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Basava Jayanthi sees people offering prayers to Lord Basaveshwar in temples whileLingayat committees organise various events celebrating the day. People also exchange sweets and greetings on Basava Jayanthi.

Akshay Tritiya, or Akha Teej means eternal in Sanskrit and ‘Tritiya’ means ‘third.' It also signifies endlessness.

Sushma Swaraj said she is looking into the safe release of the sailors and has taken up the matter with Indian high commissioner.

The agency has booked Francis CX posted as Customs Havildar at the Cochin International Airport for allegedly helping to smuggle the gold having a market value of Rs 1.01 crore

A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepka Gupta also issued notices on the plea filed by two AIADMK MLAs V T Kalaiselvan and E Rathinasabapathy.

The Lok Sabha Polls 2019 will see a whopping 8.4 crore citizens exercise their voting right for the first time.

R Parasuram, a 1978-batch IAS (retired) officer, was appointed as the chief secretary of the state on April 30, 2012. His tenure was extended by six months, till September 2013, beyond the date of his superannuation on March 31, 2013.

The shelling and firing from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir's Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch and Keri sector in Rajouri started around 11.00 hours.

The deceased were identified as 18-year-old Somnath Mahato and 19-year-old Abantika and were both school students.

The IAF pilot, who was captured by Pakistan in February, is seen addressing other members of the Air Force in the clip and engaging in friendly conversation with them.

As the extremely severe pre-monsoon storm battered eight districts along the sea in Odisha on May 3, the capital city was left paralysed and enveloped in darkness like a proverbial ghost town.

US President Donald Trump in his South Asia speech in 2017 encouraged India to play a greater role in Afghanistan's economic development

Jayant Sinha had earlier triggered a controversy by felicitating and posing with the six accused after they were released on bail.

As the cyclone rages on its north-eastern course, visuals are emerging of the devastation that is being wrought by the "extremely severe cyclonic storm".

The baby was born at 11.03 am in the railway hospital in Mancheswar, barely five km from the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar.

In several videos doing rounds on social media, several showed the impact of the powerful gales and heavy rain after cyclone Fani hit around 10 a.m.