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The meetings, which some said also included with the Prime Minister, came amid a face-off between the central bank and the finance ministry over issues ranging from appropriate size of reserves that RBI must maintain to ease of lending norms to step up growth in an election year.

Referring to earlier aborted deal, the document said Dassault was required to undertake necessary contractual obligation for 126 aircraft (18 direct flyaway and 108 aircraft manufactured in India) as per request for proposal requirements and contractual issues with HAL on manufacturing of 108 jets in India could not be resolved.

Two candidates with strong 'desi' ties- California Senator Kamala Harris and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard are in the race to get a Democratic ticket to content against Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential election. In addition, there is also talk on the Republican side that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, could be eyeing a White House run in 2024.

North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile programme at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images. The images suggest that the North has been engaged in a great deception: It offered to dismantle a major launching site — a step it began, then halted — while continuing to improve over a dozen others.

India has built 5.33 million tonne (MT) of emergency storage -- enough to meet its oil needs for 9.5 days, in underground rock caverns in Mangalore and Padur in Karnataka and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It has allowed foreign oil companies to store oil in the storages on condition that the stockpile can be used by New Delhi in case of an emergency.

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, who was one of the earliest to welcome the demonetisation move when it was announced on November 8, 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday said it was not implemented properly.

Five-time former world champion Viswanathan Anand feels India cricket captain Virat Kohli became a bit emotional and lost control during his "leave India" comment to a fan on social media, which snowballed into a massive controversy.

The airline blamed the loss on “tough industry environment…sharp rise in Brent fuel price by more than 50% over Q2 FY18, a depreciating rupee and a challenging pricing situation in an over-capacitated domestic market.”

In a first for the country's inland water transport since independence, PM Narendra Modi on Monday received a container vessel in Varanasi on the river Ganga at the newly developed multi-modal terminal. The objective of the project is to promote inland waterways as a cheap and environment-friendly means of transportation, especially for cargo movement.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), which includes Saudi Arabia and Iraq and Iran, and other non-Opec oil producers such as Russia met in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to discuss oil cuts. They worry that a continued fall in crude oil price will cause a 2014-16 style oil crash when oil price dropped 70%, in large part due to the US shale oil boom.

With his arrest by the Central Crime Branch police in connection with the Rs 600-crore Ambidant Marketing Ponzi case, life has come full circle for mining czar and former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy

About 50 percent of the carving work is complete at the at the Ram Janmabhomi Nyas-run workshop in Ayodhya's Karsevakpuram, according to the man who is in-charge of the workshop

For India, the event served to bring out from the closet a significant shift in its policy vis-a-vis the Taliban as it for the first time agreed to share a room with them, something that was anathema until recently.

The low-profile ceremony at Gowda's New Delhi residence, 5 Safdarjung Lane, took place on Friday. The house, which Gowda was occupying before he became PM in 1996, is considered lucky by the family.

The SC on Monday deferred the hearing against CBI director Alok Verma till Friday after the CVC submitted its report to the apex court in a sealed cover. The CVC was earlier directed by the top court to complete within two weeks its preliminary inquiry against CBI director Alok Kumar Verma, who has been divested of his duties and sent on leave by the Centre.

The first phase of polling will take place in 18 constituencies of Chhattisgarh. Stay with TOI for live updates