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Pakistan on Thursday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to "dismiss or declare inadmissible" India's claim for relief to Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on a death row in the country.

The State Administrative Council (SAC), which met on Thursday, has approved reservation benefits to people living along the international border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Gujarat Government informed the Legislative Assembly Thursday that more than 400 fishermen from the state are lodged in jails in Pakistan at present.

The Odisha government on Thursday shed its initial hesitation to implement the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKSN) - a central scheme aimed at providing income support to small and marginal farmers - and agreed to extend all possible assistance for implementing it in the state, news agency PTI has reported.

Two young Saudi sisters in Hong Kong said Thursday they had been intercepted by kingdom officials at the city's airport while attempting to escape to Australia, in the latest case of women fleeing the ultra-conservative country.

Accusing a Delhi-based non-profit organization, Mission Netaji, of running a "sinister campaign" to taint Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's image by claiming that the leader lived in Uttar Pradesh as a hermit named Gumnami Baba, the members of Netaji's family on Thursday urged the centre to release all Intelligence Bureau (IB) files on him.

In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday announced that if the AAP wins all seven seats, his party will ensure that Delhi gets full statehood status within two years.

Former Superintendent of Police (SP) of Punjab Police, Salwinder Singh, was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in a case of rape registered against him.

A sweeper at a private school was on Thursday arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl, the police said.

A 28-year man died after he was allegedly beaten up by members of a club when he protested the molestation of his two female friends by them in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, police said Thursday.

A rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, which aims to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from the Jewish state.

The CBI has registered a preliminary inquiry against unidentified Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) personnel for allegedly granting favours to close relatives of "public servants" in an examination meant to select additional private secretaries under the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) rule in 2010, news agency PTI quoted officials as saying on Thursday.

China, which has developed strong strategic ties with Pakistan, has been repeatedly blocking a statement on the Pulwama terror attack by the UN Security Council for the last six days

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will take a final call on party candidates for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, for which 70 leaders have filed their applications, Delhi Congress chief Sheila Dikshit said on Thursday.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said loans of 25-30 lakh farmers in the state will be completely waived off in another 15 days.