Angela Merkel said: “I am being accompanied on this trip by a business delegation... many medium-sized business owners who have to learn how to find their way through the bureaucratic labyrinth.

RCEP is an umbrella trade agreement involving 16 countries, which include 10 ASEAN countries and China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India. Once concluded, this promises to be the biggest free-trade zone in the world.

The farmer, Dharma Jadhav, a resident of Zirwapada in Dahanu taluka, was rushed to a local hospital but he was declared dead on arrival, the police said. No suicide note was found on the deceased.

On November 7, a district court in the Israeli capital will hear arguments on why the country’s Ministry of Defence needs to cancel Pegasus-developer NSO Group’s export licence.

In a separate interaction with the German media, visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would discuss the issue of Kashmir with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The conflicting claims provide no clarity on the the privacy breach sequence and the nature of notifications between government authorities and WhatsApp.

The elections have been announced within ten days of poll results from Maharashtra and Haryana, where the BJP failed to match its Lok Sabha performance.

“A total of 131 workers who had gone to Kashmir are being brought back to West Bengal with the help of the state government. They are from Murshidabad, Dinajpur and Malda,” Banerjee told reporters.

Gehlot was speaking at The Indian Express Idea Exchange Friday even as the Election Commission announced the schedule for Assembly elections in Jharkhand.

The National Capital has been in the grip of a severe pollution crisis since last week, with the air quality index breaching the ‘severe’ mark of 400 to touch 484 Friday.

Tejas Express is proposed to halt at Mumbai Central, Borivali, Vapi, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand Junction and Ahmedabad.

The Ministry of Home Affairs, in a statement, said “attempts to malign the Government of India for the reported breach are completely misleading”.

Thirty years after the BJP’s resolution to build the temple, the issue emerged as an irritant between the party and RSS barely six months ahead of the announcement of 2019 general elections, according to sources briefed about the events.

On July 9 last year, the Supreme Court had dismissed the pleas of three of the convicts — Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay — seeking review of its 2017 judgment upholding the capital punishment given to them by the Delhi High Court and the trial court.

On Thursday, The Indian Express reported that Facebook-owned WhatsApp confirmed it was aware that journalists and human rights activists in India were targeted for surveillance and it had contacted each one of them.

The “total employment during 2011-12 and 2017-18 declined by 9 million”. Also,close to 2.6 million jobs were lost every year between 2011-12 and 2017-18.

Speaking at The Indian Express Idea Exchange programme, Rijiju said, “Once we come out with a proper refined sports code, everything will come under it, including cricket."

Sources in the NSCN (I-M) claimed the deadlock over demands ended after the government agreed to allow the use of a Naga flag only at cultural events.

The government’s decision comes despite the Revenue Department insisting that UPOR was working effectively in Shimoga.

“The Indian government officially announced the establishment of so-called Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory and Ladakh Union Territory which included some of China’s territory into its administrative jurisdiction," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said in Beijing.

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the most senior judge in the Supreme Court after CJI Ranjan Gogoi who retires on November 17, spoke to The Indian Express on his priorities, ideas and the road ahead.

The BJP, according to sources, is not ruling out conceding 13-15 ministerial posts to the Sena. This will leave the BJP with 27-29 posts.

The Punjab government has, meanwhile, announced several measures to sensitise farmers. Nodal officers have been deputed in nearly 8,000 paddy growing villages across the state to spread awareness and keep an eye on post-harvest operations.

While New Delhi views this as an oblique reference to Pakistan meddling in Kashmir, Saudis interpret this as Iran’s interference in their affairs.