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The Delhi High Court will hear on Wednesday an application seeking direction to the Central government to disclose the formula on the basis of which daily prices of petroleum and diesel are fixed.

A BJP supporter from West Bengal's Salboni was arrested today by the District Enforcement Branch of West Midnapore district police for sharing obscene posts and images of chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook. The accused, Babuya Ghosh was arrested from his home early on Tuesday.

The Maharashtra police today said it has instructed its unit commanders to assess the threat perception and provide necessary security to the activists and politicians on the hit list of the accused arrested in the Nallasopara explosives seizure case.

A 22-year-old man, who was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh, won't be executed till the Supreme Court decides on his appeal. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud put on hold the death sentence awarded to him by the high court.

The newly elected president of Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) Ankiv Baisoya representing the BJP-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) could be in trouble amid allegations that he got post graduate admission by submitting fake documents.

A mechanism has been put in place under which central government employees will get pension payment order (PPO) on the day of retirement, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today.

A victory for President Abdulla Yameen in a Sunday election in the Maldives could ramp up pressure on its finances, as the government stays the course on a Chinese-backed infrastructure boom that is in danger of swamping the economy.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday reconstituted eight department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees that are serviced by the upper house of Parliament, an official release said.

Taking a jibe at Rahul Gandhi, BJP chief Amit Shah today said it was doubtful whether the Congress leader knows about Rabi and Kharif crops and alleged the Opposition party cannot protect farmers' interest.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asserted on Tuesday that the Hindutva organisation never asks its volunteers to work for any particular party but does advise them to back those working in the national interest.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the shooting down of a Russian military plane near Syria's seacoast was the result of a chain of tragic and chance circumstances.

Fed-up with a growing mountain of stinking disposable nappies, a Dutch firm Tuesday started building the country's first recycling plant to turn poo into profit.

On the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday, the Uttar Pradesh Prisons Department facilitated release of 68 prisoners facing additional jail term for their failure to deposit the fine imposed on them.

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her maternal uncle in Rohtak district of Haryana, police said Tuesday.

After an elderly autorickshaw driver in Chennai was allegedly manhandled for asking Tamil Nadu BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan difficult question around the rising fuel prices during an interaction with reporters, Ms Soundararajan today showed up at his home with sweets. She asked about his well-being and clarified that she was unaware of the incident and the whole episode was wrongly interpreted.