earn below Rs 5000, 40% households landless, 35% illiterate.

Alleging that there is a little difference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav when it comes to offering land rights to public, the outfit said its members were arrested on "fake" charges and misbehaved with.

A committee, formed by the AAP government to bring out a white paper on Delhi's power sector, has recommended removal of the Chairman and members of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Critics say tougher anti-beef laws discriminate against Muslims, Christians and lower-caste Hindus who rely on the cheap meat for protein. Butchers and cattle traders, many of them Muslim, say the push threatens thousands of jobs.

Earlier, sources had said that the Karnataka Lokayukta targeted as many as 150 officials, including IAS and IPS officers. They were asked for money to prevent raids.

As many as 884 people, many of them minor girls, went missing every month on an average from Mumbai during the last decade, says a Mumbai Police report.

The benchmark Sensex rose over 100 points to trade above the 28,000 mark in early trade on Friday as value-based buying in consumer durables, healthcare, power, capital goods and auto sectors took the recovery forward.

Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij today directed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department to issue notices to 19 producers of canned food and beverages.

The young man was a key witness in the 2008 Delhi blast case in which more than 60 people were killed. He was awarded by the Vice President Hamid Ansari for his bravery.

About 4,600 hectares of farmland, including land with crops, were washed away in other districts as well, including 1,300 hectares in Valsad, 1,622 hectares in Bharuch and 1,700 hectares in Gir-Somnath district.

The government has asked ACB's Additional Commissioner S S Yadav, backed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, to supervise the main work including investigation and functioning of the anti-graft body, days after the Delhi High Court refused to restrain Meen...

A 30-year-old woman, lodged in Tihar jail tried to commit suicide by hanging herself.