These patients, suffering from illnesses such as end-stage renal disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease and blood cancer, are denied treatment under AB-PMJAY since these illnesses are not among the 1,350 medical packages defined under the scheme and hence not covered. But they are also often deprived of benefits under the earlier RAN scheme since they are AB-PMJAY card holders.

This is the third time that PM Modi is addressing the Indian diaspora in the US after the event at Madison Square Garden in 2014 and San Jose in 2015, but this time, the scale is larger than the past two events.

The audience of 60-odd comprised the village priest, pradhan, the shopkeepers who had closed early for the day and Panghal’s relatives and friends.

Chinmayanand was produced before a local court, which sent him to 14 days judicial custody. The arrest comes days before an Uttar Pradesh Police special investigation team (SIT) was to submit a progress report to the Allahabad High Court, which is monitoring the case, on September 23.

The government further announced a rollback back of the higher surcharge on capital gains on sale of equity shares announced in this Budget for individuals, HUFs, Association of Persons (trusts).

These measures, estimated to result in a revenue loss of around Rs 1,500 crore a year, are expected to give a boost to the tourism and hospitality sectors ahead of the festive season. The decisions were taken at the Council’s 37th meeting.

The structural issues that need to be addressed are land and labour reforms, and what Rathin Roy, member of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor Council explained lucidly - products and services affordable to middle and lower income people.

The purported video footage, with a time stamp dated April 20, 2019, was released by the family of Rao’s daughter-in-law, M Sindhu Sarma. Rao served at the Andhra Pradesh and Madras High Courts, and retired in April 2017.

“I was severely thrashed, my hair was pulled, and I was punched and kicked,” Babul Supriyo said. “This is not expected from students of JU. If they have a problem with me coming here, they should have debated the matter,” he said.

This, effectively, reverses the BJP’s earlier stand on the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill moved by the UPA-II government.

Sitharaman said the thumb rule being used in such credit deployment activity is that for every old customer, banks should bring in five new customers. Banks will select these districts based on commercial potential.

Howdy, Modi! The Forum capped corporate donations at $100,000 and no single entity funded over 10-15% of the entire donation pool, Malani said. The top eight donors contributed roughly 30% of the total $2.4 million.

An Express Investigation: Tiger count is up but official photos show that one of seven could be a paper tiger photographed twice; in some cases even thrice; photos repeated, and photos repeated but shown as that of different tigers in the data set.

The GoM was set up by Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on March 2, 2016 to deliberate and recommend changes in the Motor Vehicles Act and the Central Motor Vehicles Rules. It submitted its recommendations in a series of interim reports after every meeting.

Seeking dismissal of the complaint as “no cognizable offence is made out” from its contents, police said it will abide by the court’s direction.

Little urgency has been shown by the High Court — each case is either in the stage of admission or has been listed for orders

While Pakistan has been trying to internationalise the ending of J&K’s special status under Article 370, and plans to raise it at the UNGA, India has maintained that it is an “internal matter”.

Addressing a public rally in Nashik to mark the conclusion of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s Mahajanadesh Yatra, Modi said development of every Kashmiris is his government’s commitment and pledge. “A violence-free Kashmir is our promise,” he added.

Chidambaram clarified that jail authorities had placed two-three chairs in the hall outside his cell. “I would sit with the warden. All the chairs were removed. For my sake, the warden is not given the chair.”

For instance, share prices of ITC Ltd, in which the government and its entities own 28.64 per cent stake, rose 1.03 per cent, or Rs 2.45 apiece, to close at Rs 239.60 apiece Wednesday.

In a statement, the Jharkhand Police said that in the first chargesheet, “opinion on the cause of death” was kept “reserved” in the viscera report.

“The name itself is National Register of Citizens, not National Register of Assam,” Amit Shah said, adding, "We are here to bring the NRC, and those who are excluded will be sent out of the country after due legal process."

At the same time, it said the parties were free to simultaneously explore a negotiated settlement to the centuries-old Ayodhya dispute through a mediation panel it had appointed.

Net direct tax collections during April 1-September 15 grew just 5% to Rs 4.4 lakh crore — against year’s target 17.3%. This below-than-expected growth in direct tax collections will muddy the government’s fiscal math