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Putting all speculations to rest, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Syed Akbaruddin shared a UN Security Council list dating back to 2001, confirming terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed's location as Pakistan.

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yaseen Malik was detained Friday night amid indications of a wider crackdown on separatists in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

After reports of attacks on Kashmiris across the country, the Centre on Friday asked all states to ensure their security. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued an advisory to all states following a directive of the Supreme Court, which took up a petition in this regard.

As Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao came under attack for not inducting a woman member into the cabinet, his daughter and Telangana Rashtra Samithi Lok Sabha member K Kavitha said on Friday she can't influence her father to do so.

Slamming the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala over the Sabarimala issue, BJP chief Amit Shah said on Friday that they has been "cheating" crores of Ayyappa devotees and denying them justice. He added that it would only result in "unsettling the foundation of the communist party in the state," he said while addressing part workers in Palakkad, Kerala.

Seven persons including a joint director of the health department have died of swine flu in Chhattisgarh since the beginning of this year, the government informed the Legislative Assembly Friday.

The centre has not been delaying the appointment of judges in higher judiciary and delay, if any, was at the collegium end, the Supreme Court said Friday.

Hitting out at an AAP MLA who claimed that no new degree colleges were opened in some areas in Sangrur district, Punjab Higher Education Minister Razia Sultana on Friday said her department did not have Aladdin's magic lamp which, if rubbed, would set up a building in no time.

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Friday said India should not play cricket matches with Pakistan in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack which killed 40 CRPF personnel.

A gathering in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on Friday saw more than 5,000 survivors of sexual abuse across India, who traveled 10,000 km starting from Mumbai on December 20 last year.

Advocating peace in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack, a Hindu MP from Pakistan today expressed hope that India and Pakistan would move forward in the direction of friendship.

Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar's advice that Raj Thackeray's party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) must be included in the alliance, has been shot down by the Congress, saying the ideological differences with Mr Thackeray's party would render electoral tie-up unfeasible.

Chinese twins Lulu and Nana had their genes altered before birth with a gene-editing tool. The Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had claimed to have edited the DNA of their embryos in order to make them immune to acquiring HIV that causes AIDS.

The BJP state unit on Friday announced that the party would contest the Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram and also the Assembly by-election.

A 37-year-old man in Delhi was arrested after a nine-year-old girl accused him of "inappropriately" touching her. The parents of the girl had filed a case against the man who lived as a tenant in their home.