Authorities in Iran on Saturday began to evacuate six more towns after forecasts of new round of flooding, state TV reported, as the death toll from the recent floods across the country reached 70.


Iran evacuates thousands; more rains, floods likely


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Producer Anand Pandit says the team of "PM Narendra Modi" is planning to release the film in 38 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia and the UAE.


Modi biopic expected to release in 38 countries


A UN expert plans to meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on April 25 after receiving complaints of privacy violations, a statement released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.


UN human rights expert plans to visit Assange


Governor Jay Inslee of Washington has signed a bill into law raising the state's smoking age to 21 years, making it the ninth in the country to introduce such legislation, officials said.


Washington raises smoking age to 21 to curb addiction


The SC/ST voters will play a crucial role in deciding the fate of candidates in at least 17 out of 48 constituencies in Maharashtra where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- Shiv Sena combine are looking to repeat their 2014 performance when they won 42 seats and wiped out Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).


Caste lines favour BJP-Shiv Sena in Maharashtra's reserved lands (IANS Special)


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he is "confident" that Washington will hold another summit with Pyongyang to further denuclearization talks, a follow-up to President Donald Trumps fruitless meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in February.


Pompeo 'confident' of 3rd North Korea summit


A day after Sreedhanya Suresh from Wayanad cleared the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) civil service exam-2018, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who is contesting from the same Kerala Lok Sabha seat, congratulated her for being the first tribal woman from the district to attain that feat.


Rahul greets Wayanad woman for clearing UPSC exam


Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal has said that Islamabad will never accept India repealing Article 370 of its Constitution that gives autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir.


'Pakistan won't accept repeal of Indian Article 370'


Rahul Gandhi's choice of Wayanad as his constituency in south India has set tongues wagging. Is this an insurance just in case there is a shock reversal in Amethi? Since he is fighting the BJP in the company of regional parties, is the Amethi-Wayanad arc designed to give him, and his party, an all India aura?


Congress manifesto gives one signal, fighting Left another (Comment)


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the recent arrest of a woman who allegedly breached security at President Donald Trump's private Florida club while carrying Chinese passports and a flash drive containing malware, is an example of the threat Beijing poses to Washington.


'Trump's Florida club breach tied to Chinese espionage'


US President Donald Trump paid a visit to the US-Mexico border on Friday, following a week of confusing comments over whether he'd shut it down.


Trump to migrants: We can't take you anymore


President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose an "economic penalty" on Mexico if it does not halt the flow of illegal drugs into US territory and to place 25 per cent tariffs on all Mexican-made cars that are shipped into the US if it stops deporting undocumented migrants who cross into Mexico from Guatemala.


Trump threatens to sanction Mexico over drug trafficking


A new police observer was appointed by the Election Commission on Friday for West Bengal's first phase election. In the evening the name of a third officer also came up, an official said.


Bengal's Coochbehar gets another police observer


The Election Commission (EC) should treat social media like any other media and all rules that apply to the media during the model code of conduct should also apply to social media, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said on Friday.


Rules for media should also apply to social media: Ex-CEC


The Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to bar civilian traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway for two days in a week will not apply to bonafide and emergency movement of civilians, a top official said on Friday.


No blanket ban on civilian movement on highway


Authorities have withdrawn personal security of 919 persons, including separatists, so far in Jammu and Kashmir since the Governor's rule was imposed, a Union Home Ministry statement said on Friday.


Security of 919 persons withdrawn in J&K


The release date of "PM Narendra Modi" has been set for April 11, when the Lok Sabha elections begin, the makers announced on Friday.


'PM Narendra Modi' to release on April 11


BJP President Amit Shah on Friday said that though the BJP-led NDA government had started the process of identifying illegal infiltrators in Assam through the National Register of Citizens (NRC), it will send them back in the next five years.


Will deport infiltrators in 5 years: Amit Shah


WhatsApp's "Checkpoint Tipline" service that was launched with much fanfare on April 2 to help users in India report fake news is not a helpline number but a data-gathering research project to help the Facebook-owned platform understand how misinformation spreads.


WhatsApp tipline of no use for 2019 polls (2nd Lead)


The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday stayed the appointment of two members of Lokayukta in Tamil Nadu.


Madras HC puts interim stay on 2 Lokayukta members


Accusing the BJP-led government in Assam of trying to convert genuine Indian citizens to foreigners in their own country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that only the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) has stood by the 40 lakh people of Assam whose names were left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

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