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The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice Nalin Perera read out the landmark decision to a packed court that was guarded by hundreds of heavily armed commandos. The decision was the latest dramatic twist in the crisis that has gripped Sri Lanka since Sirisena sacked PM Ranil Wickremesinghe on Oct 26 and replaced him with former strongman president Mahinda Rajapakse.

The kilogram is about to change. Gathering in Versailles, west of Paris, governments are expected on Friday to approve plans to use a scientific formulation to define the exact mass of a kilo. Until now, its mass has been defined by a golf ball-sized metal cylinder locked in a vault in France. For more than a century, it has been the one true kg.

The underground strategic oil storage at Padur in Karnataka has four compartments of 0.625 MMT of which half will be leased out to Abu Dhabi National Oil Co to store its oil. Allowing foreign companies to use the storage helps the government save on the cost of filling the reserves (Rs 10,000 cr) and it gives Indian government the first right to the oil in case of an emergency.

The SC in its order said that all the pleas along with all pending applications will be heard in open court on January 22. In the in-chamber proceedings, the judges examine the review petitions by circulation and lawyers are not present. There are around 48 petitions seeking review of the SC judgement allowing entry to women of all ages into Sabarimala

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on Monday suspended his flying licence for three year. Kathpalia had failed alcohol test before operating a Delhi-London flight on Sunday.

A team of eight girls from Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga, Maharashtra, discovered microbes and enzymes that turn the red paan colour into “a harmless colourless product." Railways in Mumbai alone spends crores on scrubbing off paan stains manually. The team got a grant of Rs 10 lakh and a gold medal from the Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) 2018 held in Boston, US.

The countdown for the launch of the second developmental flight of the Indian Space Research Organisation's heavy-lift rocket GSLV MkIII that will carry GSAT-29 began at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 2.50pm on Tuesday.

A day after stating that ‘if opposition thinks BJP is dangerous, it should be so,’ actor Rajinikanth on Tuesday clarified that the ruling party is dangerous for the opposition. "Whether it is dangerous or not, it is for the people to decide," the actor told reporters in front of his Poes Garden residence here.

Speaking at the US-Indian Educational Foundation (USIEF), minister counsellor for consular affairs Joseph Pomper said, "Looking at the past 10 years of data, the number of Indians going to the United States has doubled. The reasons are clear: Indian students are looking for a great education and the United States continues to offer this."

Dassault CEO Eric Trappier Tuesday said that the statements given by him are true and Anil Ambani's company was chosen by his firm for the Rafale defence deal. We chose (Anil) Ambani by ourselves. We already have 30 partners other than Reliance," he said in an interview to news agency ANI.

When Rohit took the flight to SA earlier this year, he was on a high that he is now. He had scored 1293 runs in 21 ODIs in 2017 at an average of 71.83 and 217 runs from two Tests against SL at home pretty much ensured him a spot in Test XI in SA.

PM Modi's skirted the temple issue and harped on 'vikas' only on Monday, even as RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat was camping in Varanasi and holding meetings with Sangh functionaries to give a thrust to RSS programmes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due next year.

The Centre on Monday made public details of its decision to scrap the UPA government's Rafale deal. During long, inconclusive UPA- Dassault talks, our adversaries inducted modern aircraft, the document says. Hence, the NDA government inked a new deal for 36 fully-loaded jets.

Sources in the government said they don’t expect a major change in the SC verdict and so they will go ahead with plans already conceived to implement the order. It is reliably learnt that there is confusion among the CPM leadership on the path to be taken now on Sabarimala issue.

The sealed envelope with top secret information on the cost of the 36 fighter jets came from the defence ministry and was taken straight to SC secretary general Ravindra Maithani's office on Monday, instead of the usual mode of getting it filed in the registry.

Joyeeta Basu, who worked with Akbar for 15 years, described him as "a perfect gentleman" and said she believed the allegations were motivated. Basu, editor of The Sunday Guardian, a paper founded by Akbar, appeared before additional metropolitan magistrate Samar Vishal as first of six complainant witnesses.