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New Delhi: Bangladesh's former Prime Minister and Opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been sentenced to five years in jail in a corruption case. 

72-year-old Zia was sentenced by a special court in the capital, Dhaka, in connection with embezzlement of 252,000 US dollar in foreign donations meant for the Zia Orphanage Trust. 

In the same case, her son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Committee on Road Safety has revealed in a report that figures for those killed on the roads in India came down by 4,560 or 3% in 2017 from 1.51 lakh the previous year

While Punjab, West Bengal and Gujarat have shown a decline, Bihar, UP, Odisha and MP have reported more deaths.

Data show the number of fatalities increased in the October-December period, which proved to be a spoiler to the projection of the total reduction in fatalities by more than 5,000 during the calendar year which saw 1,46,377 lives lost on the roads. 

New Delhi: The Centre has hit back at Congress for leveling "unfounded and misleading" allegations against the Rs 59,000 crore contract for 36 French Rafale fighters.

"The procurement of 36 Rafale aircraft through an Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) with France to meet the urgent need of the IAF is strictly in accordance with the Defence Procurement Procedure in all aspects," said the defence ministry, in a two-page statement.

The MoD said the demand that it disclose the details and value of the contract of the Rafale deal, which was inked in September 2016 after the NDA government scrapped the deadlocked procurement process initiated by the previous UPA regime for acquisition of 126 fighters, was "unrealistic".

New Delhi: Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asserted that that there has been no breach of Aadhaar data and a majority of people in the country trust the scheme as it is completely safe.

"The UIDAI has adequate legal, organisational and technological measures in place for the security of the data stored with UIDAI," he said in Lok Sabha.

He claimed it has a well-designed, multi-layered robust system in place and the same is being constantly upgraded to maintain the highest level of data security.