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- Indonesia has cleared the decks for deporting underworld don Chhota Rajan, who was arrested in Bali last week and faces more than 70 cases at home. Meanwhile In an explosive claim, he told reporters that a few corrupt officials of the Mumbai police are colluding with wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, who is currently based in Pakistan.
- To protest against 'growing intolerance' in the country, top Congress leaders including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi are marching to the Rashtrapati Bhawan. They will submit a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee urging him to take actions against growing intolerance in the country.
- An Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment till his natural death for raping a woman executive in his taxi 11 months ago by a Delhi court.
- A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country’s fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending thousands of people fleeing for shelter. Officials and meteorologists say the storm is the most intense in decades in the arid country, whose storm response is hampered by poverty and a raging civil war.
- An influential parliamentary committee in Britain has warned PM David Cameron against pressing ahead with a vote on UK airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Syria. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons said Cameron should instead focus on efforts to end Syria's civil war, raising concerns about the legal basis for any UK action.
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