The delivery of the missile systems, tipped to be over $5 billion, will start in 24 months.
They said they were concerned the terrorism charges were being used to silence people who work to protect the rights of Dalit, tribal and indigenous groups.
The Investigating officers submitted their investigating report on the suicide of Alvas Residential College hostel students at Moodabidri to the Karnataka High Court on Friday.
A retired district judge of Andhra Pradesh and his wife allegedly committed suicide by jumping under running trains here Friday, police said.
A girl in Bihar's Nawada district was tied to a tree and flogged by villagers as a punishment by local panchayat for eloping with a boy from a different caste. The girl's father also stood by the punishment.
A clash over a land dispute turned fatal as a person killed his sister-in-law at Kadakola in Mysuru taluk on Friday.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday said the government is at war with its own people as it wants to impose "one imagination" on 1.3 billion Indians.
Following heavy traffic, the Konkan Railways in association with the South-Western Railways has decided to run two trips of special train between Bengaluru- Karwar- Bengaluru via Jolarpettai, Salem, Palghat and Shoranur routes till October 8.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a day-long tour of Madhya Pradesh Saturday, during which he will attend an event organised by a tribal organisation and also address a public meeting.
Following complaints from people against two government officials on amassing illegal assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths conducted raids on the house and offices of those two government officers in eight places simultaneously and recovered cash and documents of properties worth crores, on Friday.
