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At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (forex), the domestic currency opened lower at 69.11 a dollar and gained to touch the day's high of 68.72. It finally settled at 68.83 per dollar, up 13 paise over its previous close.

With the prime minister often projecting himself as the country's 'chowkidar', Rahul Gandhi had coined the 'chowkidar chor hai' (watchman is thief) slogan to allege corruption in the Rafale deal, a charge denied by the government.

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and NC patron Farooq Abdullah jointly told the media while the Congress will contest the Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats, National Conference will fight from Srinagar.

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and NC patron Farooq Abdullah jointly told the media while the Congress will contest the Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats, National Conference will fight from Srinagar

India boycotted the first Belt and Road Forum in 2017 after protesting to Beijing over the controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which is being laid through PoK overriding New Delhi's sovereignty concerns.

The blockbuster "Call of Duty" franchise is coming to Android and iOS devices with a public beta scheduled for mid-2019 and a possible battle royale mode teased in its trailer.

Sumalatha has acted in hundreds of Kannada, Tamil and Telugu movies. Nikhil has played the lead in two Kannada movies, Jaguar and Seetharama Kalyana.

India has seen that whenever dynastic politics has been powerful, institutions have taken a severe beating, PM Modi wrote in his blog.

Actor Rajkummar Rao and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap have come out in support of actor Savi Sidhu, who is now working as a security guard in Mumbai due to financial crisis.

The Congress' sixth list includes nine candidates, seven from Maharashtra and two from Kerala. With this, the party has so far released names of 146 candidates.

Besides the eight BJP MLAs, a legislator of the Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA) and 19 other saffron party leaders also joined the NPP.

According to sources, the AAP wanted to contest on three seats in Punjab, two in Haryana and five in Delhi.

The appointment has come through five years after the Lokpal Act was notified for effecting a panel of ombudsmen to look into cases of corruption and maladministration by public servants.

The Front had already announced the names of 25 candidates last week and Tuesday’s tally took the total number to 38 out of the 42 seats which are up for grabs in Bengal.

Merkel, asked whether she was ready to offer British Prime Minister Theresa May a new Brexit deal, said she 'noted with interest' a ruling by the speaker of parliament that May must change her twice-defeated divorce deal to put it to a third vote.

The SP chief rebuffed claims that leaving 38 seats for alliance partner BSP would weaken his party.