Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber has struck a cafe in the western city of Hit, killing 11 people.

The city's security bureau says 15 other people were wounded in today's blast, and that the victims are all civilians. It says emergency services and security forces are at the scene. The city is located in the sprawling Anbar province.

India will work with Japan to make long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) import deals more affordable for its price-sensitive consumers, it said on Wednesday, as these two big importers try to secure better prices and concessions from suppliers.

The arrangement will help state-run GAIL India Ltd swap a part of its 5.8 million tonnes of LNG booked with firms from the United States with that of Japan's contracted volumes in Asia and elsewhere, Sunjay Sudhir, joint secretary for international cooperation in India's federal oil ministry, told Reuters.

State-owned Air India has taken the delivery of its last Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which will be inducted in its fleet tomorrow.

The new plane was delivered to Air India in the presence of its chairman and managing director Rajiv Bansal at the Seattle facility of the US aircraft maker Boeing Co, an airline source said.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the country's market regulator, filed a contempt petition against Sahara's Subrato Roy and other senior executives for allegedly obstructing the auction of its prized Aamby Valley.

Representing SEBI, advocate Pratap Venugopal, mentioned the matter before a bench led by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and submitted that the approximately Rs 37,000 crore project "had adopted subterfuge methods to avoid auction of the property."

NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) has beamed back an image showing one possible place where sand grains are being produced on the red planet today.

The region exhibits dark material that is being eroded from dark layers in the bedrock of a semicircular depression near the boundary of the Southern highlands and the Northern lowlands, NASA researchers said.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today said Indian Railways will be making an investment of around Rs 2,000 crore, in the next couple of years, for expansion of its various manufacturing units across the country.

The capacity of the Rae Bareli coach factory alone is expected to be increased five times to 5,000 coaches per year, the minister said at a CII event in New Delhi. However, he did not divulge the timeline for the same.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was trading 2% higher at Rs 2,510 on the BSE in an otherwise subdued market ahead of July-September quarter (Q2FY18) results on Thursday, October 12, 2017.

Since July 13, 2017, post April-June (Q1FY18) results, the stock was marginally up by 0.63% against 0.35% decline in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex till Tuesday.

Calcutta, Oct. 10: Coal India has signed a five-year wage agreement with its workers' unions, which will have an estimated impact of Rs 5,667 crore annually on the public sector miner.

The "Memorandum of Agreement for National Coal Wage Agreement-X has been signed on October 10 for a period of five years from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2021", Coal India said in a filing to the BSE today.

New Delhi: In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday criminalised sexual relations between a man and his minor wife under the offence of rape. This move will go a long way in discouraging the prevalent practice of child marriage in India.

In a concurring judgment, passed by justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, the court read down the provision of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which exempted marital rape in case of minors. The earlier age of 15 years has now been modified to 18 years for claiming exemption under the amended rape provisions.

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