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The Civil Aviation Ministry acceded to the state's request to utilise other airports in Kerala, instead of diverting the flights to Mumbai and other places.

Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Suresh Prabhu, Jitendra Singh and Harsh Vardhan, and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi also visited the hospital to check on Vajpayee.

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy directed the district commissioners of Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga districts to be on high alert.

Speaking about Singhvi’s long and vibrant tenure as the High Commissioner to Britain, Mukherjee said that in his seven-year-long term, Singhvi had evoked bipartisan support from across the political spectrum.

Names of 40,70,707 people do not figure in the second draft of NRC. Of these, 37,59,630 names have been rejected and the remaining 2,48,077 are on hold.

Despite the water level at Mullaperiyar dam reaching dangerously close to permissible levels, residents of the area hoisted the flag at one of the dam's towers as a mark of respect to the country.

Modi had last year spoken for 57 minutes, his shortest Independence Day speech in five years. In 2016, he had spoken for 96 minutes, the longest ever Independence Day address by an Indian prime minister.

The two big-ticket announcements made by PM Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech were the rollout of the Ayushman Bharath healthcare scheme and the plan to send an Indian to the space by 2022.

The apex court, on January 8, had stayed the Karnataka High Court order quashing the 2014 government regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging space.

He said that the university students should visit villages at regular intervals and should engage with its residents and work towards improving the situation of cleanliness, literacy, immunisation and nutrition in these areas.

He was addressing a group of sages at the inauguration of a ‘gaushala’ (cow shelter) in Ayodhya when Yogi Adityanath made the remark against Vedanti and urged the saints to take care of cows.

Vacancies for the post of Scientist/ Engineer ‘SC’ for LPSC Units near Thiruvananthapuram and at Bangalore has begun on the official website of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.

Ayyappa devotees had been advised by authorities yesterday not to visit the hill shrine in the coming days as the Pampa river at the foothills is overflowing due to heavy rains.

The highway has been closed due to landslides in Udhampur and shooting stones at places in Ramban district

The address will be broadcast from 7:00 pm on the entire national network of the All India Radio (AIR) and telecast over all the channels of Doordarshan in Hindi followed by the English version.

The Bugatti Divo is expected to share the Chiron's staggering 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 powerplant.