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By Loveena Tandon: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is in England on a 10-day visit. The Wayanad MP will be in London for three days where he will be speaking at the British Parliament, meeting the Indian diaspora, addressing a press conference organized by the Indian Journalist Association, holding private business meetings, and giving a talk at a well-known London think tank, Chatham House.

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), a premier educational institution and the Indian Air Force (IAF), signed an MoU intending to promote the development of indigenous technologies and equipment through Research and Development in areas of mutual interest on February 14, 2023, at Bengaluru during Aero India 2023 aiming to the self-reliance of Indian Defence system.

Tanjore (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 13: Tamil Nationalist Movement leader Pazha Nedumaran on Monday claimed that the leader of outlawed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran was "healthy and fine" and will soon "announce a plan for the liberation of the Tamil race."

The legislature and judiciary are considered two important pillars of democracy. Consequently, democratic norms require that officers of both branches be granted some privilege. In India, these privileges are allocated to advocates and parliamentarians.

NEW DELHI: Having been known for over 30 years for often denying clearances to development projects to protect the environment, the Supreme Court's green bench has now taken a more "pragmatic approach". In a series of orders last week, the bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath cleared 118 projects which had been delayed for over five years because of pending litigation.

New Delhi: In the latest appointments and reshuffle announced by President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday, two former army officers will be the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of  Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, the two ‘sensitive’ regions which are prone to intrusions and incursions by the Chinese army.

By Press Trust of India: A second-year Indian-American student at Harvard Law School has been elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, becoming the first woman from the community to be named to the position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year history.

A young prodigy from India is capturing the world's attention with his brilliance and creativity. Rishi Shiv Prasanna, an eight-year-old boy from Bengaluru, India, has recently received the prestigious Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Award for Innovations as an Android app developer, according to The Indian Express.