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Representatives of the Students' Federation of India and the Arts Faculty Students' Union (AFSU) had twice met Chatterjee over the demand. AFSU has welcomed the move.

Expressing deep sorrow on the killings and conveying his condolences to their families, Singh said the traders from other parts of the country come to the Valley to help people by purchasing their produce.

Government cannot function without publicity from the media, we too have our concern with you (media) on the issue on certain matters... we will make all efforts to end the deadlock as soon as possible, Karnataka Minister Bommai said.

Ten out of the 37 air quality monitoring stations in Delhi recorded Air Quality Index (AQI) in the "very poor" category.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said he was personally involved in the bill that paved the way for abrogation of provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution that granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir.

Speaking to reporters Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the detention centre will be for foreign nationals involved in illegal activities, until they are deported.

The incident took place on Wednesday at around 8.30 pm when the scribe was talking over his phone near the New Ashok Nagar Metro Station. A man snatched his mobile phone and disappeared into the crowd, police said.

On May 10, the accused invited the woman to his room, where he offered her a cold drink laced with sedatives and later raped her.

Speaking for the Indian delegation which was headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said Parliament of India will not allow these malicious efforts to succeed.

The employees' plea came in the wake of the Centre’s proposed disinvestment of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).

The United States ranked a distant second, with nearly 600,000 patent applications, down 1.6 percent on the previous year and the first drop in a decade.

A police official said that the head constable was on unauthorised leave for the past two days and it was on his wife's request to the duty officer he was taken back.

Delivering a lecture at the prestigious Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Sitharaman said that giving all the public sector banks a lifeline is today her primary duty.

The poem 'Lab pe aati hai dua' written in 1902 by Mohd Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, was sung by students of a government school in Pilibhit.

The survey findings come at a time when nationalism is the dominant theme politically and repeated appeals are made to buy local goods over various media platforms.

While the cousin was saved by people in the vicinity, the three sisters drowned. Their bodies have been retrieved, police said.