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Union minister HN Ananth Kumar, 59, passed away in Bengaluru in the wee hours on Monday. He was undergoing treatment for cancer at Shankara Cancer Hospital in Bengaluru. Mortal remains of Ananth Kumar will be kept at his house Sumera on Lalbagh Road till 8 am for family members to pay tribute.

Maoists stepped up violence in Bastar on Sunday, triggering six IED blasts in Kanker and attacking a patrol party in Bijapur a day befor polling in the state. A BSF officer, sub-inspector Mahendra Singh, was killed in one of the explosions. Polling will be held in 18 constituencies of eight Naxal-affected districts under unprecedented security cover.

Mike Pompeo told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed-bin-Salman on Sunday the US will hold accountable all those involved in the killing of a dissident Saudi journalist, in a telephone call that also took in the conflict in Yemen. The top US diplomat has previously said Khashoggi's killing "violates the norms of international law".

Air India director (operations) Capt Arvind Kathpalia tested positive for alcohol during the mandatory pre-flight breath-analyser test in Delhi on Sunday. This is the second time in less than two years that Capt Kathpalia has been under the scanner for an alcohol-related safety violation.

Veteran Mithali Raj smashed a aggressive half-century to guide India to an easy 7-wicket victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the ICC Women's World T20 on Sunday.

Shikhar Dhawan smashed a career-best 92 to guide India to a thrilling six-wicket win over the West Indies in the third and final T20 International, thus completing a 3-0 clean sweep, on Sunday.

"You will always have critics and cynics who will come up and say it (GST) slowed down India's growth," Jaitley said, adding that it was a "monumental reform" which had disruptionist impact on growth only for two quarters. His remarks come a day after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan blamed GST for derailing India's growth story.

Going by the public utterances of RBI and government officials, the contentious issues are how to manage huge surplus the RBI has accumulated, how should it deal with errant lenders & borrowers amid the bad loan crisis and what could be the 'public interest' for the government to dictate directions so that it is not seen as an attack on RBI's autonomy.

Check live score, ball by ball commentary and scorecard of 2018 ICC Women's Twenty20 World Cup match between India Women vs Pakistan Women on Times of India.

The Indian Air Force is "very much alive" to emerging threats that could arise in the Indo Pacific region, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said, and asserted that his force was prepared to deal with any challenge to protect India's national interests.

Stay updated with Times of India for Live Cricket Score, Ball by ball commentary & Scorecard of 3rd T20I between India and West Indies.

The 34-year-old Saha, who has been India's number one wicketkeeper in Test cricket since MS Dhoni's retirement in December 2014, is undergoing rehab for his shoulder surgery.

Mining baron and former state minister Gali Janardhana Reddy was on Sunday arrested by the Central Crime Branch in the Rs 600 crore fraud case. The CCB probe revealed that Reddy and his aide Mehfuz Ali Khan received 57kg gold worth Rs 18 crore from Ambient Marketing to 'negotiate' with ED officials to go easy against its promoter Syed Ahmed Fareed.

Interestingly, the top 5 countries that cyberattackers from India targeted were Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Japan and Ukraine, with the number cumulatively tallying up to 35,563 in the said period, as per the report. F-Secure, in its report, said the insights are based on data from "honeypots".

Today, November 11, is the centenary of Armistice Day – a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the war – and the UK says it has not forgotten the contribution of Indians. Last week, British PM May, said: “We must never forget that over 74,000 soldiers came from undivided India and lost their lives, 11 of them won the Victoria Cross for their outstanding bravery.”

Central Crime Branch, investigating into the over 600 crore alleged fraud by Ambidant scheme, may arrest former state minister Gali Janardhana Reddy for his suspected role that includes money laundering and helping prime accused in making illegal cash transactions.

Maharashtra has witnessed a six-fold increase in applications for Indian citizenship from Pakistani nationals ever since relaxation and simplification of immigration rules in December 2017. The gainers include cross-border brides in Mumbai who have waited for citizenship for close to a decade.