In the advisory to all Chief Secretaries, the Jal Shakti Ministry said: “As you are aware, positive behaviour change for adoption of safe sanitation practices as well as ensuring that no one is left behind, are key to achieve the goal of the Swachh Bharat Mission.”

“We need interoperable QRs in every place. I seriously feel that if you are big turnover person, you have to mandatorily provide a digital payment option,” Joint Secretary Gopalakrishnan S said at the Data Security Council of India summit in Delhi.

Raut said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case against Pawar is generating sympathy for him and galvanising the cadre of a party on the decline.

A few Indian diplomats at the Permanent Mission at the UN were, however, present during Khan’s speech, who spoke 30 minutes after Modi. India is expected to exercise its right to reply.

Sources said one example that has come to the fore in the investigation handed over to the CBI by the BJP government in Karnataka is the alleged tapping of the phone of Nirmalananda Swami, an influential seer of the dominant Vokkaliga community.

"India has given world Buddh, not Yuddh... countries can’t confine themselves within boundaries," Modi said.

The Srinagar wing of J&K High Court has ordered its own inquiry into a habeas corpus petition filed by a relative of a detainee who claims he is a 14-year-old boy and has been detained under the stringent Public Safety Act.

CM Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly asserted that her TMC government will not let the NRC be conducted in the state. But this month, after the final NRC list was released in Assam on August 31, BJP leaders announced that the register will be applied in West Bengal.

Officials said the break-in was discovered by Income Tax security staff in the morning when they found locked cupboards broken in and ransacked — several files and papers were “lying in disarray” a member of the administration team employed in the building said.

The bank’s cosy relationship with realty firm HDIL goes much beyond this. PMC Bank virtually acted as the in-house banker of the company even when company was facing insolvency proceedings in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).

Softbank-backed Oyo Hotels and Homes, through its managed housing brand Oyo Life, announced Thursday a tie-up with IIT-Delhi to provide off-campus accommodation and another deal with the private Plaksha University

As the last rites of the children were conducted in Bhavkhedi, a group of OBC families watched from around 200 metres away. “We don’t participate. It has always been the case, it’s a tradition,’’ said an OBC elder.

Doubtful or ‘D’ voters are a category of voters in Assam whose citizenship is uncertain or under dispute. In 1997, the EC had introduced this at the time of revising the state’s voter list.

An Indian official, referring to Qureshi’s boycott and remark, said: “Such drama will not work. Pakistan has to create a conducive atmosphere for the SAARC process to go ahead.”

As per records, Mirza was taped accepting money from Narada news portal editor Mathew Samuel during a sting operation. During interrogation by the ED, which is probing the money trail into the case, Mirza accepted that he took cash from Samuel but as "donation" to an orphanage.

The 15,000-square-ft property, located in Kesarbaug society on Tandalja Vasna Road, was sold in August for Rs 6 crore.

It also states that the location would provide “ideal conditions for execution of NSG operations owing to presence of an operational international airport (to enable airlift) and adequate lines of communication in the close proximity”.

Many put up in hotels, militant fear keeps them away from home.

“We are rapidly modernising our cities, and equipping them with latest technology and citizen friendly infrastructure. Thus, if you want to invest in urbanisation, come to India,” PM Modi said.

SIT says extortion but admits it has no evidence of money changing hands

The SIT arrested the woman Wednesday, a day after she filed anticipatory bail in a local court of Shahjahanpur, in an extortion case filed by Chinmayanand’s lawyer Om Singh, in which three men were arrested on September 20.

Satish Dagar’s exit comes after HC gave CBI 4 months to wrap up probe. Dagar, who joined the agency in 1986, serves as Superintendent of Police in CBI’s anti-corruption unit III. He had also investigated the charges against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim.

Police have booked the two brothers under IPC Section 302 (murder) and Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. According to Collector Anugraha P, the village had earlier been declared open defecation free.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also said that following the Pulwama terror attack, India took great precautions and did not attack Pakistan or its army and targeted only terror training camps in Balakot.