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New Delhi, Oct 7: The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce Monday its verdict in a plea for tracing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who went missing from the university nearly two years ago. A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel had on September 4 reserved its decision on the petition filed by the student's mother after concluding hearing of arguments of her lawyer and that of the CBI

Gohana, Oct 7: INLD president Om Prakash Chautala on Sunday said his party will work towards bringing the opposition parties together to make BSP supremo Mayawati the next prime minister after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Out on a two-week parole, the former Haryana chief minister was addressing a rally organised here to mark the 105th birth anniversary of senior Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader

New Delhi, Oct 7: Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday cautioned the principal Opposition Congress party to get rid of "hubris" and form a "united front" against the BJP even in the state assembly elections. Taking to micro-blogging site, Twitter, the former BJP leader said,"Hubris is dangerous in politics. Congress party should rid itself of this vice and start talking to everyone so

NASA's Voyager 2 probe is approaching interstellar space and has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency said. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. Since 2007 the probe has been travelling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere

Geneva, Oct 7: There are about 18,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers, living in different locations, who have registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in India, said an UN official. Speaking on the recent deportation of seven ethnic Rohingya Muslims to Mayanmar, Andrej Mahecic-spokesperson for UNHCR told mediapersons at UN Office at Geneva. “[We]

New Delhi, Oct 7: Within a day of the one-off excise duty cut and PSUs subsidising fuel, petrol and diesel prices are on the rise again and have hit a three week high. Petrol and diesel prices were cut by a minimum Rs 2.50 on October 5 when the government's only second cut in excise duty of Rs 1.50 per litre and state-owned fuel retailers providing a Re 1 per litre subsidy came into effect. In BJP

New Delhi, Oct 7: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the menace of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) will be wiped out from the country in about three years. Addressing troops of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) on the occasion of their 26th anniversary celebrations here, Singh said their action should be rapid and quick but never "reckless." Singh, speaking at the CRPF camp here, said districts

Shillong, Oct 7: The Rafale fighter jets are "highly capable" and will be a game changer for the Air Force, Chief of the Eastern Air Command Air Marshal R Nambiar has said. All Air Force units in the region, except for some in West Bengal, will get the modern platforms, including the Rafale, the Chinook and the Apache attack helicopters, Air Marshal Nambiar told mediapersons here Saturday. "The

Morena, Oct 7: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP of working for the interest of a few rich people and ignoring the farmers and other sections of society. At an event organised by tribal organisation Adivasi Ekta Parishad at Morena in Madhya Pradesh, he also raked up the multi-billion Rafale fighter jet deal with France to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi . Mr. Gandhi

Abu Dhabi, Oct 6: As Abu Dhabi gets ready to welcome more than 7,000 athletes to compete in 24 sports at the Special Olympics World Games in 2019, the organising committee has invited youth and other members of the community to be part of the humanitarian sporting event. Abu Dhabi's World Games will be the most unified Games as it will host more than 170 countries, hence, breaking the record of