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New Delhi: The two Koreas agreed during rare talks on Wednesday to form a combined women's ice hockey team to take part in next month's Winter Olympics in the South, and march together under a unified peninsula flag at the opening ceremony, a joint statement released by Seoul's unification ministry said.

North Korea will send a 550-member delegation of about 550, including 230 cheerleaders, 140 artists and 30 Taekwondo players for a demonstration, the statement said.

New Delhi: Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel has asserted that not Hindutva but Hindustan (India) is in danger as various sections of the society are under threat.
After meetingVishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international president PravinTogadia- who had mysteriously gone disappeared for around 12 hours on Monday,  Hardik said, "I do not believe that Hindtuva is in danger but I firmly believe that chief of the Hindu organisation is in danger. I must say that farmers are in danger and unemployed youths are in danger. Thus entire Hindustan (India) is in danger. People know who conspired this plan of making Togadia disappeared," said Hardik before reporters on being asked if he thinks that 'Hindutva' is in danger.

New Delhi: Tripura CPM state secretary has shot off a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, demanding an inquiry into the reasons for National Security Advisor AjitDoval's presence at a BJP-RSS meet to discuss elections in the north eastern states of Tripura, Mehghalaya and Nagaland.

Earlier, the Left had sought a clarification from Union home minister Rajnath Singh over the episode.

Attaching copies of newspaper reports that claim Doval was present at the BJP-RSS' election strategy meeting for the poll-bound north eastern states, Tripura state secretary of CPM, BijanDhar referred to the move as a "misuse of administration" that is a "real threat to the democratic system of the country".

New Delhi: The government has decided to strike off the names of 1.20 lakh more companies from the official records for various non-compliances as part of its continuing fight against the black money menace.

Nearly 2.26 lakh companies have already been deregistered and around 3.09 lakh directors associated with these entities have been disqualified. The latest decision to strike off more 1.20 lakh companies from official records came after a review meeting of the actions taken with respect to deregistered firms last week.

Minister of State for Corporate Affairs P PChaudhary, who chaired the review meeting, has directed officials to expedite action against the companies that are to be struck off the records.