India’s real gross domestic product grew by 7.4% between January and March.

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Plastic pellets washing up ashore pose an immediate threat while hazardous cargo, including chemicals and oil, could be absorbed into the ecosystem.

The number of registered cases of fraud fell to 23,953 from 36,060 in the previous financial year.

Debabrata Saikia accused the Assam Police of carrying out the crackdown in violation of constitutional rights and due process.

But the Labour party wants to assure voters who are more concerned about immigration than university finances.

This is likely the first case where a Muslim man has been acquitted of charges under the state’s stringent anti-conversion law after a trial.

Author Subi Taba hints at the animosity of harming nature, replaying the same theme in many other stories where nature eventually haunts the hunter.

On Raj Khosla’s birth centenary, here are two interviews he did with filmmaker and writer Nasreen Munni Kabir in the 1980s.

KM Panikker’s biography, a history of Rabindranath Tagore’s association with Tripura, an examination of various partitions in Asia, and more.

Lashkar e Taiba is crucial for Pakistan domestically while Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal helps it negotiate with the West to survive, said scholar Christine Fair.

The airline operates two aircraft on a damp lease agreement for direct flights from Delhi and Mumbai to Istanbul.

Intensely amorous love verses set in the Carnatic mode, padams and javalis are returning to the spotlight after decades.

Saying that the process would continue, the chief minister claimed that the action was being taken as per directives issued by the Supreme Court.

He was involved with efforts to protect wild tigers, particularly in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore National Park, for nearly five decades.

‘The novel is a love-hate letter to Delhi. I hope that enough of the love is evident,’ said the author of ‘The Tiger’s Share’ in an interview.

Five deaths were reported after landslides in Assam’s Kamrup, nine persons died in Arunachal Pradesh, two in Meghalaya, and one each in Mizoram and Nagaland.

The police claimed there were no legal claimants of the dead insurgents, despite their families moving court to secure the bodies.

Thapar dedicated nearly five decades of his life to the protection of wild tigers, particularly in Ranthambore National Park. He died on May 30 at age 73.

General Anil Chauhan, however, said that Pakistan’s claims of having shot down six Indian Air Force fighter jets was ‘absolutely incorrect’.