The Gujarat High Court today dismissed the habeas corpus petition filed by the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti members for the release of their leader Hardik Patel, observing that the plea was not based onaccurate information and was moved in haste.

At least 65 terrorists were killed today as Egyptian security forces pounded their shelters in restive North Sinai. The ground forces, jointly with air forces, targeted shelters of terrorists in the North Sinai cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zwayed, killing 65 terrorists, army spokesperson Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said. 

A case of sedition has been registered against six activists of an anti-liquor group for allegedly making incendiary speeches at a recent meet to demand closure of state-run liquor outlets, drawing sharp reaction from the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The six activists of 'Makkal Adhikaram' were booked by police for allegedly making inflammatory speeches at the event held on February 14 at Tiruchirappalli.

'Makkal Adhikaram' is a group with Left-leanings and running a campaign seeking closure of state-run liquor outlets.

The activists were also booked under other Indian Penal Code sections, including 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) on March 26, police said.

Speaking to reporters at Madurai, senior BJP leader and party election in-charge for Tamil Nadu, Prakash Javadekar slammed the authorities for slapping criminal case against the activists.

In a similar case, last October, ultra-left folk singer Kovan was arrested on sedition charges and for allegedly singing a defamatory song against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa over liquor issue. He was released on bail later. The issue had snowballed into a political controversy.

India today strongly advised its nationals to avoid travelling in 'any circumstances, by any means, for any purpose' to war-torn Yemen, where an Indian nun has been killed and a priest abducted in recent attacks.

Asserting that the security situation in Yemen continues to remain fragile, the external affairs ministry in its advisory said, "In light of the recent terrorist attacks in Aden, which resulted in killing of an Indian nun and abduction of one priest, Indian nationals are again strongly advised to avoid travelling to Yemen under any circumstances by any means for any purpose till further notice."

The ministry also said that it had already issued number of travel advisories wherein Indian nationals have been advised to refrain from undertaking travel to Yemen in view of the precarious security situation in the country.

Tom Uzhunnalil, a priest from Kerala, was abducted by after the Islamic State militant group, which attacked a care home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity.

Gunmen had stormed the refuge for the elderly earlier this month and killed a Yemeni guard before tying up and shooting 15 other employees. Four foreign nuns, including an Indian, working as nurses were among those killed.

Debt-laden infrastructure company IVRCL faced its biggest crisis when a flyover it was constructing in Kolkata collapsed on Thursday, claiming several lives.

The company has not faced an accident of such magnitude in its 27-year history. It had been building the Vivekananda Road flyover in Kolkata for seven years.

Though IVRCL's projects have exceeded execution time-lines, none matched the delay of this one. Promoted by E Sudhir Reddy in 1987, IVRCL started facing financial difficulties in 2012 over shrunken irrigation budgets and project delays.

It ended up with debt of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) and accumulated losses of Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) and went in for a corporate debt restructuring in April 2014.

After blaming God, Hyderabad-based construction company IVRCL which was building the flyover at Kolkata's Girish Park area says it may have collapsed because of a bomb. "The glass was shattered. It could have been a blast," Sheela Peddinti, legal adviser to IVRCL said today.

Twenty-five people were killed in the collapse of the flyover in the crowded commercial area in Kolkata.

At least three FIRs have been filed against the company and the charges include attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy.

Army men along with Kolkata Police disaster management team, National Disaster Response Force and fire fighters pulled out three more bodies from beneath the concrete in the overnight rescue operations, a police officer said on Friday.

The number of people injured in the mishap, he said, was closed to 90.

Nobody alive has been recovered... Two rambled auto rickshaws apart from a few other vehicles have been pulled out. One lorry is still stuck inside... Whether there is anybody trapped inside cannot be said, he said.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of a Delhi Police head constable seeking compensation for his "wrong" portrayal in a video that went viral on social media last year showing him swaying and collapsing in a metro coach in an alleged drunken state.


A bench of Justices J S Khehar and C Nagappan said nobody was guilty as neither the video was doctored, nor had the media circulated it with some ulterior motive.


