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Los Angeles, July 25 : A contest for Taylor Swift's fan was arranged by Boston's Kiss FM, but it got cancelled Thursday after it was revealed that a 39-year-old man won the grand title.

The radio station updated its contest page with a statement clarifying the reasoning for their decision, reports eonline. com.

"Disappointingly, we have determined that the integrity of the 'Taylor Swift's Biggest Fan' contest has been compromised. In accordance with our contest rules, effective immediately, the contest has been terminated. We apologise to all of our loyal listeners who have participated," read the statement.

Jaipur, July 25 : The weekly iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation programme of the government will cover 13 crore adolescent boys and girls across the country, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Thursday.

Under the programme, along with IFA tablets, adolescents and their families will be given information and counselling on nutrition and health education, Azad said inaugurating the programme in Rajasthan at a function organised at Birla Auditorium here. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot was also present.

New Delhi, July 25 : The 2014 general elections would take place as scheduled and there was no question of holding them earlier, Congress leader and union minister Manish Tewari said Thursday.

"There are still nine months to the elections.. it will be held as scheduled," Tewari, the union information and broadcasting minister, said here.

On a possible tie-up with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), which has broken up with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, Tewari smiled and said: "Let us see" but refused to elaborate.

Barcelona, July 25 : Russia's Svetlana Romashina won the gold medal in the solo free routine of synchronized swimming at the World Swimming and Diving Championships here.

The 24-year-old Romashina scored a total of 97.340 points in a Marilyn Monroe-inspired routine which allowed her to win her third gold medal in Barcelona after her success in the solo and duet technical routine here Wednesday, reports Xinhua.

New Delhi, July 25 : Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday expressed joy that police were "able to prove their case" in the 2008 Batla House shootout in Delhi, but also defended Congress leaders who questioned the incident's veracity, saying "they meant well".

"I am glad that the police have been able to prove their case. Earlier, the NHRC (National Human rights Commission) and the high court also held that there was no reason to doubt the genuineness of the encounter," Chidambaram, a former home minister, told Times Now.

New Delhi, July 25 : India Thursday agreed to reschedule its existing Lines of Credit (LoC) to Sudan totalling $566.9 million.

According to an external affairs ministry statement here, the agreement for India's biggest rescheduling of LoC till date was signed in the presence of Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur and Sudan's Minister of Finance and National Economy Ali Mahmoud Mohamed, who is currently on an official visit to India.