Adam Hadwin started the back nine with five straight birdies and posted a 7-under 64 to build a one-shot lead going into the weekend of the Valspar Championship. It was another low round for Hadwin – not a 59 like the score the Canadian shot in the California desert this year, but enough to surge past Jim Herman and into the lead on a warm and occasionally blustery Friday afternoon at Innisbrook.

New Delhi , Mar. 4 : Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s road show in Varanasi, Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha on Saturday asserted that the former did not do the right thing by taking out a road show. “Bharatiya Janata Party is already leading in Uttar Pradesh and I feel that Prime Minister shouldn’t have done a road show in Varanasi, it’s just an assembly election then why to make it so big,” Kushwaha told ANI.

The Trump administration would be good for India as Washington sees New Delhi as a stabilising factor in the region, a top US industry body has said. “I think US needs India for its presence in the region itself,” Mukesh Aghi, president of US India Business Council, a representative body of top American businesses having a footprint in India, told PTI .

China is warning of “severe damage” to relations with India and increased regional instability if exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama proceeds with a visit to a disputed area along their still-unsettled border. Beijing has expressed its concerns to New Delhi on numerous occasions and urged India to “avoid offering a state for the Dalai Lama to carry out anti-China separatist activities,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily briefing Friday.

New Delhi, Mar 3 The Supreme Court today sought Kerala government’s response on a plea seeking setting up of dog pounds in the state to prevent stray canines from attacking people and livestock. A bench of justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy gave the state government four weeks to respond to the application which contends that by catching and sheltering stray dogs in such pounds, it would reduce the incidents of attacks by the canines.

New Delhi, Mar 3 A man was arrested today by Customs officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here for allegedly trying to smuggle gold worth around Rs 61 lakh into the country. Detailed examination of his baggage and personal search resulted in recovery of 2.08 kg of gold from him, a press release issued by the Customs said.

New Delhi, Mar 3 The Delhi High Court today directed the Centre, the AAP government and the Delhi police to frame a comprehensive policy on plying of e-rickshaws in the national capital. “You have to frame a comprehensive policy as e-rickshaws are plying on roads here without proper registration,” Justice Manmohan said.

Businesses operating in India should be ready for “teething problems” when the country introduces a landmark tax reform this year, Arun Jaitley, finance minister, said on Monday. The proposed goods and services tax – which is set to replace a labyrinthine tangle of local and state taxes with a single, unified levy – represents the most ambitious Indian tax reform since independence 70 years ago.

US President Donald Trump is interviewed by Reuters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, February 23, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst India has stepped up its lobbying effort against moves in the US Congress to impose curbs on visas for skilled workers that threaten the South Asian nation’s tech sector, which employs more than 3.5 million people.

New Delhi, Feb 23 : Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region , jointly with the Department of Business Administration, Tezpur University and North Eastern Finance Corporation Limited , is coming up with a Business Idea Challenge to encourage entrepreneurship in the North-East Region . The annual industry-academia interface event Sampark, which will see the DoNER Ministrys involvement for the first time, brings the spirit of entrepreneurship in the region.

New Delhi [India], Feb. 23 : The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the plea, filed by noted environmentalist, M. C. Mehta, in air pollution case. On January 17, the top court had warned that the problem of air pollution was very serious and it is important to find a solution on the same, on an urgent basis.

Early counting on Saturday in India’s most populous state showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party leading in the country’s most important electoral test since the 2014 general election. If the Bharatiya Janata Party does wrest control of Uttar Pradesh it would be an endorsement of Modi’s stewardship of Asia’s third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes worth 86 percent of the cash in circulation.

New Delhi , Feb. 19 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday expressed condolence at the demise of former Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir. Remembering him as an outstanding legal luminary, Sonia Gandhi said, “As a judge, Justice Kabir’s contribution to legal and justice system of India shall never be forgotten.