Agartala: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Biplab Kumar Deb took charge as Tripura Chief Minister on Saturday. Biplab Deb yesterday took oath as the Chief Minister; while, Jishnu Dev Burman sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National General Secretary

New Delhi: The Goods and Services (GST) Council in its 26th meeting on Saturday is likely to simplify tax returns, sources from Ministry of Finance told ANI.

The council, chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is also expected to discuss the extension of 3B returns, and the current position of revenue generated

New Delhi: The government on Friday stated that 16,65,82,421 Aadhaar cards have been linked with Permanent Account Number (PAN) as on March 5.

Furthermore, as on March 2, 8779.65 lakh current accounts and savings accounts have been linked with the unique identification number, and a total of 6811 Aadhaar enrolment

New York: Popular photo and video sharing apps, Instagram and Snapchat have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features, after users saw an extremely racist GIF as an option to add to their images.

"As soon as we were made aware, we removed the GIF and have disabled Giphy until we can be sure that th

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, seeking time to meet them for resolving the issue of sealing of shops in the national capital.

In his letter to the prime minister, he stressed on bringing a Bill in Parliament to remove

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan and inspected a guard of honour here on Saturday.

President Macron, who was accompanied by his wife Brigitte Macron, met with his counterpart Ram Nath Kovind, his wife Savita Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi respectively.

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Usually busy TDP supremo and Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, for the last couple of days seen unusually busy with party MPs and 'think tank'.  Reason: How to wriggle out from the mess he landed himself as far as 'Special status" demand was concerned.

This was in the

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The standard of living conditions of Muslims in slums of Hyderabad is said to beworse than other communities, according to the latest study conducted by Southern Regional Center, Council for Social Development.

The comparative analysis was based on information collected from residents

Washington: US President Donald Trump today threatened to impose "reciprocal tax" on countries like China and India if they do not match America's tariff.

Trump has, in recent days, spoken a number of times about the 50 per cent duty that India levies on high-end motorbikes that Harley-Davidson, an A

Geneva: India has lambasted Pakistan for harbouring the United Nations-designated terrorists like Hafiz Saeed.

Speaking at the 37th session of UN human rights council (UNHRC), Mini Devi Kumam, Second Secretary, India's Permanent Mission, said, "In gross violation of UN Security Council resolution 1267, th