"What can be done when nobody committed any wrong. You have already come back on duty," the bench said, adding that there was no violation of any fundamental right of Salim P K. The video titled as 'Drunk Delhi Police man on Delhi metro '" Funny' was posted on Facebook by a user which showed Salim struggling to hold on to a pole while swinging back and forth inside the moving metro coach. Salim, who has re-joined the force, had said he was not drunk but at that time was losing consciousness because of a major blockage in his brain while travelling home from duty.

Amid growing clamour for recovering over Rs 9,000 crore dues to banks by now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya-led United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd today said its non-executive, non-independent director Sidhartha V Mallya has vacated the office of director with effect from March 31.


This development comes days after Mallya, who is believed to be in the UK, took to Twitter to ask people not to target his son Siddharth.


"In terms of the provisions of Section 167(b) of the Companies Act, 2013, Mr Sidhartha V Mallya, a Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director of the Company has vacated the office of Director w.e.f. March 31, 2016," UBHL said in a BSE filing.


On Wednesday, on Twitter, Vijay Mallya said: "My son Sid @sidmallya does not deserve all this abuse as he had nothing to do with my business. Slam me if you must but not a young man."

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team will visit Pakistan to further probe the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Punjab's Pathankot earlier this year, the central agency announced today."We told them we want to send a team to Pakistan. They have welcomed the idea," NIA Director General Sharad Kumar said.


The NIA visit to the neighbouring country follows a similar exercise by Pakistan's Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which visited Pathankot earlier this week to probe the attack on the IAF base in which seven security personnel were killed.


On Thursday, the JIT quizzed suspended Gurdaspur SP Salwinder Singh, his cook Mandan Gopal, jeweller friend Rajesh Verma and other witnesses at the NIA headquarters in New Delhi.Singh had claimed that he, Verma and cook Gopal were abducted by four or five heavily armed terrorists near Punjab's Kolia village on January 2.


The terrorists later attacked the Pathankot airbase in which seven security personnel and six terrorists were killed.India has accused Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar of being the mastermind of the attack.


Meanwhile, at the United Nations on Thursday, China, in a dramatic move, once again blocked India' bid to ban Azhar and put him on a terror list.


The UN had banned JeM in 2001, but India's efforts to ban Azhar after the Mumbai terror attack also did not fructify as China, one of the five permanent members of the UN group with veto powers, didn't allow the ban apparently at the behest of Pakistan.

Friday quiz: Who is the boy in the picture?

Answer in an hour. Watch this space.

The explosion took place not far from the Montparnasse area on the left bank of the River Seine in the sixth arrondissement. Some Twitter users speculated whether a gas leak had caused the explosion. Paris police confirm massive explosion in city caused by gas leak.

JUST IN: An explosion has rocked a residential building in central Paris, according to numerous photos and videos released on social media. Residents have reportedly been evacuated from the building. The cause of the blast is yet unknown. The explosion is believed to have occured in the 6th arrondissement (sector or zone, Paris is divided into arrondissments with the central Paris arrondissment I).

India will get its first semi-high speed train Gatimaan Express most likely on April 5. The train which will run at the speed of 160 km/hour between Delhi and Agra will cover the 184 km distance in 105-110 minutes. Its speed is faster than the fastest Shatabdi -- the New Delhi-Bhopal Habibganj Shatabdi Express whose maximum speed is 140-150 km/hour.

Passenger flights could take off again from Brussels Airport on Friday for the first time since two deadly bomb attacks hit the check-in area on March 22. 

Small battlefield nuclear weapons developed by Pakistan could fall into the hands of terrorists if the country does not do more to secure its arsenal, leading western powers have warned. Read

A war of words erupted today over the flyover collapse between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP with Union Minister M A Naqvi accusing the state government of "criminal negligence", which the TMC described as "cheap politics".

Naqvi, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, said that the TMC government showed "criminal negligence" in ensuring relief work and engaging in a "competition on corruption" with the previous Left Front government which had resulted in the flyover collapse claiming 24 lives.


