Modi has also not talked about a rape accusation against a ruling BJP lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh.
Veteran actress Shabana Azmi says for the government's "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" campaign to be effective, "our betis (daughters) should be alive".
Modi will hold separate bilateral meetings with the leaders of the other four Nordic countries on the sidelines of the summit.
If Djokovic, a former world No.1, wins his upcoming matches, he may face current world No.1 Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals.
China's Commerce Ministry announced on Tuesday that it will impose provisional anti-dumping measures on sorghum grain imported from the US.
Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor, who is set to play a football match for a cause, says he would love to do a sports-centric film which tells the inspirational story of any Indian athlete.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan, out on bail in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case, was on Tuesday granted permission to travel to the US, Canada and Nepal.
(KR, riding on Nitish Rana and Andre Russell's heroics, snapped a two-game losing streak in style to register a 71-run victory over Gautam Gambhir's DD in a lopsided IPL clash at the Eden Gardens here on Monday.
A written statement of the Unnao rape victim was recorded before a special CBI magistrate here on Monday, an official said.
Polling will be held in a single phase for the 224 assembly segments across the state on May 12 and votes will be counted on May 15.
India needs to create more than 8 million jobs a year to maintain its employment rate which has been declining over the past decade, according to the latest World Bank report.
At the BCCI conclave held in March, most teams were happy with the use of the SG Test balls in the Ranji Trophy but a majority of them expressed reservations on the use of SG Glace for white-ball tournaments.
A woman professor who allegedly tried to lure her students to extend sexual favours to top officials of a leading university in Tamil Nadu was on Monday arrested after the issue triggered a furore in the state.
FC Barcelona go into a busy week which could end with their winning the Copa del Rey and moving to within touching distance of the league.
Shinzo Abe is likely to resign in June over two cronyism scandals that sent his approval ratings to an all-time low and risk damaging his party's fortunes in the 2019 elections, former leader Junichiro Koizumi told a weekly magazine.
A shutdown called by a section of social media users against the rape and murder of a girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua hit normal life in several parts of the state.
A 24-year-old man, who was on run after raping and sodomising a 9-year-old girl in Gujarat's Rajkot district, has been arrested, police said on Monday.
Syria is ready to cooperate in a probe into an alleged chemical weapons attack that took place last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on Monday.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday welcomed a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court verdict acquitting all five accused in Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, calling it a "slap in the face" of the previous UPA government.
Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye on Monday decided not to appeal the 24-year jail term handed to her for her involvement in a corruption scandal which had led to her impeachment in January 2017.
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