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The Allahabad High Court has ruled that if Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal surrenders before a court in Amethi district within four weeks, no coercive action shall be taken against him till then in a criminal case pending in the lower court. Kejriwal had sought a direction to quash the order of the court of judicial magistrate, Amethi, which dismissed his petition for exemption of his personal attendance. Earlier, on August 3, the High Court had stayed for four weeks a bailable warrant issued against the Delhi chief minister by the court in Amethi in connection with his alleged inflammatory speech in the district during the Lok Sabha election last year.

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Binod Chaudhary, a Nepali businessman of Indian-origin, has found place on the cover of Forbes Asia's September issue for his efforts to rebuild the quake-hit nation. Forbes magazine had listed him as the first billionaire of the country in 2013. 60-year-old Chaudhary, president of Chaudhary Group is working on a project that would construct 10,000 earthquake proof houses for the quake victims in the country, after buildings were damaged in the devastating earthquake that rocked the country on 25 April and killed nearly 9,000 people.

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A group of ex-servicemen, on 28 August, approached Home Minister Rajnath Singh to demand an early implementation of the One Rank One Pension Scheme. They discussed various aspects of the scheme and gave a detailed representation to the Home Minister to prove that their demand was justified. Rajnath Singh listened to the ex-servicemen and then gave them an assurance that appropriate steps will be taken. The ex-servicemen have been protesting for more than two months at Jantar Mantar in the national capital demanding early implementation of OROP. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar also hinted that the government might take a positive step towards implementation of the scheme.

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Sanjeev Khanna, the former husband of Indrani Mukherjea, arrested in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case has confessed to his complicity, Mumbai Police chief, Rakesh Maria has claimed in a late night press conference on Friday.

NDTV quoted him as saying, "We interrogated the third accused (Khanna) and he has confessed to complicity in the crime. We have also recovered her (Sheena's) passport from Dehra Dun, which negates the theory that Sheena Bora went to the US."

Khanna was taken to an undisclosed location for joint interrogation with Indrani and her driver S P Rai, who the police said in a court had abducted 25-year-old Sheena in a car and took her to a forest in Pen town of Raigad district where they strangulated her.

Pakistani Rangers resorted to unprovoked shelling on civilian areas along the international border in R S Pura sector of Jammu and Kashmir on 28 August. Three people lost their lives and more than a dozen got seriously injured in the attack. The Director Generals of Pakistan Rangers and Border Security Force are going to meet on 6 September in Delhi to discuss about the situation on Indo-Pak border. According to media reports, the Pakistani Rangers started firing during the midnight and then escalated their attack later in the day. Earlier, the NSA talks between India and Pakistan were called off because Kashmiri separatist leaders had invited the Pak NSA to meet them and India did not agree with it.