TMC national spokesperson Derek O' Brien termed Naqvi's statements as "cheap politics" in the election season. "The chief minister and the ruling Trinamool Congress have indulged in petty politics of accusing the previous Left Front government. It is not the time to accuse the previous government. If the previous Left Front government had indulged in corruption, then why didn't the TMC government stop it after coming to power? It seems a competition on corruption was on between the two. And the flyover collapse is a result of it," Naqvi told reporters.

A witty response to a routine question... that's MS Dhoni for you. Read

Accusing the erstwhile Left Front regime of making a "faulty plan" for building the flyover, that collapsed yesterday, TMC MP Sudip Bandopadhyay today said there were complaints among the locals about its planning.

"The plan and design of the flyover were made during the Left regime. There were faults in the planning and design of the flyover. The locals had complained about the planning of the flyover but at that time 60 percent work was done. There were also discussions whether the design could be changed," Bandopadhyay, TMC MP from Kolkata North, said.


Asked if there was a hurry on behest of the state government to complete the work before the Assembly election, Bandopadhyay said, "Why will the state government rsuh to complete the work? The government can't inaugurate the bridge as the model code of conduct is on. The work was going on in its own pace."


Meanwhile, the death toll due to the flyover collapse rose to 24 as three more bodies were recovered from underneath the piles of debris. About 60-metre-long portion of the under-construction Vivekananda flyover had collapsed yesterday.

A third woman, a foreign national from Europe and a former TERI employee, has now made allegations of sexual harassment against environmentalist RK Pachauri. The statement was posted by the woman's lawyer Vrinda Gover on Facebook. Grover said the European woman, who worked with Pachauri almost a decade ago, has asked her to make the statement public.

The statement reads:

I have read the story "Rajendra Pachauri speaks out over sexual harassment claims", published in The Guardian. I remember that in the third week of February 2015, I had read some news reports which said that an employee of TERI had filed a criminal complaint against R.K. Pachauri for sexually harassing her.


On reading these news reports, I was 0% surprised. I can very much relate to what the other women wrote in her statement.


When I was 19, I worked for 4 months (end of 2008) at TERI, as Pachauri's secretary. Pachauri's claim that his computer was hacked is totally false. From my point of view, this is right in line with his character, and not a case of his computer being hacked. I think it is important for me to now make my statement public so that people know the truth about Pachauri.


Here is what I recall from my time in TERI.


From the beginning I noted a big difference in the way Pachauri behaved around me, compared to how other Indian men behaved with me. Other men kept a polite distance with limited physical contact. However, from the beginning Pachauri would put his hands on my waist repeated times, he would hug me longer than felt comfortable, kissed me on the cheek and inquired about my private life. I started feeling insecure about his motives for hiring me, and felt extremely uncomfortable being around him.


He would call me during non-working hours and holidays to ask me to come to his office and when arriving it became evident that he had no specific task for me. Pachauri would indulge in frivolous talk and try to get close to me. When nobody else was in the office, I remember feeling very wary of the fact that we were alone in the building, so I would lie and say that a couple of friends were waiting outside.


On one of these occasions, I actually was sick and could not come to the office. He then came to my home with a bouquet of roses. This might sound sweet, but at that time I just felt uncomfortable and scared.


The tipping point came when he said that I should join him in his summer house outside of the city for the weekend. It would have just been him and me there, since he made it very clear that his wife was out of town.


At this point I felt genuinely scared of what his motives for inviting me over were, and I decided to speak out and set a firm limit. I told him that he needed to behave more professionally and that I wanted us to have no other contact than during office hours. He didn't take this very well, it became clear to me that it was not going to work. I recall him being passive aggressive about it and saying in a harsh tone that he was merely trying to make me feel welcome in India, then quickly ending the conversation and saying he was busy.


So, soon after this conversation I asked to be transferred to another department in TERI. My request was granted but he still contacted me and asked me to come to his office a few times after that. After stating that I did not want to work with him anymore, he called me to his office one last time and told me that he decided to end my contract. I left New Delhi a few weeks after that. During these weeks I spoke quite openly about my experience, and I found out from many sources that this was nothing new and that Pachauri has been involved in many similar situations. I heard this from two TERI ex-employees, as well as two other people I met, who had overheard journalists talking about how everybody knows he is a womanizer but no one says anything. May it is gossip, but the picture painted by people I talked to was far from being one of a respectful, professional environmentalist.


