The government on Tuesday announced that only four terrorists had entered the Pathankot Air Force station to carry out the strike that left eight people dead. This is contrary to a statement made by Home Minister Rajnath Singh on March 4 when he had said that charred remains, apart from four bodies of terrorists, were found at the debris after security forces searched the Pathankot airforce station when the operation ended.
As many as 54 supporters IS have been arrested in the country, Lok Sabha was informed.
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"There is no need for us to investigate that Pakistan is a terror state. We already know it is. I request the government that status quo should not continue and it should explore options," Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday came out with a book on the coal scam titled 'The Great Coal Robbery'.
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On February 20, the Chief Secretary had alleged that he was beaten up by two Aam Aadmi Party MLAs Amanatullah Khan and Prakash Jarwal at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's house, where he had been called for an emergency meeting.
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Singh said India has a policy of maintaining cordial relations with neighbours.
Fourteen years after the Ramabai Nagar firing incident in Mumbai, the sessions court on Thursday acquitted eight persons charged with attempt to murder.
A senior police official who was allegedly shot at by his deputy inside a police station in suburban Mumbai, has died.
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The prime accused in the kidnapping and murder of four friends in suburban Malad, Uday Phatak, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. This takes the total number of arrests in the case to nine, police said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is set to embark on a three-day visit to London with the prime minister to formally open a memorial to Dr BR Ambedkar there even as opposition parties targeted the government over not being invited for the event.
Between 2014 and March 3, 2018, 45 people were killed in 40 cases of mob lynching across nine states, and at least 217 persons had been arrested, data compiled by the home ministry show.
Suniel Shetty's father was 93.
The BSF also said multiple infiltration bids by Pakistan along the International Border have been foiled in recent past.
Families, torn apart by the Malvani hooch tragedy, where 104 people lost their lives confront a dark and hopeless future.
The heightened security measures for Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive during the terror siege on Mumbai in November last year, are causing inconvenience to people in the vicinity of Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. "People are being inconvenienced due to the security measures in place for Ajmal Kasab," Sachin Ahir of NCP said. Over 40,000 people living in the neighbourhood of the high security Arthur Road jail are facing problems due to the unprecedented security.
An injured jawan said around 10-12 Naxalites must have got killed in the 'befitting' retaliation by the CRPF contingent.
The latest setback for the 20-year-old party came at a time when its top leadership is in talks with the Congress to finalise seat-sharing for the 288-member assembly.
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha election, lost to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar by 2.84 votes.
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'After the NRC in Assam, things have changed for Muslims in India.'
Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli along with seven other gang members, including his brother Vijay Ahir, were booked under the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in connection with an extortion case on Tuesday
In a startling discovery, the police have found that two gangsters owing allegiance to gangster-turned-MLA Arun Gawli were members of the Union Food and Civil Supplies Ministry's Task Force on Food Processing, prompting them to start an enquiry into the matter.
General T N Raina was an iconic Indian military leader whose contributions to the nation should be more widely known, notes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut last week met NCP chief Sharad Pawar requesting him not field a candidate against Aaditya Thackeray in Worli.
In Gujarat, Amit Shah's tactic of spiriting away Congress leaders and MLAs is jocularly called 'shop-and-buy votes'. Although haemorrhaging the Congress is a vital aspect of his election blueprint, an aide said, "Amitbhai wants to win on our strengths and not by weakening the Congress."
"All of us can feel the pain of families of the Pulwama martyrs. We understand your anger," Modi said.
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'There were no airhostesses and stewards to bring us food, water and the news of when the journey would resume.'
As many as 306 people have lost their lives due to the spread of infectious diseases in Maharashtra in the wake of the heavy rains and floods, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
The three-day conference of the directors general of police of all states was inaugurated in Hyderabad on Friday by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
The polling started at 7 am and would continue till 5 pm.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
Out of these nine constituencies in the two districts, seven had been held by the ruling party while the Congress represented Amreli and Una seats.
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