Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the United States was fragmenting the very international system which Washington helped to create.

The tit-for-tat petitions filed by the Enforcement Directorate and West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress in connection with the raids on the party’s election consultancy firm I-PAC were dismissed by the Calcutta High Court today.

Popular singer-songwriter Zubeen Garg, who drowned in Singapore last September, declined a life jacket, a coroner’s court in Singapore was told on Wednesday.