My contract, which was for a period of 1 year, was abruptly terminated after a period of just 4 months. When he terminated my contract, I did not think there was any point in contesting it, as from my conversations with former employees at TERI I had gotten the feeling that it would be of little use trying to challenge any decision of Pachauri's. I also felt very relieved that I would not have to face Pachauri's sexual harassment any longer. I left New Delhi a few weeks after this and returned to Europe."

North Korea has officially announced it is blocking Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and South Korean websites in a move underscoring its concern with the spread of online information.


The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announcement was posted this week at the country's main mobile service provider, Koryolink, and other places serving Internet users.Very few North Koreans have Internet access.

Typically they can see only a sealed-off, government-sanctioned intranet. But foreigners had previously been able to surf the Web with almost no overt restrictions, though most likely with behind-the-scenes monitoring of their Internet activities.

Late on Thursday night in parts of Bihar, crowds gathered outside liquor shops for the last time as big discounts and 'buy-one-get-one-free' deals were on offer.


When the clock struck 12, the shops were firmly bolted as partial prohibition came into force in Bihar.


From today, home-made liquor, mostly sold in villages and small towns, is banned.


In bigger cities like Patna and Gaya, alcohol will be available but only at government-run outlets.


Phase 2 of prohibition - when alcohol is completely banned - is meant to be introduced just six months later.


Thousands of liquor bottles have been crushed under tractors after being seized from private shops and warehouses.


"We have destroyed 13.50 lakh bottles of country made liquor... worth Rs 3 crore... Shops are being sealed by the magistrates appointed for the purpose," said Patna District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar Agarwal.


A prohibition police control room will function 24/7 in four shifts, say the police.

The Maharashtra government tells the high court it is against gender discrimination and will strictly implement provisions of the Maharashtra Hindu Place of Worship (Entry Authorisation) Act.

The Bombay High Court had observed on Wednesday that no law prevents women from entering a place of worship and if men are allowed, then women too should be permitted.

The court stated that any temple or person imposing such restriction can face a six month jail term under a Maharashtra law.

What this means is that if men are allowed inside the sanctum sanctorum of temples, so will women. However, if men too are barred, entry to women will be barred as well.

India will purchase some 245 U.S.-made Stinger air-to-air missiles along with launchers and engineering support for its burgeoning fleet of light attack and attack helicopters, according to a press release by the U.S. defense contractor and missile maker Raytheon. Read

No bilateral talks with the US in Washington, but the PM did get up close and personal with the US president at the Nuclear Security Summit Dinner at the White House.

Modi arrived in the United States yesterday to attend the Summit, in which leaders of more than 50 countries will assess the threats of nuclear terrorism.

When Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee and Disaster Management and Fire Minister Javed Khan came a couple of hours after the disaster struck, there was an outpouring of anger.


"Chor hai, sab chor hai' was the chant when they arrived, reports Indian Express. The Mayor, one of the closest lieutenants of Mamata, was purportedly shown taking bribes in a sting operation released recently.

The disaster site is a complex mix in terms of political alignment. It lies at the junction of Kolkata municipal Wards 23, 24 and 25.

While Ward 23 is represented by BJP councillor Bijoy Ojha, the other two are held by Trinamool councillors, one of them being Smita Baxi who is also the Trinamool nominee for the Assembly seat of Jorasanko.

The adjoining seat of Shyampukur is held by Sashi Panja, yet another Trinamool minister in the reckoning.

Dr Ranjit Kumar Dutta, the medical officer of Ward 23, narrated how he saw a bus-load of school children cross underneath the bridge as it came down. It is Gods grace the school bus slipped past the crossing and the kids were saved, he said.

Another witness described watching helplessly as a man writhed, stuck waist down under the heavy girders.

