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Hazare had earlier written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme at the earliest, failing which, he would launch a countrywide agitation for the same.

The Madras High Court has directed Southern Railways to appoint a diabetic applicant within eight weeks after she was denied appointment.

The authorities are slated to go ahead with the execution of Yakub if the Supreme Court rejects a curative petition filed against his death sentence.

The move came after PM Narendra Modi's visit to China where he affirmed his commitment to creating a business environment suitable for both the countries.

Tomar was arrested on June 9 following a probe into the complaint by Bar Council of Delhi that he had obtained a fake law degree from the Bihar college.

In Trimbakeshwar, HM Rajnath Singh and state Women and Child Welfare minister Pankaja Munde presided over the ceremony as chief guests while CM Devendra Fadnavis presided over the ceremony at Nashik.

"It is suspected that Maoists were conducting a search on some civilian vehicles in the said area and finding these men in a bus they took them away with them," a senior official said.

The ITBP jawan who allegedly shot dead a senior and injured another colleague at Mussoorie's prestigious IAS training academy last week was sent to jail on Monday by a court in Dehradun.

The Supreme Court virtually turned an auction room when two real estate firms hiked their bids for the purchase of Sahara Group's land in Gorakhpur.

Additional Sessions Judge PM Patel awarded the five-year jail term to Shah along with a fine of Rs 25,000. The court also asked Shah to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the two youths killed.

"Arguments heard. Judgement reserved," Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said, after the counsels for Delhi University (DU), the outstation students and several colleges put forth their contentions on the issue.

Shah who had been identified by eyewitnesses had been arrested under section 304 of the IPC for causing death due to rash driving.

Jaahnvi and her parents are expecting some financial support from the government.

"The state government will give special emphasis on employment generation during the year which will be known as 'year of employment and skill development," Tuki said.

This comes just days after Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi announced that the two nations had agreed to share voice samples to expedite the 26/11 attack trial.

Charging the Centre with not releasing the amount sanctioned by the UPA government for payment of dues to sugarcane growers in Uttarakhand, he said their problem needs immediate redressal.