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The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against two men for indoctrinating youth from Kerala to join Islamic State.

"The robbers had firearms. The four staffers and customers were threatened with dire consequences and asked to remain quite at gun point and they also brandished knives," Police said.

After cooking gas LPG, the government on Thursday made Aadhaar mandatory for availing subsidised foodgrains from the ration shops with a view to better target Rs 1.4 lakh crore subsidy under the food security law.

Raju also alleged that his daughter was facing mental torture at the hands of her manager as she was denied a transfer to Bengaluru and was often asked to put in extra hours of work.

Kerala Beverages Corporation has been facing problems as at least 180 outlets have been rendered homeless after the Supreme Court's order prohibiting the selling of liquor within 500 m of the National and state highways after March 31st.

Meanwhile, sections of AIADMK partymen, who were against General Secretary V.K.Sasikala, welcomed Panneerselvam's decision.

The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that the Nirbhaya fund created to support measures for women's safety and empowerment does not reach the intended beneficiaries and is hardly utilised.

A wanted criminal was apprehended by the police after an encounter near Nehru Place metro station here on Monday.

A special court on Sunday sent chit fund company Green Ray International Ltd. (GRIL) Managing Director Mir Shahruddin to six-day custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Government is keen on implementing vehicle policy that aims at scrapping 15-year old commercial vehicles in the first phase, and it will send the proposal to GST Council after Cabinet nod, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.

India will host a key meet on nuclear security in Delhi next week which will be attended by delegated from over 100 countries.

Former union minister and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said the anti-defection law has a negative impact on democracy as it diminished the voting power of people's representatives.

The Madras High Court has dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on PETA, holding the plea was a misadventure filed for publicity against the backdrop of Jallikattu protesters demanding a ban on the animal rights advocacy group.

Former telecom minister under UPA regime Dayanidhi Maran, who was exonerated by a Delhi court in Aircel-Maxis case along with his brother and all other accused on Thursday, said that he was a victim and the case against him was "politically motivated".

Scientists also looked for other non-infectious causes, like presence of hypoglycin A or methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG), naturally-occurring fruit-based toxins that cause hypoglycaemia and metabolic derangement.