Finally a crane came and tried to lift the portion of the collapsed flyover. The crane wires snapped, bringing down the structure which trapped the man again. He died instantly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today engage with top world leaders including from Canada, Britain, Japan in a series of bilaterals in
Washington on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit, where he would outline India's road map and measures taken to ensure nuclear security.


He is expected to start the day with a bilateral meeting with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau, which would be Modi's first meeting with Trudeau after he was recently elected as Canada's Prime Minister.


This would be followed by back-to-back meetings with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentinian President Mauricio Macri. Cameron is meeting Modi at a time when he is facing the prospect of job loss to some 20,000 people after India's Tata Steel decided to sell its loss-making UK businesses. After the three bilaterals, Modi would participate in the three separate sessions of the Nuclear Security Summit, which kicked off with a White House dinner last night.

Indrani Roy/Rediff.com reports: The sub-contractor in charge of construction of the Vivekananda flyover is Rajat Bakshi. He is the nephew of a well-known Trinamool leader of the area -- Sanjay Bakshi. Rajat's company Sandhya Enterprise was given the work order, sources told Rediff.com on Friday.

TMC MP Sudip Bandopadhyay says it's unfair to blame the party. He said it was not a MP's responsibility to see bridge built.

Yesterday, a senior official of IVRCL, the company building the flyover denied any quality or technical issue as the cause behind the incident "as of now".

"So far in 27 years we have constructed several number of bridges...it (today's collapse) never happened," K Panduranga Rao, Group Head (HR & Admin) of the Hyderabad-based company told reporters.

Two of IVRCL engineers are also missing from the collapsed site, he said, adding, searches are in progress to find them.


When asked about the reason for the collapse, Director (Operations), A G K Murty, said, "It's not due to any quality issue nor any technical issue, as of now".

Murty said that 70 per cent of work on construction of the flyover had been completed, and today 60th slab was being "done" (when it collapsed).

The two officials said the company would cooperate with government agencies.

"Whatever best possible, we will be doing. All the projects have their own insurance...whatever best possible, we will be doing for the people involved", Murty said.

"We are in deep shock. We at the management are also in shock...we are waiting for what's happened. We are checking," the officials added.

Belgium's deeply divided society, its sizeable numbers of alienated Muslims, and its constant search for political compromise have contributed in large measure to its image of a 'weak state', and hence an easy target for terrorists, writes MK Narayanan, former National Security Adviser and former Governor of West Bengal. Read

Army officials, who are working closely with civic authorities and NDRF teams in relief and rescue operations at the flyover collapse site, today said they were not hopeful of finding any more body under the debris.


"The focus of operations is now on debris removal and clearance of the road so that normalcy is restored. As of this morning no more bodies are expected to be found under the rubble," army officials said.


The army rescue teams have been operating throughout the night along with the teams from civil defence, police and NRDF, trying to remove the debris from the affected area.


General Officer in Command of Army's Bengal area Lt Gen Rajeev Tewary is monitoring the progress of the Army teams closely.


Altogether there are close to 300 Army personnel including medical teams, surgeons, engineers and gas cutters working on the spot of flyover collapse in northern Kolkata.

PDP President Mehbooba Mufti will be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on April 4, a party leader said today.

"Mehbooba Mufti sahiba will be sworn in as Chief Minister of J-K on April 4," PDP leader Amitabh Mattoo said.

Mattoo, who worked as an advisor to former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, expressed the hope that 56-year-old Mehbooba would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in the region.

Meanwhile, sources in PDP and its alliance partner BJP said they have also conveyed the mutually agreed date for the swearing-in ceremony to state Governor N N Vohra.

The date for the oath ceremony of the new cabinet was decided after deliberations between the leadership of both the parties, they said. Asked whether there were any differences between the coalition partners which led to delay in the swearing-in ceremony, the sources said there were no differences but deliberations between alliance partners happen and they take time.

PDP and BJP had staked claim for government formation on March 26, two days after Mehbooba was elected as PDP's legislature party leader.

Doing the rounds on social media... and merits a share.

When Tata Steel paid out a hefty $13.1 billion to acquire Corus in 2007, Chairman Ratan Tata described it as a defining moment for the company. It is not hard to see why he thought this may be so.


