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A day after North Korea's foreign minister said that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Washington isn't taking the proposal seriously and Pyongyang would "have to do better than that."

United beat Everton 2-1 on Saturday.

Leicester`s victory had the added effect of ending the title bids of both third-place Manchester City and fourth-place Arsenal, who were held to a 0-0 draw at struggling Sunderland.

Days after saying that entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur temple will lead to crimes such as rapes against them, Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati on Sunday claimed that cow slaughter and export of beef have increased since BJP came to power at the Centre.

Nadal, who will target a 10th French Open title next month, had not won back-to-back titles since 2013.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken due cognisance of the plea of Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur, who urged the Centre to mend the incumbent loopholes in judicial system for efficient results.

All the track events were hand-timed as the photo-finish equipment was not switched on due to power failure.

Rebel Congress leader Vijay Bhauguna mocked former chief minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat over attending a rally organised on the occasion of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna's Jayanti and said that the ousted state chief should practice the late leader's ideals.

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Sunday predicted a "social revolution" in the country when hunger and deprivation will unite the masses irrespective of their caste, creed or religion.

Goa is all set to launch seaplane and amphibian rides for tourists, a top state government official said here on Sunday.

Several Tripura Congress leaders on Sunday quit their party posts to protest against the party's tie-up with the Left in West Bengal's assembly polls.

It was Pune's fourth successive loss in five matches.

Yemeni troops backed by air power from a Saudi-led coalition on Sunday recaptured a southeastern provincial capital held by al Qaeda for the past year, a military officer told AFP.

A year after a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, 1.6 million school children in affected areas are still without safe classrooms and starting their new academic year in temporary structures.

Over 40,000 people have been affected and 1,000 hectares of crop land inundated by flood waters following pre-monsoon rains for the past one week in Assam, officials said on Sunday.

A 76-year-old retired vice principal of a government school in Delhi was killed while resisting a robbery bid at his house, police said, suspecting someone known to the victim to be behind the incident.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Sunday held yet another mammoth road show in the city, this time in her constituency Bhowanipore, urging people to bring her to power again.

The Janata Dal-United on Sunday suspended its Rajya Sabha MP Anil Sahni from its parliamentary board over his alleged role in the Leave and Travel Concession (LTC) scam.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met a young girl in Jamshedpur who lost her father in the Patna blast in October 2013.

The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats or their centre-right coalition partners the People's Party.

Besides, a scheme was also being prepared to start metro rail in tri-city (Chandigarh-Mohali-Paunchkula) which would benefit the people, Khattar said.

The attack happened late yesterday outside the Antigo High School prom, said Eric Roller, the chief of police in Antigo, a community of about 8,000 people roughly 150 miles north of Milwaukee.

Stray incidents of violence, in which one person was killed, marred the first phase of the three-tier Bihar panchayat polls which recorded a 55 per cent voter turnout.

Two persons were killed in a gun battle between rival groups on the campus of Aligarh Muslim University, forcing authorities to deploy Rapid Action Force and order a "major clean-up" operation in AMU hostels.

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