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The Wassenaar Arrangement is a group of countries which control the export of conventional weapons and dual-use goods and technologies. The group, which came into being in 1996, aims at maintaining regional and international security and stability. India was admitted to the group on Thursday and will become its 42nd member on completion of procedural arrangements.

Indian government will take all possible steps to ensure that we do not lag behind in our efforts towards extradition of Vijay Mallya to India, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. Mallya is wanted in India for charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to ₹9,000 crore. His extradition trial began at a UK court on Monday.

Time magazine has honoured 24-year-old US national Ian Grillot, who was shot in the chest while trying to intervene during a racially-motivated attack against Indians in Kansas in February. The magazine featured Grillot's name among '5 Heroes Who Gave Us Hope in 2017'. "I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I didn't do anything," Grillot said.

The 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim and his long-time aide Chhota Shakeel have split after a 30-year-long association over Dawood's brother Anees Ibrahim's interference in the operations of the D-Company, according to reports. However, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is trying to broker peace between the two to be able to continue its anti-India activities, reports added.

Foreign workers in the US may work for more than one employer on an H1-B work visa, the country's immigration agency said. "New employer must submit an I-129 petition before you begin working," it added. Form I-129 is submitted for a non-immigrant worker to the agency and used by employers and prospective employers to obtain workers on non-immigrant visa status.

Chhota Shakeel, the long-time aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has denied the reports of his split with Dawood. "There's no question about me getting apart from the D-Company till my last breath...I'm very much with bhai," Shakeel reportedly said. Shakeel is known as Dawood's most trusted aide and has been handling the D-Company's activities for 30 years.

Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal on Saturday tweeted that the visa applications of former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav's wife and mother had been received and were being processed. This will be Jadhav's first meeting with his family since his arrest in March 2016. Pakistan has reportedly rejected India's plea for consular access to Jadhav over 30 times.

In a bid to extract sensitive information, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) employed women to attempt luring three Indian officials posted in Islamabad and film them in compromising positions, according to a report. The officials identified the ISI's ploy and reported the incident to Indian authorities. They have been recalled from Pakistan and are not suspected of any wrongdoings.

Pakistan on Thursday said it will release 291 Indian fishermen, who were held for allegedly illegally fishing in its territorial waters, on humanitarian grounds. The fishermen will be released in two phases on December 29 and January 8 via Wagah Border, Pakistan spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said. Last week, Pakistan force said the authorities had arrested 400 Indian fishermen this year.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja M Asif has said that the country has granted India 'consular access' to former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav. This comes after Pakistan allowed India's Deputy High Commissioner to accompany Jadhav's mother and wife to meet him. However, India has refuted the claim, saying allowing a diplomat to meet him cannot be termed as 'consular access'.

Former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court, met his mother and wife at the Pakistan Foreign Ministry in Islamabad today. Pakistan also allowed an Indian diplomat to accompany them for the meeting. Pakistani officials have announced they would release the photos and video of the meeting to the media.

Three jawans of India's Border Security Force (BSF) were captured by Bangladesh Army after they inadvertently entered their territory. Adding that the border between India and Bangladesh has no clear demarcation, reports said the soldiers crossed over the border due to thick fog in the area. The jawans will be handed back to India after a flag meeting.

A 46-year-old woman from Ludhiana has alleged that she is being forced to serve as a slave by her employers in Saudi Arabia. In a video sent to her daughter, the woman claimed that she was tricked into working as a domestic help by her travel agent. She added that her employers physically assaulted her and deprived her of food.

India is using the Afghan soil to hatch conspiracies against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said. Adding that the "enemies of Pakistan" were using different tactics to damage CPEC, Iqbal said that Pakistan would foil any such plans. This comes after China and Pakistan offered to include Afghanistan in CPEC.

The CBI has booked three men for taking 25 Indian boys aged between 13 and 18 years to France under the pretext of a Rugby training camp and deserting them at a Gurudwara. The racket came to light after the French authorities apprehended one of the boys. While two boys have returned, 22 other boys are yet to be traced.

Palestine on Saturday recalled its ambassador to Pakistan, Walid Abu Ali, after India expressed displeasure over his presence at a rally organised by 26/11 mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, officials said. Expressing regret over the incident, Palestine said it highly values its relationship with India and will not engage with those who commit acts of terror against it.

Indian-origin scientist Pratibha Laxman Gai has been named for damehood, the female equivalent of knighthood, for "services to chemical sciences and technology". Gai has over 300 referred scientific papers in leading journals and nine co-authored and edited books and journal issues. She is the fourth Indian-origin woman awarded the honour since it was instituted in 1917.

Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed's aide Maulana Ameer has claimed that Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI was behind the ill-treatment of the family of Kulbhushan Jadhav. Pakistan had forced Jadhav's mother and wife to remove their bindi and mangalsutra before their recent meeting. The former Indian Navy officer had been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court over alleged espionage.

Amid reports that Chinese troops had intruded into the Indian side of the border in Arunachal Pradesh, China on Wednesday said it had "never acknowledged the existence of so-called Arunachal Pradesh". "I want to mention that between China and India, there is a well-developed mechanism for border-related affairs," it added. China claims Arunachal Pradesh is part of South Tibet.