It made Tata Steels capacity grow three times, put the company on the global map, and spread the risks of the business of making steel. The investment was made in a climate when there was a tremendous buzz about outward foreign direct investment (FDI), a time when a clutch of Indian industrialists were persuaded to see value in making foreign investments at extremely heady prices, which were sought to be justified on the basis of over-optimistic profit projections and growth forecasts for the world economy.


In hindsight, it is apparent that the acquisition was a bad strategic decision, but it would have been difficult, if not well nigh impossible, to predict such things as the Eurozones slide into recession and the abrupt and unexpected slowdown in China. The damage was compounded by cheap Chinese steel flooding western markets.  Read more

With relief and rescue operations in full swing in Kolkata's Girish Park where a flyover collapsed yesterday, the National Disaster Response Force on Friday said that the chances of finding any survivors is remote.


"The operations continued throughout the night. As many as10 NDRF teams are working there... Possibility of finding anyone alive is very very remote," Director General of NDRF, OP Singh told ANI.


Meanwhile, NDRF DIG, SS Guleria said that the operation is in its last phase, adding that their first priority is to ensure ensured that there are no dead bodies trapped under the debris.


"Some debris being removed and it is being insured that there are no dead bodies under the debris...Now the operation is only for the recovery of dead bodies and removal of debris...As per the reports available here, 25 persons are dead so far," he said.


Pic: A dead body being carried from the accident site/Abhiroop Dey Sarkar.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is otherwise known as an apolitical person, finally spoke on the infamous Bofors scam which had earned a bad name for him and his family. Big B took to his blog to express himself and said his existence was questioned when he and his family were accused in Bofors case and it took them 25 painful years to emerge out of the scandal despite their innocence.

A five-member Kolkata police team has reached Hyderabad to probe IVRCL and few officials have been questioned. IVRCL is the construction company that was building the flyover that collapsed. Yesterday, after the flyover collapsed, an official from the company said that they still had no idea of the sequence of events that led to the accident and such a thing had never happened to them in their 27-year history.  

Speaking for the first time since her release from a Lebanese prison last year, Saja al-Dulaimi who was married to the most wanted man in the world- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Islamic State has revealed she fears for the daughters she bore with him.

Problems with the under construction Vivekanand Road flyover in central Kolkata began during midnight on Wednesday when concrete casting was being done, construction workers said. 

Kolkata Police has filed a case of culpable homicide and sealed the offices of construction company IVRCL after the collapse of the flyover, which claimed the lives of 24 people. 

Today's iOS 9.3.1 release is available as an over-the-air update for all iOS 9 users and it can also be downloaded through iTunes. iOS 9.3.1 is the seventh update to iOS 9, following iOS 9.0.1, iOS 9.0.2, iOS 9.1, iOS 9.2, iOS 9.2.1, and iOS 9.3.

Seven police officers have been killed in a car bombing in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir.

A man was allegedly dragged for half-a-km after being hit by a car whose driver made a bid to escape from the accident spot on Old Delhi road in Gurgaon.

India and the US today signed an MoU for setting up a new Laser Interferometer Gravitational- Wave Observatory in India that will play significant role in carrying forward frontline research on various aspects of gravitational wave astronomy. 

The Pakistani Joint Investigating Team probing the Pathankot terror strike in India on Thursday examined 13 witnesses, including former Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh.

Two Virginia state police troopers and a woman were rushed to a hospital Thursday afternoon after a shooting at a Greyhound Bus Station in Richmond, Va, according to law enforcement authorities.

In the wake of President's rule being imposed in Arunchal Pradesh and Uttarakhand owing to a crisis in the ruling party, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said he will never let such an "incident" be repeated in the national capital. 

Naveen Jindal has resigned from the board of Jindal Stainless Ltd, a company led by his brother Ratan Jindal. The resignation of Naveen -- Chairman of steel-to-power group Jindal Steel and Power -- from JAL Board is with effect from yesterday.

Donald Trump scrambled to clarify his position on abortion Wednesday after he said women who undergo the procedure should face "some form of punishment" should the practice be outlawed.

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