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Food delivery platform Zomato on Saturday said it has retrenched a total of 541 people -- 10 per cent of the company's strength -- across customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams, owing to Artificial Intelligence-driven bots and automation.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Saturday rubbished allegations of atrocities by Indian Army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the Army was in the region only to fight terrorists. Doval says majority of Kashmiri support Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s move to abrogate Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan on Saturday denied permission for the use of its airspace by President Ram Nath Kovind's plane. President Kovind is scheduled to embark on a three-nation tour of Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia from Monday.

Chandrayaan-2 accomplished 90-95% of the mission objectives and will contribute to lunar science, notwithstanding the loss of communication with the lander, ISRO said hours after it lost contact with Vikram, the lander. The Lander followed the planned descent trajectory from its orbit of 35 km to just below 2 km above the surface. All the systems and sensors of the Lander functioned excellently until this point, when contact was lost with it.

In a bid to falsely portray that businesses have collapsed in J&K in the aftermath of Article 370 being revoked, terrorists have been issuing threats to apple growers and traders to not send or sell their produce outside of the state. Friday night's attack is believed to be a fallout of people largely choosing to ignore such threats from them.

Mehbooba Mufti daughter Iltija has obtained Supreme Court's permission to meet her mother in private, but will not be allowed to go anywhere else in Srinagar without permission. Mehbooba has been under preventive detention following the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.