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The crop assessment report is expected by March 25 after which the relief package will be decided.

According to HRD ministry sources, one of the options on the table could also be an improvement exam, on which a broader consensus has to be evolved.

Six more persons have succumbed to the H1N1 virus in last 24 hours in parts of Rajasthan, raising the death toll to 397 this year, an official said on Thursday.

Yet another incident that has left the nation shocked is the gang rape of the 72-year-old nun in West Bengal.

Out of the 36 acts proposed to be repealed, four were principal acts and others were amendments to the various acts.

The woman was an inmate of Charandas ashram, which is holding the annual Gopinath Mela since March 16.

"We have initiated a lot of steps which I cannot count.... But the fact remains that the number of cases registered with rape charges is increasing, and it is a very deep concern for the government," Minister of State for Home Affairs Kirien Rijiju said.

Inaugurating the new FM transmitter for Vividh Bharati service in Mumbai on Monday, the minister said the Government intends to cover the whole country through FM service.

73-year-old Burman, who was present in the court on Monday, is facing prosecution in a complaint filed by IT Department alleging that he was holding foreign bank accounts which he had not disclosed in his income tax returns and there were undisclosed depo...

The data compared with a 0.70 per cent year-on-year fall forecast by economists in a poll and a provisional 0.39 per cent decline in January.

India is regarded as a humongous laboratory for sociological experiments by many researchers.

The complainant stated that the accused fragmented the cross and installed the statue of Hanuman and a flag depicting Lord Ram and threatened to kill him.

A teenager girl allegedly committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after she had an altercation with a woman, police said on Sunday.

The research programme, which will be a fully funded one, is likely to be started from the next academic session.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry had also issued an advisory to all television channels against airing the documentary.

The agreement as well as a task force to implement it were announced after a meeting between Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in Colombo.