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Following are the top stories at 12 pm:

NATION

BOM3 CG-NAXAL-ENCOUNTER 5 Maoists killed, two jawans injured in gunfight in Chhattisgarh

Raipur: Five Maoists were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.

BOM1 MH-BUILDING COLLAPSE Two dead, five injured as building collapses in Maharashtra

Thane: At least two persons were killed and five others injured after a four-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi town in the district early on Saturday, barely an hour after it was evacuated as cracks were seen in it, an official said.

DES2 DL-DU-BUSTS-ABVP DUSU removes busts of Savarkar, others from campus

New Delhi: The ABVP-led Delhi University Students' Union has removed the busts of V D Savarkar, Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose from the campus, the student outfit said in a statement on Saturday.

DEL2 CRPF-OFFICER-SUICIDE CRPF officer kills self in Kashmir

New Delhi: A 33-year-old Assistant Commandant of the CRPF posted in Kashmir allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself from his personal weapon, officials said Saturday.

LEGAL

LGD2 SC-CPI(M) J-K: Yechury moves SC for production of detained CPI(M) leader Tarigami

New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court for production of party leader Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, who has been under detention in Jammu and Kashmir since the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370, the party said on Saturday

FOREIGN

FES14 US-KASHMIR-STRATEGY

US working on two-prong strategy to ease Indo-Pak tensions over Kashmir issue: Senior officials Washington: The US is working on a two-pronged strategy to defuse fresh tensions between India and Pakistan after New Delhi revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, senior officials from the Trump administration here said. By Lalit K Jha

FGN6 NKOREA-SKOREA-LD MISSILES

North Korea fires 'short-range ballistic missiles' into sea: Seoul Seoul: North Korea Saturday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea after vowing to remain the biggest "threat" to the United States and branding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as "toxin."

FES17 UK-SIKH-ATTACK

British Sikh choked to death in Thailand London: A 34-year-old British Sikh man has been choked to death by a drunk Norwegian man after they got into an argument at a hotel in Thailand, according to a media report.

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