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The NIA filed on Tuesday its first chargesheet under the Anti-Hijacking Act against 37-year-old Mumbai businessman Birju Kishor Salla, who was arrested for threatening to hijack a Mumbai-Delhi bound Jet Airways flight on October 30 last year.

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As global political and business leaders gather for this week’s World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, an Oxfam report highlights how global wealth continues to be concentrated in fewer hands and a s​ystem that rewards the super-rich and ignores the poor. A look at the numbers that reveal the wealth inequalities in our world…

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India was ranked 62nd among 74 emerging economies on World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index, a report released on Monday said. While Norway topped the rankings, China was at 26th and Pakistan at 47.

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The bypolls in Delhi will turn into a testing ground for BJP and Congress to see if their traditional voters choose AAP or return to their fold. The full-fledged Delhi assembly elections are scheduled for 2020.

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Last-minute negotiations crumbled as Senate Democrats blocked a four-week stopgap extension in a late-night vote, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century.

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Two 15-year-old boys who met with an accident died on the roadside where they lay on Thursday midnight as police from UP Dial 100 refused to take them to hospital.

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While there exists a legal window for declaring the extra posts for MLAs outside the purview of ‘office of profit’ as defined under Article 102 of the Constitution , the Delhi government, in a hurry to reward 21 MLAs with plum posts, overlooked this requirement.

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A person will be disqualified if he holds an office of profit under the central or state government, other than an office declared not to disqualify its holder by a law passed by Parliament or state legislature.

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The company had 162,553 employees on December 31, compared to 163,759 on September 30. Voluntary quarterly annualized attrition was 16.2% compared to 16.7 in the second quarter.

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In his first year as President, Trump has stuck to the promise, appointing for the first time an Indian-American, Nikki Haley, to the cabinet and giving India a "leadership role" in Washington's global strategy across a broad geographic swath.

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Indian hockey team defeated hosts New Zealand 3-1 in their third match of the Four Nations Invitational Tournament to enter the final in Tauranga on Saturday.

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"Those who speak of changing mindsets (about terrorism) need to look within and their own record of subversion against my country as our capture of an Indian spy has amply demonstrated and proved beyond any shadow of doubt," Pakistan's permanent representative to UN Maleeha Lodhi said.

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While internet can be provided from the moment a plane taxies and personal electronic devices (PEDs) put on "flight mode", mobile phone services will be allowed when aircraft are flying above an altitude of 3,000 metres.

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