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An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737, while on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, a spokesman for the airline told Reuters. The Ethiopian prime minister's official Twitter account on Sunday expressed condolences to families of those lost in the crash.

​​Indian captain Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat against Australia in the fourth ODI at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Sunday. India have made four changes to their Playing XI.

The Election Commission will announce 2019 Lok Sabha poll schedule at 5 pm on Sunday. On Saturday, the EC conducted a review meeting as part of preparations for the multi-phased Lok Sabha polls. The elections could be spread over several phases over the next two months. The Lok Sabha elections in India are the biggest democratic exercise in the world.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday issued a stern warning to terrorist forces targeting India, saying the country cannot keep suffering forever. "Enough is enough," he said, while referring to the terror attacks in Pulwama and Uri. "We cannot keep suffering till eternity."

Recalling its instructions issued on December 4, 2013, restraining parties from making any reference to the armed forces in their advertisements, propaganda and campaigning, the EC said “the Commission, hereby, reiterates the above instruction for strict compliance”.

Officials said the UK and Interpol had informed them in August 2018 itself that Nirav Modi was in the country but his exact location was not known. Indian agencies had also learnt that he was frequently travelling to European countries, and was meeting his lawyers to discuss legal proceedings against him in India, UK and the US.

Stating that terrorists “got an answer in their own language”, PM Modi said Pakistan had become “so scared that around 5 am, they told the world that Indian forces had hit them”. “They started saying Modi has hit (us). The world was informed by them, not us,” the PM said.

Close to 72% of the aspirants of Joint Entrance Examination (Main 1) have registered for the Main 2 exam. For the Main 2 exam to be conducted between second and third week of April 2019, over 9.34 lakh candidates have registered for it.

India had requested UK government for his extradition in August 2018, and UK home secretary Sajid Javid was reported to have forwarded the case to Westminster Magistrate’s Court for further consideration from the district judge on Thursday.

Islamabad will be judged solely by the action it takes on the ground and not words, spokesperson of ministry of external affairs, Raveesh Kumar said, accusing Pakistan of playing the "same script". He said the recent actions are only on paper.

Under the India-UK Extradition Treaty arrangements, the paperwork is now with the district judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London to issue an extradition warrant against Nirav Modi to be executed by Scotland Yard. The Indian authorities were informed on Thursday, with officials saying that an arrest warrant against Nirav Modi may now be a matter of weeks.

The Paris-based global watchdog against financial crimes had expressed dissatisfaction over considering these entities as "low" to "medium" risk by Islamabad, and said Pakistan did "not demonstrate a proper understanding of the terror financing risks posed by Daesh (ISIS), Al Qaida, Jamaat-ud-Dawa(Jud), Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) Haqqani network (HQN), and persons affiliated with the Taliban".

Congress president Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at PM Modi saying that the recent video of the PNB scam accused Nirav Modi in the UK shows an "uncanny similarity" between the two as both "believe they are above the law".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after the Uri attack in 2016, Indian soldiers conducted a surgical strike for the first time, teaching the terrorists a lesson in a language they understand. India now works on "nayi reeti, nayi neeti" (new methods, new policy), said Modi.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell the nation that it was the BJP government which released terror outfit JeM chief Masood Azhar from an Indian jail. Addressing a public rally in north Karnataka, Rahul said, "Let Modi make me understand who sent Masood Azhar from Indian jail to Pakistan."

"The world saw that the Indian cricket team wore military caps instead of their own, did ICC not see this? We think that it is the ICC's responsibility to take notice of this without the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) bringing it up," said Pak foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Indian cricketers wore camouflage military caps during the third ODI against Australia.

The United Kingdom's home secretary has recently referred India's request for extraditing bank-fraud accused Nirav Modi to a court for initiating legal proceedings against the diamantaire. A British daily reported that Modi is living in a swanky 8-million pound apartment in London's West End and is now involved in a new diamond business.

Supreme Court’s verdict on setting up a three-member panel for mediation to resolve the contentious Ayodhya dispute, takes the clock 30 years back, when a similar exercise was initiated for the first time, but made no headway. Eight prime ministers in the past tried this route, but failed.