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Any nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers loosening sanctions against Tehran could flood an oversupplied oil market with more fuel, yet sectors like cement and steel would see a rise in demand.

The toll from a car bombing near a NATO base in Afghanistan which occurred on Sunday, has risen to 33.

An appeal has been filed by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the hit-and-run case.

The rupee ended lower by 13 paise at 63.52 against the US dollar.

With industries defaulting on payments to the tune of over Rs 2900 crore over the last two years, Karnataka has seen a spate of farmers' suicides.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday slammed BJP government in the state, saying it has no time to address drought-like situation in Maharashtra.

This comes barely two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif broke the ice at Ufa in Russia and decided to revive the stalled dialogue process.

"I am fully with Shivrajji and will rather say that he is running the state government better than me. He has more patience than me," Bharti said.

"We have constituted a group of leading constitutional experts which is deeply studying this issue after which we will definitely approach the Supreme Court and seek its intervention in removing this unconstitutional law," he said.

About 1.07 million people in the province had been evacuated and 29,641 ships recalled to port. The water level of 37 large and medium-sized reservoirs had exceeded the danger level.

Like his maternal grandmother Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and Priyanka, the 14-year-old mingled with villagers and sought to know more about their life.

An editorial in the Dawn over the meeting that took place on Friday between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Modi in Russia said that "progress in the India-Pakistan relationship depends on whether the political leadership is invested in it".

The incident occurred when 8 persons, who were cutting grass near Sitamarhi Milk Producers' Cooperative building, were quarrelling on the possession of grass with a group of villagers on Friday night

Born Michel Demetri Chalhoub on April 10, 1932 in a Catholic family of Lebanese descent, Sharif started his career in Egyptian films in 1953.

Vashishth was shot dead in an encounter at a restaurant in Patel Nagar area of the national capital.

Modi arrived at Turkmenistan's Ashgabat Airport on the fourth leg of his Central Asia tour that will also take him to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.