National & International news updates of Dec 20

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Here are the news in brief for Sunday, December 21, 2014:

7.00 pm: Everyone has given their statements, no point making an issue out of nothing, says BS Hooda on Robert Vadra's file issue.

6.30 pm: Snowfall in Gulmarg, tourists ride sledge as Kashmir braces for the coldest period "Chilay Kalan" of the winters.

6.00 pm: Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said there is no conflict between the BJP and the RSS over the issue of religious conversions.

5.30 pm: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee calls BJP leader SN Singha "kulangaar" (black sheep) of his family.

5. 00pm: NIA and Assam Police recover 10 bombs from Barpeta district, Assam

4.30 pm: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says, the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport will be operational by 2019.

4.15 pm: Anant Vikram Singh, son of Congress Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, joins BJP along with his supporters.

4.00 pm: BJP MLA Bhawani Singh Rajawat disgraces the party and is seen threatening voters.

3.40 pm: North Korea seeks joint probe into Sony cyber attack with the US.

1.50 pm: US Congress member Tulsi Gabbard visits Bengaluru.

12.50 pm: 7-year-old girl gangraped by 4 underaged boys in Kalaburagi, Karnataka; all 4 arrested

12.40 pm: Tihar inmates to get life insurance cover under Jan Dhan Yojna: PTI

11.40 am: Opposition takes on the VHP over conversion of 200 Hindu families to Christianity in Gujarat's Valsad.

10.05 am: Former Union minister D Napoleon to join the BJP on Sunday. [Read story]

9.40 am: United Nations refers to 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed as 'Sahib' in a letter, leaves India fuming. [Read story]

Didn't violate any law, says Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was taken off her duties by the Ministry of External Affairs.

8.40 am: Australian authorities charge woman in Cairns with the murder of seven children and her niece: BBC

8.32 am: New York: 2 police officers shot dead [Read story]

8.30 am: Three persons were killed while four were injured in an IED blast in Khoyathong area of Imphal, Manipur.

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