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Uttar Pradesh government today decided to recommend a CBI probe into the mysterious death of Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari.
Talking to media persons at Lucknow this evening, Principal Home Secretary Arvind Kumar and Director General of Police Sulkhan Singh said, government is committed for impartial probe into the matter. 
They said, family members of the deceased officer today met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and sought CBI probe terming the mysterious death as murder of Mr Tiwari.

The Election Commission has withdrawn its notification to hold biennial election to ten seats from Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal in Rajya Sabha. 
The term of six members of the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and three from Gujarat was due to expire in August and one from Goa in July this year. Earlier the elections were scheduled on 8th of next month.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned North Korea's latest missile test and vowed to push all countries to tighten sanctions against Pyongyang. In a unanimous statement backed by China, Pyongyang's ally, the council instructed its sanctions committee to redouble efforts to implement a raft of tough measures adopted last year. 
The council also agreed to take further significant measures including sanctions to force North Korea to change course and end its highly destabilising behaviour.

A special court of National Investigation Agency (NIA) today convicted all the 15 accused in connection with the two cases registered with the premier agency relating to diversion of public funds towards terror activities. 
The Court held 13 accused in the first case and two in the second case guilty of charges framed against them.