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The Indian Navy was put on high alert on Wednesday, as cyclone Gaja approaches the coast of south Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, officials said.

The Congress is just a platform and the people of Rajasthan are fighting the battle for the party, said Sachin Pilot, who is spearheading the Congress campaign in the state. Rajasthan is the only state in the coming round of assembly elections where opinion polls have predicted a Congress victory. But 41-year-old Mr Pilot, known to be close to party chief Rahul Gandhi, described himself as "overcautious".

There is no sovereign guarantee that Dassault will meet its obligation of delivering the 36 Rafale fighter jets for which the country signed a Rs 59,000-crore deal, the government admitted in Supreme Court today. What is there, government's top law officer KK Venugopal told the court, was a "Letter of Comfort" from France - a written document that assures that an obligation will eventually be met.

Five executives of ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) have been sent on forced leave after allegations of sexual harassment against them, officials said on Wednesday.

The security of all three highly sensitive airports in Jammu and Kashmir will be taken over by the CISF, which guards major airports in the country, possibly from January 1 next year, officials said Wednesday.

A quack in Nadia district of West Bengal was arrested for the death of a pregnant woman who had gone to him to abort the foetus, the police said today.

The Reserve Bank of India and the government are slowly moving towards resolving some of their differences ahead of a crucial meeting of the central bank's board on November 19.

The casualties faced by the Indian armed forces in the Kargil war would have been far less if the country had Rafale fighter jets back then, the centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. However, its impassioned justification of the nation's need to acquire the aircraft from France failed to impress the bench, which pointed out that Attorney General KK Venugopal may be mixing up timelines to make a point.

On the Children's Day, the NITI Aayog on Wednesday launched a 72-hour 'Tinkering Hackathon' for children to come up with innovative solutions for challenges faced by them in schools, especially on quality of education and safety.

ISRO has chalked out hectic plans ahead of the new year with the space agency lining up 10 missions before January 2019, the space agency's chief K Sivan said Wednesday.

Three Punjab residents, including a father-son duo, who had gone missing last week following a landslide on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, were found dead under the debris Wednesday, police said.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today ordered Punjab Government to submit a fine of Rs 50 crore as environmental compensation for polluting rivers Sutlaj and Beas due to uncontrolled industrial discharge.

The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) will use space technology for getting better data on the river and help in planning and monitoring projects, a top official said.

The first joint military exercise of Indian and Japanese armies concluded in Mizoram today, a defence statement said.

The Indian Railways will export the first state-of-the-art swanky and modern Diesel Multiple Units (DEMU) train rake to Sri Lanka in a week, rail officials said on Wednesday.