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New Delhi, July 18 (PTI) The Government today said it is concerned about the imposition of additional duties by the US on items from India and has moved the WTO Appellate disputes settlement committee which will hear both sides on July 19 and 20.

Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C R Chaudhary said India as a retaliatory action to the US has also slapped additional duties of 10 to 20 per cent on as many as 29 items which would come into force on August 4.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 17 : The Supreme Court today asked Parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching, saying "horrendous acts of mobocracy" cannot be allowed to become a new norm.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra also passed a slew of directions to provide "preventive, remedial and punitive measures" to deal with offences like mob violence and cow vigilantism.

New Delhi, July 14 : India’s trade deficit widened to its highest in more than five years in June, the trade ministry said on Friday.

The deficit is claimed to have been caused by a surge in oil imports despite an increase in merchandise exports.

The trade deficit widened to $16.6 billion that surged 56.61 percent to $12.73 billion. In May the trade deficit stood at $14.62 billion the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement. India’s gold imports fell 2.8 percent year-on-year to $2.39 billion in June from a year ago, the statement said.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 12 : Accusing the government of fusing "neo-liberalism" and "Hindutva" in education, the CPI(M) today called upon students, teachers and people in general to oppose the Centre's education policies.

New Delhi, July 12 : Retail inflation rate accelerated to a five-month high of 5.0 percent in June, government data showed on Thursday, driven by higher fuel prices and a depreciating rupee.

June was the eighth straight month in which inflation was higher than the central bank's medium-term target of 4 percent. Economists polled by news agency Reuters had forecast June's annual increase in the consumer price index at 5.30 percent, compared with May's 4.87 percent. 

Ministry of Human Resources has decided to give Institute of eminence (IoE) award to Jio Institute, which does not exists.

The Jio institute will be owned by the Reliance Foundation, and will start in 3 years time. It has been learnt that The Government of India will provide 1000 crores funding to this privately held institute.

In a statement issued on July 10, Students Federation of India called it a “daylight robbery of public resource”.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : The issue of growing menace of drug abuse among children has come up again before the Supreme Court which asked the Centre to apprise it of steps taken to comply with its 2016 verdict that had directed measures including formulation of a national action plan to combat it.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : India has conveyed to Russia its unwillingness to go ahead with the joint development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) primarily due to high cost involved in the project, official sources said.

New Delhi, June 28, 2018;  As reported by The Hindu newspaper, “A 20-year-old Canadian national was allegedly raped by a 25-year-old man at a guest house in the Capital on Tuesday night.”

A senior police officer name the accused as “Abhishek”. “He invited the woman to the guest house and allegedly raped her there”, said the officer.

According to the officer, “the manager of the guest house, met the victim at a restaurant in Hauz Khas Village on Tuesday evening and befriended her.” reported The Hindu.

25 June 2018; Thomson Reuters Foundation has found India to be the most dangerous country for women. Seven years ago India ranked fifth, according to the foundation.

In their survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, conducted online, by phone and in person between March 26 and May 4, 2018 across Europe, Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, India was found to be most dangerous country for women.

The survey questions were based on following criteria;