The US has embarked on a major exercise of modernising and upgrading its nuclear weapons programme, revealed Thomas Mason, the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory — the key centre for the design and development of nuclear weapons.
Opposition parties on Friday slammed the BJP-led government at Centre for forming a committee to explore the possibility of bringing a legislation for ‘one nation, one election’, saying the move was a threat to the country’s federal structure and a ploy aimed at diverting people’s attention from the pressing issues that the country was facing. However, at least two former allies of BJP—BJD and SAD — welcomed the move.
The security and stability that the institution of marriage promises cannot be expected in a live-in relationship, the Allahabad high court has said while granting bail to a young man from UP’s Saharanpur accused of rape by his live-in partner.
The two-day INDIA conclave ended Friday with the 28-member opposition bloc declaring their intent to contest the Lok Sabha elections together “as far as possible”. A one-page resolution said seat sharing arrangements in the states “will be initiated immediately and concluded at the earliest in collaborative spirit or give and take”.
The body of a 25-year-old youth, Vinay Srivastava, was found a gunshot wound inside a Thakurganj house belonging to Union junior minister for housing and urban affairs Kaushal Kishore in Lucknow on Friday morning. Hours later, police arrested three men — Ajay Rawat (32), Ankit Verma (27) and Shamim alias Baba (21).