Senior British officer Cressida Dick has been appointed as the commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, becoming the first woman to lead Scotland Yard in its 187-year history.
She takes over from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, who will resign from the post of Metropolitan Police commissioner at the end of this month.
Elections in Nepal after Two Decades
Nepal will hold their first elections in 20 years.
The government has taken a historic decision.
The local elections will be held in May, paving the way for national level elections later in the year.
The election will be held in a single phase across the country.
India's growth is projected to slow to 6.6 percent in 2016-17 fiscal due to the strains that have emerged in the economy as a result of "temporary disruptions" caused by demonetisation.
As per the International Monetary Fund, the demonetisation would have only short term impact on the economy and it would bounce back to its expected growth of more than eight per cent in the next few years.
India's economy grew at 7.6 percent in 2015-16.
Bharat Forge-GE Pacific Transaction Get CCI Nod
The Competition Commission has approved the GE Pacific buying 49 per cent stake in Alstom Bharat Forge Power and four other deals.
The acquisition of certain retail businesses of Heritage Foods Ltd by Kishore Biyani group firm Future Retail Ltd has also received the green signal from the regulator.
Other transactions cleared by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) are those between Baroda AMC-Amundi S A, International Tractors Ltd-Yanmar Investment Partnership (Singapore) Pte Ltd, and Time Warner-AT&T.
Scientists have spotted seven Earth-sized planets, with mass similar to Earth, orbiting around a dwarf star the size of Jupiter, just 39 light years from the Sun.
The planets’ temperature is low enough to make possible the presence of liquid water on their surface.
This is the first time we have so many Earth-like planets found around a star.
Despite India expanding its military ties with the US, Europe and Israel, Russia remains India’s number one supplier of weapons with America at a distant second.
From 2012 to 2016, Russia supplied 68 per cent of India`s arms import.
In the same period, the US supplied 14 per cent of arms to India, followed by Israel (7.2 per cent).
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