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New Delhi: Two Rohingya men have been jailed for a week for protesting against a controversial plan to repatriate the persecuted minority back to Myanmar, according to Bangladesh police.

Rohingya have erected banners, chanted slogans and staged angry rallies in crowded camps near the border in Cox's Bazar as tension mounts over the looming relocation of hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled a crackdown by the Myanmar military.

Bangladesh insists the repatriation process will be voluntary but police have ramped up security in the camps.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought to know from those who have challenged the constitutional validity of Aadhaar how the unique identification number of a person makes any difference in a networked world when the data was already available with private entities.

A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DipakMisra observed that personal data of citizens were with the private entities and asked the petitioners how insertion of Aadhaar number would make any change.

The apex court also observed that biometric information, which was collected during the process of Aadhaarenrollment, was deposited in a central database and citizens were required to only give their 12-digit unique identifier number for the purpose of identification.

New Delhi: The higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand received a fresh bout of snow yesterday, while sporadic rains have aggravated cold conditions in the plains. 

Fog also caused travel disruptions in some parts of the plains, where temperatures dipped due to overcast skies. 

In Himachal Pradesh, higher reaches including Shimla, Kufri and Narkanda experienced fresh snowfall yesterday, with lower districts receiving intermittent rain.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to take a decision within three months on a letter of Tamil Nadu government, seeking the release of seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. 

A bench, headed by Justice RanjanGogoi, was on Tuesday hearing an application of the convicts that said the state government had decided to release them but was waiting for the Centre’s nod, as required by a court order. The Tamil Nadu government had written the letter in this regard in March 2016.