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New Delhi, Mar 22 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 5 pm: NATION MDS28 TN-DELIMITATION-LD-MEET

Delimitation: Stalin for legal fight as well, Pinarayi likens exercise to 'sword of Damocles' Chennai: Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK backed first Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting over Lok Sabha delimitation saw a political consensus emerge to bat for 'fair delimitation,' to not lose representation and to fight against having population as the yardstick to determine the number of seats.

DEL17 JNANPITH-LD AWARD

Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla selected for 59th Jnanpith award New Delhi: Eminent Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla was on Saturday named the recipient of the 59th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour. He will be the first writer from Chhattisgarh to receive the award.

DEL12 UP-MEERUT-MURDER-AUTOPSY

Head severed, hands cut off, legs bent back: Autopsy reveals savagery of Meerut killing Meerut (UP): The post-mortem of former merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput has revealed the extreme brutality with which he was killed and the body dismembered allegedly by his wife Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla.

CAL11 MN-LD SC JUDGES

SC judge Justice Gavai urges people of Manipur to work together for restoring peace, harmony Churachandpur/Imphal (Manipur): Justice B R Gavai, who led a delegation of Supreme Court judges that visited Manipur on Saturday, called upon people of the ethnic strife-torn state to work together to restore peace and harmony.

DEL15 UP-MEERUT MURDER-FAST TRACK

Meerut killing: Police plan trial in fast-track court Meerut (UP): A senior police officer Saturday said they would seek to put up Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla, accused of killing her husband Saurabh Rajput, on trial in a fast-track court to secure a swift conviction in the case.

BOM19 MH-VIOLENCE-LD CM

Cost of damage in Nagpur violence will be recovered from rioters: Maharashtra CM Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Saturday that the government will recover the cost of property damage caused during the recent Nagpur violence from the rioters.

MDS27 AP-JAGAN-LD DELIMITATION

Delimitation shouldn't diminish representation of any state in LS, RS, says Jagan to PM Amaravati: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to carry out the delimitation exercise in such a manner that no state would suffer any reduction in representation in the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha, especially in terms of the share of total number of seats in the House.

DEL14 ED-ADVOCATES-CHARGESHEET

ED files charge sheet against advocates, others in Patna railway claims tribunal 'fraud' case New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Saturday said it has filed a charge sheet against some Bihar-based advocates and others in a money laundering case linked to alleged siphoning of funds of deceased persons whose claims were settled by the Railway Claims Tribunal in Patna.

DEL11 CONG-MAKE IN INDIA

Kharge targets govt on 'Make in India' scheme, says it is classic case of 'publicity than delivery' New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday targeted the Modi government on the 'Make in India' scheme and claimed the BJP's promise of making India a global manufacturing hub remains unfulfilled.

LEGAL LGD3 SC-ACQUITTAL

SC upholds acquittal of accused in 1990 murder of Kashmir University VC, junks CBI plea New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of alleged members of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Students Liberation Front (JKSLF) in the sensational 1990 kidnapping and murder case of the then Kashmir University Vice Chancellor, Mushir-ul-Haq, and his personal secretary.

LGD1 SC-JUSTICE VARMA-REPORT

Row over discovery of cash: Delhi HC Chief Justice submits report to CJI New Delhi: Delhi High Court Chief Justice D K Updhyay is stated to have submitted a report to Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna in connection with the alleged discovery of cash from Justice Yashwant Varma's official residence here.

FOREIGN FGN20 US-ASTRONAUTS-TRUMP

Trump says he'll pay out of his pocket overtime for formerly stranded astronauts Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday said he would pay out of his pockets the overtime for astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, who returned to Earth this week after spending nine months in space.

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