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Jodhpur, May 7: A court here today adjourned till July 17 the hearing on Bollywood actor Salman Khan's plea challenging the trial court order sentencing him to a five-year jail term in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case. Fifty-two-year-old Khan appeared before the judge today in compliance with the directions given by the court on April 7 while granting bail. District and Sessions Judge Chandra

Tehran, May 6: Iran refuses to get bogged down by the US threat to bring amendments to the Iranian nuclear deal formally called as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. As reported by the Sputnik News Agency on Saturday, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said "(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action- JCPOA) This is an international agreement. and we certainly have the

Kabul, May 6: Seven Indian engineers and an Afghan national working for a power plant in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan were kidnapped on Sunday, officials said. Zabihullah Shuja, spokesman for Baghlan police, said the engineers were travelling to a government-run power station in a minibus when unknown gunmen abducted them and their Afghan driver. Two officials at the Indian embassy in

Srinagar, May 6: Five persons were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police said. The victims include Dr Mohammad Rafi Bhat, an assistant professor of Kashmir University who went missing on Friday. His family reached out to KU authorities after they heard rumours of Rafi joining militant ranks after which the police filed a missing report

New Delhi, May 6: A man was arrested by the customs at the Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle in 100 iPhone X handsets, an official said today. The 53-year-old accused was intercepted by the customs after his arrival from Dubai on Friday. "Hundred iPhone X handsets worth a total of Rs 85.61 lakh were seized from his baggage after a thorough search," Additional Commissioner of customs at

New Delhi, May 6: Nearly 60 per cent of children adopted in the last six years were girls across states in India, led by Maharashtra which also recorded the highest number of adoptions in recent years, government data showed. Of the 3,276 children adopted in the country in 2017-18, a total of 1,858 were girls, the data showed. In reply to an RTI filed by this correspondent on the number of

May 6: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that Namaz should be read in mosques and Idgahs and not in public spaces. Responding to questions on increase in number of incidents of disrupting Namaz in Gurgaon, Khattar said that it was the duty of the state to maintain law and order. “It is our duty to maintain law and order. There has been an increase in offering Namaz in open. Namaz

May 6: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that Namaz should be read in mosques and Idgahs and not in public spaces. Responding to questions on increase in number of incidents of disrupting Namaz in Gurgaon, Khattar said that it was the duty of the state to maintain law and order. “It is our duty to maintain law and order. There has been an increase in offering Namaz in open. Namaz

New Delhi, May 6: Rahul Gandhi's Twitter outreach has played a key role in changing perceptions about him, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said urging the party chief to maintain his "unique communication" with the people and to ignore "trolls and troglodytes". Tharoor, who was recently edged out by Gandhi as the most-followed Congress leader on Twitter, also said social media could

Agartala, May 6: A BSF jawan allegedly shot dead three colleagues with his service weapon before committing suicide today at a border outpost at Maguruli in Unakoti district, about 180 km from Agartala, police said. S P (Special branch), Shankar Debnath said the BSF jawan opened fire on three others including a head constable before killing himself. The incident happened at around 1 am. The head