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The Supreme Court will be delivering the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid verdict on Saturday at 10.30 a.m.

The lawyers in Delhi's district courts have decided to suspend their strike "for the time being" and resume work from Monday, the Bar Council of India (BCI) said on Friday.

The decision was taken in a joint meeting of BCI, Bar Council of Delhi and the Coordination Committee of District Court Bar Associations of Delhi held on Friday.

The lawyers had been on strike since November 2 after their clash with Delhi police personnel and officers at the Tis Hazari court. The litigants have been suffering due to the strike as they were not being allowed to enter the courts’ premises to reach court rooms.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday attacked his alliance partner BJP, saying that he stopped talks with the party as it tried to prove him a liar. He said his party is “firm” on the demand for chief minister’s post.

He alleged there was an attempt to finish off Shiv Sena with “sweet talk” by BJP.

The Congress on Friday criticised the Modi govt for withdrawing the SPG security cover to Nehru-Gandhi family despite a serious threat to their lives. It alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah has been “blinded by personal revenge and political vendetta” against its leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.

Fadnavis drove to Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai and submitted his resignation to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, sources said.

There has been no headway in government formation even a fortnight after Assembly poll results were announced on October 24.

The BJP and Shiv Sena are locked in a tussle over the issue of the chief minister's post, resulting in a stalemate in government formation despite the Assembly poll results giving the alliance a combined seat strength of 161, way past the 145 majority mark in the 288-member House.

In the polls, the BJP won 105 seats, Shiv Sena-56, NCP-54 and the Congress won 44 seats.

Modi govt withdraws SPG cover of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka. They will be provided 'Z+' security cover of CRPF on all-India basis

Pakistan has conveyed to India that people travelling through the Kartarpur corridor on Saturday will also have to pay the USD 20 fee, sources said Friday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan last week announced that no fee would be charged from the pilgrims on the opening day of the corridor and on Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary.

The Kartarpur Corridor will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur, just four kilometres from the International Border, located at Narowal district of Pakistan's Punjab province.

Youth Congress workers who were protesting near Reserve Bank of India (RBI) office on the third anniversary of Demonetisation have been detained by Police

CBI's appeal against protection from arrest for Sr adv Indira Jaising & Anand Grover in a foreign funding case to be taken up by the Supreme Court on Nov 14.

SC tags CBI's appeal with a writ petition that had sought expeditious probe against the lawyers' NGO Lawyers Collective.

Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal, Rajeev Dhawan and Colin Gonsalves were present in Court for Jaising and Grover.

The BJP should approach the Shiv Sena only if it agrees to share the chief minister's post with the junior saffron ally in Maharashtra, senior Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Friday.

Talking to reporters here, he said the BJP should not misuse the provision of "caretaker" government and remain in power in Maharashtra, where there is an impasse over the next dispensation.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should resign as the term of the existing assembly is ending (on November 9), the Sena spokesman said.

“It’s 3 yrs since the Demonetisation terror attack that devastated the Indian economy, taking many lives, wiping out lakhs of small businesses & leaving millions of Indians unemployed. Those behind this vicious attack have yet to be brought to justice,” tweeted Rahul Gandhi

A soldier was killed as Pakistan violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Friday, an Army official said.

Pakistan fired at forward posts along the LoC around 2.30 am in Krishnaghati sector in Poonch, in which the Army personnel was killed, the official said.

Indian troops carried out retaliatory firing, he added.

Heavy rains lashed parts of Thane and Palghar districts till early hours of Friday, the district disaster management control (DDMC) said.

Although no casualties were reported during the downpour that began late on Thursday night, low-lying areas in the districts witnessed water-logging, a DDMC report stated.

According to the report, seashore villages of Dahanu, Chinchani, Boisar, Safale and Kelve in Palghar district received heavy showers.

As the political crisis in Maharashtra continued for the 15th day and 48 hours remained before the state assembly's tenure expires on November 9, the Shiv Sena on Thursday accused ally Bharatiya Janata Party of "pushing the state towards President's Rule".

"It (the BJP) is the single-largest party... If it is so confident, it should stake claim to form the government and submit a list of 145 supporting MLAs. If they can't do it, they should publicly announce it and prepare to sit in Opposition," Sena MP Sanjay Raut said.

"By not initiating any steps to form the government, the BJP is now allowing other options and deliberately pushing the state to President's Rule. This is an insult to the people of Maharashtra. The times have changed. After you are out of power, the politics of 'Saam, Daam, Dand and Bhed' will not work," he said in another sharp attack on BJP.

The United States has announced the increase of H-1B work visa application fee by USD 10 as part of its revised selection process.

This non-refundable fee will support the new electronic registration system to make the H-1B cap selection process more efficient for both petitioners and the federal agency, said the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Thursday.