India will pay about $2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia, according to people familiar with the matter, finalising delivery of the vessel after roughly a decade of talks just as President Vladimir Putin makes a visit to Delhi.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to consider allowing Sonali Khatun, a pregnant woman, and her child, who were pushed into Bangladesh this year, to enter India on “humanitarian grounds”.

Devavrat, who trained in the Shukla Yajurveda tradition, has successfully completed the Dandakrama Parayanam, one of the most complex and rarely practised forms of Vedic recitation