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According to the new rule made by the Ministry of Personnel on Wednesday, an officer holding the post of chief secretary in Jammu and Kashmir may be given an extension of service, under exceptional circumstances, for a period beyond six months.

"She threatened and she pressured and she used coercion and so on at the UN, particularly by taking down names. I don't think people appointed her the schoolmarm of the world," Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO...

Little Mariam and tragedy have been constant companions. Five months ago, her mother was killed in an ‘encounter’ and now her father has been arrested on charges of stone pelting.

The compliance and monitoring arm of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), in a letter on May 15, noted delays of one to six days on the part of the lender in making disclosures about the fraud, PNB said in a securities filing on Thursday.

Filipe Massa will join the driver line up for Season 5 (2018-19), after signing a three-year deal with the team.

An event that's being pitched as the "Oscars" of the food world will become the world's first televised restaurant awards ceremony when it broadcasts next year out of Paris.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission of Jethmalani seeking urgent hearing and said that a three-judge special bench, which had heard the matter in the early hours, would re-assemble tomorrow.

Meghan Markle will become the royal family's first mixed-race member in modern times when she marries Prince Harry on Saturday. At Brixton market in London, hopes are high that the wedding will mark another step towards a less race-oriented society.

Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput welcomed their first child, Misha, in 2016.

Reliance Retail's JioFi model "JMR541" captured the top spot with 49 percent share in the data card market.

The film is all set to go on the floors next year and is being produced by Luv Ranjan and Ankur Garg of Luv Films.

There has also been controversy over Uttar Pradesh State Bridge Corporation Ltd managing director Rajan Mittal, who was removed from the post by the previous Samajwadi party government but reinstated after the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh.

The assault in the city of Pekanbaru on Sumatra island -- also claimed by IS -- saw a group ram their minivan into a gate at the station and then attack officers, police said.

The bank's stock tanked 12.15 per cent to end the day at Rs 75.55 on BSE. Intra-day, it slumped 13.60 per cent to Rs 74.30-its 52-week low level.

At least 18 people were killed on Tuesday after a portion of the flyover being built by the Uttar Pradesh Bridge Corporation collapsed on a busy road as it crushed a mini bus, cars and two-wheelers.

For his film Manto, which features in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section, Nawazuddin was all praise for the film's director Nandita Das' "impeccable research".