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France said on Monday that Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido had "the legitimacy to organise presidential elections" after President Nicolas Maduro rejected a European ultimatum to call a snap vote on his rule. Seven EU states had given Maduro a Sunday deadline to call presidential elections failing which they would recognise 35-year-old Guaido, who heads Venezuela's National Assembly, as the country's interim president.

Suresh Kumar | TNN | Feb 4, 2019, 13:24 ISTAfter capturing the elephant, officials had fitted it with a radio collar to monitor its movement. CHENNAI: Will Chinnathambi, the crop-raiding tusker, be captured and tamed as a 'kumki' or will it be rehabilitated in any of the reserved forests in Tamil Nadu? The fate of the 25-year-old elephant, which has already made a considerable fan following, will be decided by the Madras high court on Monday.

PATNA/HAJIPUR: At least six passengers died and 37 were injured when 11 coaches of the Delhi-bound Jogbani-Anand Vihar Seemanchal Express derailed at Sahadai Buzurg railway station near Hajipur, in Bihar’s Vaishali district, at 3.58 am on Sunday. The accident site, around 50km from Patna, is a single-line section on the Barauni-Bachhwara-Hajipur route under Sonepur division of East Central Railway (ECR). ECR officials said the coaches appeared to have derailed due to fractured rails.