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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Friday said the nation is waiting for a new prime minister and a message of change would go out loud and clear from the the mega opposition rally of Mamata Banerjee''s Trinamool Congress on Saturday here.

India is nowhere less than China in the arena of space, and after the success of human space mission project "Gaganyaan", it will be equal to its neighbour in all aspects related to the field, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said today.

A second year student of XLRI in Jamshedpur died after falling down in the institute's premises today, the police said.

Resident doctors, medical staff and undergraduate students of Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Medical College will now be required to follow a blue dress code, including donning blazers worth Rs 3000 of the same colour.

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani, arrested in a money laundering case involving Kashmiri separatist Shabir Shah.

A senior leader of the ruling BJP today said the Centre will soon announce a "very big decision" aimed at boosting the income of farmers.

Two women were killed in celebratory firing during a wedding in a Moradabad village in Uttar Pradesh, while a young bride in the national capital was injured in a similar but separate incident, police said on Friday.

The Narendra Modi government has decided to induct women in the Personnel Below Officer Rank (PBOR) of the military police corps for the first time ever, the ruling BJP declared through its Twitter handle on Friday. The "historic decision" was yet another milestone in the centre's efforts to provide women with more opportunities in the armed forces, it added.

Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna were sworn-in as Supreme Court judges today.

A train ran over 25 cows near Ragaol railway station in neighbouring Hamirpur district on Friday, officials said.

Two days after the Jadavpur University in Kolkata removed professor Kanak Sarkar for a misogynist social media post, its Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das has said he is mulling legal action in the case to ensure such incidents do not occur again.

A former BJP parliamentarian today announced his resignation from the party. Uday Singh, an ex-BJP MP who has represented Bihar's Purnea Lok Sabha constituency twice, alleged the party has surrendered before the discredited Janata Dal (United) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

As the northeast stands united against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, two chief ministers from the region met Home Minister Rajnath Singh today to urge the centre to scrap the controversial bill. Meghalaya's Conrad Sangma and Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga said there should not be any dilution of the 64-year-old Citizenship Act.

A Singaporean woman was found guilty on Friday for abusing her Myanmar origin maid, including forcing her to pour hot water on herself and to drink water laced with floor cleaner.

Dead bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district, the police said today.