Trump did not reiterate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to intervene — a clear indication of a back-pedal from his claim last month. This sets the stage for a possible meeting between Modi and Trump at the G-7 summit meeting in France between August 24 and 26.

“One is hopeful that normalcy will be restored soon and by the time the festive season sets in, some of the risk averseness should taper off,” Parekh said at the Annual General Meeting of HDFC.

People are queueing up at petrol pumps, outside grocery shops and ATMs, to stock up on supplies fearing the unknown.

The BJP gave the meeting a miss. Later, a delegation led by Mehbooba Mufti met the Governor and expressed concern about the situation in the Valley. Malik, in turn, informed them that there were serious and credible terror threats to the Yatra.

In a move that will significantly reduce the construction cost of projects, it has proposed slashing of various premiums that the builders have to pay for availing additional buildable area or floor space index (FSI) for their projects, said sources.

In 2016, Adeeb, one of the richest and influential politicians of the Maldives, was sentenced to 15 years in jail for allegedly plotting to assassinate the then President Abdulla Yameen.

An industry source confirmed that the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has taken up this amendment with the government and has requested it to have a relook.

A five-judge Constitution Bench will review the report Friday to take a call whether to continue with the mediation effort or commence daily hearing of the appeals against the Allahabad High Court September 30, 2010 verdict.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s move comes just months before the Assembly polls are expected to be held in Delhi.

Industry players say there is pressure on NBFCs on account of a liquidity squeeze since the fallout of the IL&FS crisis in September 2018, and that has led to customers finding it difficult to fund their purchase.

India said it was “evaluating” the proposal and would respond through diplomatic channels.

If there was hesitation in the BJP on Sengar’s expulsion, the reason was political, and a divide within its state unit over caste affiliations. Sengar is a Thakur, a community to which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath too belongs.

Family first responders, Confidentiality is “sacred to the programme”, said officers. “Even today our neighbours are not aware that my son went through a counselling session for a month. It was that secret,” said his father.

In districts close to the Bangladesh border — where the share of Muslims in the population is high — the exclusion percentage was lower, while in other districts it was comparatively higher.

The Supreme Court Thursday transferred all cases related to the matter from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi, while ordering interim compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the victim and CRPF security cover for her, the family and their lawyer.

It all began when Jabalpur-based Amit Shukla complained to Zomato about how the service had “allocated a non-Hindu rider” to deliver his order.

Much of the programme is under wraps so The Indian Express spoke to several officers who run it, individuals who were put through it and their families to piece together the story of how police turned counsellors working with a hastily put-together roadmap with a clearly defined goal.

The last time the strength was increased was a decade ago in 2009 when the number of judges in the top court was increased to 31 (including the Chief Justice) from 26.

Siddhartha’s body was taken to Wenlock Hospital in Mangalore for a post mortem and was later transported to his native Chattanahalli village in the coffee district of Chikamagalur for the last rites.

The BCCI has been at loggerheads with the government for several years for not signing up with the National Anti Doping Agency, an autonomous body mandated to keep sports clean.

Listing the Unnao matter for Thursday, CJI Gogoi, heading a bench with Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, remarked that it was “unfortunate” that the woman’s July 12 letter did not reach him earlier.

Arun Singh is the block pramukh of the Nawabganj panchayat samiti in Unnao. His father-in-law Ranvendra Singh, who is an MLA from the Hussainganj constituency in Fatehpur, is UP Minister of State for Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research.

As the Unnao woman fights for life on ventilator support, with doctors saying she is still critical with “vitals showing some improvement, which is hard to define”, her family is caught between two cremations, her recovery and a police case.

Hours before his disappearance was reported, Siddhartha called his personal staff at the company head office in Bengaluru and informed them about a letter to be disseminated.