Today's Top Headlines 17-04-2015

Top Headlines 17-04-2015

In a major relief to St. Stephen’s suspended student Devansh Mehta, the Delhi High Court on Friday stayed his suspension, issued a notice to the college principal and barred the college from awarding the prize that was withdrawn from the student to anyone else until the next date of hearing on May 21.The student had founded an e-zine which was banned after it carried an interview of the principal. His suspension followed soon after he spoke about it to the media.The student in his petition claimed that he was being repeatedly victimised by the college principal Valson Thampu.

Julian Assange has agreed to be questioned at Ecuador’s London embassy over allegations of sexual assault, his Swedish lawyer said on Thursday.The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up inside the embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations he assaulted two women in 2010. He denies the allegations.Swedish prosecutors said in March 2015 they wanted to question Mr. Assange in London, backing down from a previous demand it happen in Sweden. Mr. Assange’s lawyers had welcomed the request but had up until now not formally agreed to the arrangement.“Now we await further word (from prosecutors),” Thomas Olsson, Mr. Assange’s lawyer, told Reuters, adding that he expected prosecutors to get in touch to sort out the details.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first colour image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon.“The image reveals tantalising glimpses of this system,” Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said in a statement.Charon is seen dimmer than Pluto in the image taken from a distance of 115 million km.“The contrast may be due to a difference in composition of the two bodies or it could even be caused by a previously unseen atmosphere on Charon,” Green added.The uncertainty should clear up this summer when New Horizons gets history’s first good look at the two frigid, faraway objects.