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Members of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum are to meet in Tehran to elect the forum's secretary general next month.

World News: US President-elect Donald Trump chose Exxon Mobil's CEO Rex Tillerson to head the State Department, rejecting concerns over the close relations of the businessman with Russia. Trump's decision cap a long process that has often played in public cracks and exposed within its transition team. He also puts Trump in place for a potential fight with Congress on Tillerson's confirmation, which has connections with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The delay in catching up with the world on 3G and 4G, the Telecom Secretary, J S Deepak says, will not be repeated for 5G. "It has a wider application for the industry including smart cities and management of grids. So we are keen to be with the world," he explained, stating that 5G is going to be important for India's productivity. South Korea is poised to introduce 5G by 2018, the year it is hosting the Winter Olympics.

The United Kingdom (UK) has informed India that the request for extraditing liquor baron Vijay Mallya, declared as a proclaimed offender in a loan default case, has been approved by the UK's secretary of state.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 6 February 2014, while announcing that more than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM is most prevalent and data exist, warned that some 86 million young girls worldwide are likely to experience some form of the practice by 2030.

Donald Trump had an "informal" conversation with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Argentina on Friday, one day after the U.S. president announced that he had decided to cancel a meeting with his Russian counterpart because of new developments in Russia's conflict with Ukraine. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed their discussion at…

President Donald Trump has reportedly told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to prepare a $750 billion budget proposal for 2020, according to Politico's Wesley Morgan. This request comes just months after Trump asked every major cabinet agency to submit proposals cutting their budget by 5% next year, according to The Washington Post. Trump said he wanted…

A Delhi court today summoned as accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 11 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs in Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash assault case. Prakash was allegedly assaulted during a meeting at Kejriwal's official residence on February 19 night.

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BRUSSELS/BEIRUT: NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow's explanation that its warplanes had violated alliance member Turkey's air space by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence.

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Coal Secretary Anil Swarup had earlier said that imports will continue to decline this fiscal due to "unprecedented increase" in output of the fossil fuel by CIL Country's coal imports fell by 15% to 132.3 million tonnes in the first 9 months of the current fiscal, from 155.4 MT a year ago, because of record production by state-owned CIL, a top official said today.