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Smith and Warner’s IPL performances were taken into consideration and the selectors are confident that the return of the pair in the World Cup will help Australia defend their title.
 

The Election Commission's order to ban PM Modi's biopic came just a day before the release of the movie. However, the film's tickets are still being sold on BookMyShow.

Accordingly, professional programmes including medicine, engineering, architecture, nursing, dental, pharmacy and physiotherapy, are not permitted and cannot be offered in distance mode.
 

The government of India has banned Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), taking strong action against terrorism. According to the government, the decision to ban the organisation was taken after the Pulwama attack. A total of 37 FIRs have been registered by J&K Police against JKLF

The Bengaluru RTO has cancelled the Ola Cabs service in Bengaluru for six months for flouting rules by providing bike taxi services in the city

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Hoda Muthana who left America in 2014 to marry an ISIS fighter was not a US citizen and is banned from returning to the country

The deceased has been identified as KM Mishra (84), father of IPS officer Rajendra Mishra. The elderly person was admitted at the Bansal Hospital on January 13 and was being treated by Dr Ashwini Malhotra.

Only chants of Quranic verses will play on flights to Jeddah and Madina, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) spokesperson confirmed, stating that the decision was taken bearing pilgrims' sentiments in mind.

The food safety commissioner Anand Singh ordered a ban on the production and procurement and sale of these 74 coconut oil brands due to adulteration. Earlier, on June 30, 51 brands were banned after samples of their oil were found to be contaminated

The government has asked the people to refrain from keeping or carrying Indian bank notes higher than Rs 100 denomination as it has not legalised them, Nepal's minister for information and communications Gokul Prasad Baskota said

The head of the Pejawara Mutt, Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji, has lauded the ban and said that putting an end to this age-old tradition would not harm Hinduism in any way