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While the Maharashtra government is planning to bring in an Act banning naming of liquor shops after gods and goddesses, there is no such proposal to bring in a similar Act in Telangana. (Representational image)

Odisha seals 1167 liquor outlets, likely to lose Rs 1200 crore

Apart from revenue loss, a large number of people also apprehend loss of jobs due to closure of such liquor shops.

3 April 2017 7:14 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, center, arrives at the Bamrauli airport. (Photo: AP)

Misconceptions' due to my saffron-clad look: Yogi Adityanath

UP CM said that those insulting India's traditions in the name of secularism are feeing threatened after he assumed...

3 April 2017 7:11 PM IST

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu congratulates his son Nara Lokesh after he took charge as MLC at the Council on Thursday. (Photo: DC)

Naidu expands AP cabinet, Lokesh gets IT; no Muslim minister included

In the state council's maiden reorganisation, 5 incumbent ministers were dropped to include Lokesh and 4 other MLAs.

3 April 2017 6:53 PM IST

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. (Photo: AFP)

Will consider making idli my favourite breakfast: Malaysian PM

The Prime Minister also said that Malaysia is home to the largest Indian population outside India.

3 April 2017 6:39 PM IST

Youth who pelt stones in J&K are in 'pain and distress': Mehbooba...

Terming stone-pelting a serious issue, Mufti said that the restlessness and unemployment youth face in the state is her...

3 April 2017 6:15 PM IST

Iraqs parliament on Saturday voted to ban the sale, import and production of alcohol. (Photo: AFP)

After SC order, bar owners and hoteliers turn to state govts for...

The owners have alleged that the order would result in massive unemployment and financial loss to the state exchequer.

3 April 2017 5:53 PM IST

Delhi University. (Photo: PTI/File)

Six DU colleges among India's top 10 in HRD ministry's ranking

The list has been prepared on basis of a survey of general degree' colleges under the National Institutional Ranking...

3 April 2017 5:40 PM IST

Students gather on Marina in support of farmers on Wednesday.(Photo: DC)

Coimbatore: TNAU students express solidarity with agitating farmers

They also raised slogans against the Centre's nod for the Hydro Carbon project at Neduvasal despite opposition from the...

3 April 2017 5:32 PM IST

The CRPF jawans were on their way to Srinagar for election duty for Lok Sabha bypolls scheduled to be held on April 9. (Photo: Habib Naqash)

J&K: CRPF jawan killed, 5 hurt in militant attack; minor girl among...

The CRPF jawans were on their way to Srinagar for duty in connection with the upcoming Lok Sabha bypolls.

3 April 2017 4:35 PM IST

Union HRD minster Prakash Javadekar. (Photo: PTI)

JNU got ranked, but not for Afzal Guru slogans: Education Minister

Last year in the specific list of universities ranking, JNU was at number three and this year it has climbed to number...

3 April 2017 4:12 PM IST

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel. (Photo: PTI)

Right To Inform or Right To Intimidate? Congress asks Modi

There are reports that the govt intends to bring changes in the RTI norms, by bringing in a word limit for applications...

3 April 2017 3:50 PM IST

The National Green Tribunal of Southern Zone at Chennai, headed by Justice M.S. Nambiar, has restrained the Telangana state government from proceeding any further with the first phase of the Palamuru Ranga Reddy Lift Irrigation Scheme.

NGT declines to modify SC order on BS-III vehicles

The Supreme Court on March 29 had imposed ban on sale and registration of vehicles, which are not BS-IV compliant in...

3 April 2017 3:48 PM IST