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A constable of the National Disaster Response Force who sustained a severe spinal injury while saving a pilgrim from drowning in the Kumbh Mela died in a Delhi hospital on Friday, a senior NDRF official said.

Over 200 lions died in the Gir forest region in the last two years, the Gujarat government told the legislative Assembly on Friday.

The Supreme Court will next Tuesday hear a petition on whether its verdict giving the centre a clean chit on the Rafale jet deal should be reviewed and whether action should be taken against officers for misleading the top court.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday wrote to vice-chancellors of universities across the country to ensure the safety of Kashmiri students on campus following incidents of alleged attacks on them after the Pulwama terror attack.

Telecom operators have been asked to explain in 15 days what action they have taken amidst an intense campaign of threats and abuse against several senior journalists, including NDTV's Ravish Kumar, over the last week.

Coming to the rescue of a Pakistani woman who had been directed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to leave the country by February 23, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Centre to not take any coercive steps against her till next week.

Ever since a Pakistan-based terrorist group claimed responsibility for an unprecedented attack in Kashmir on February 14, India has sought ways to punish its neighbour.

The sedition charge against 14 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students has been dropped, the police said today, adding there was no evidence to support the allegation that anti-India or pro-Pakistan slogans were raised in the campus last week.

A day after the Congress signed up Lt Gen D S Hooda (Retired), architect of the 2016 surgical strikes, to craft its national security manifesto ahead of the general elections later this year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took a dig at party, saying it signalled a "belated and grudging recognition and acceptance" of the operation.

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists were killed today in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, a senior police official said.

The Telangana government on Friday proposed to waive all agriculture term loans up to Rs 1 lakh outstanding as on December 11, 2018.

The Kolkata police has sent a notice to CBI Joint Director Pankaj Srivastava, asking him to appear before the investigating officer at the Bhawanipur police station in Kolkata in connection with a complaint registered against him last month.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday filed a charge sheet against eight people, allegedly owning allegiance to the proscribed Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) terror group, in a case related to the attempt to murder of Shiv Sena leader Amit Arora, officials said.

The Meteorological Department on Friday issued a 'yellow' weather warning for hailstorm in the mid and low hills of Himachal Pradesh on February 26, officials said.

Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism with a long list of outlawed terror organisations, including the latest to be banned Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa or JuD, and the country abets and aids almost half of the proscribed groups in India, according to official documents.