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New Delhi: Union minister V K Singh has asserted that the government will follow its policy for refugees to tackle the Rohingya issue.

"The government will go according to the policy to deal with refugees ... when the situation is good enough for them to return to their country," he said in Thiruvananthapuram. 

Nobody wants to stay as a refugee, the minister of state for external affairs said.

New Delhi: In Tamil Nadu, the opposition parties led by the DMK have staged a statewide agitation against the medical admission qualifying test NEET on Wednesday. The DMK, the Left parties, the DPI, the IUML and the MMK took part in the protests. 

In Tambaram near Chennai, the DMK working president MK Stalin participated in the demonstrations and said the BJP is running a proxy government in Tamil Nadu and charged that the NEET has been imposed on the students. 

He sought to clarify that though the idea of NEET was initiated during the erstwhile UPA regime in which the DMK was a part, the DMK led Government in Tamil Nadu filed a case against it in the Madras High Court and secured a stay. 

New Delhi: Retail inflation rose to a five-month high of 3.36 per cent in August due to costlier vegetables and fruits. 

According to the data released by the Central Statistics Office, the consumer price index (CPI) based inflation stood at 2.36 per cent in the previous month. 

The August inflation number is the highest since March this year, when it was recorded at 3.89 per cent. Overall food inflation in August also moved up, reversing the deflationary trend, to 1.52 per cent.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that a Hindu married couple may not need to wait six months for a separation order in the case of mutual consent and the marriage can be legally terminated in just a week.

The court ruled that the stipulation under the Hindu Marriage Act for a six-month wait could be done away with if all efforts for mediation and conciliation intended to reunite the parties had failed. The waiving off can be considered if the parties had already lived separately for at least a year. In such situations, the court could take a view that delay in proceedings will only prolong subsequent resettlement.