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Salman Khurshid said he is also going to take up issue of increase of Haj quota for Indian pilgrims with the Saudi authorities. At present, India sends more than 175,000 pilgrims every year.

The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that departmental enquiry had been initiated against seven policemen in connection with the December 16 gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in the national capital.

One of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case was on Thursday not brought before the fast track court due to ill-health following which the proceedings could not take place.

China on Thursday said Premier Li Keqiang`s India visit has helped build mutual trust between the two countries as he held "candid" talks with the Indian leadership.

In a faux-pas, the Indian tricolour was displayed upside down on Thursday at a private hotel in which Vice President Hamid Ansari stayed during his day-long visit to this ancient city in Uzbekistan.

In the wake of NIA filing charge sheet against four suspected members of right-wing groups for the 2006 Malegaon blasts, the Centre on Thursday promised to take necessary steps to stop harassment of innocent while tackling terror.

A 1977-batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, Mathur is likely to be appointed as Defence Secretary.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the four years of UPA government at the Centre has witnessed a lot of positive work, but admitted that successive scandals were a setback to it.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is an "asset" for the Congress, former Minister Buta Singh said in Phagwara on Thursday.

CBI teams on Thursday raided eight places in Odisha to investigate a Rs 13 crore fraud in a regional bank where gold loans were allegedly given against imitation jewellery.