Doctor arrested in connection with Ayodhya attack
Masood, who has been recently booked for hate speech, has five pending cases in various courts on charges of forgery and intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace among others.
The BSP chief who raised the issue of anti-Dalit violence in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh walked out of the Upper House, prompting protests and an adjournment.
Sporadic incidents of arson were on Monday reported as life in violence-torn Haryana limped back to normal with curfew being lifted gradually and Jat protesters starting to lift blockades after the Bharatiya Janata Party announced setting up of a committee to examine the quota demand of the community.
The two men arrested are Shahnawaz Ahmad Teli from Kulgam and Aquib Ahmad Malik from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
A schoolboy, who was abducted 10 days ago in Amritsar in Punjab, has been released in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur town, a Punjab Police release said on Friday.
Priyanka Gandhi's charge were the key seats of Lucknow, Amethi, Raebareli, Sultanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Barabanki, and Kushinagar.
Four people threw 22-year-old Kamlesh Kumar out of the Punjab Mail near Saharanpur after a dispute over seating arrangements.
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No information is yet available on casualties.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's historic Lok Sabha election success in Uttar Pradesh has influenced its two main rivals in the state, the Samajwadi Party and Congress, to field fewer Muslim candidates for the 11 assembly seats that go to the by-polls on Saturday.
Around 400 to 500 people gathered near the city Eidgah to protest against the amended Citizenship Act amid a bandh call, he said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday came under attack in Lok Sabha from the Opposition which accused the ruling party of fuelling communalism, resulting in uproar in the House during a debate on communal violence.
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The announcement put an end to speculation that Sonia Gandhi may not contest in the upcoming polls due to health reasons and the party's newly appointed general secretary in-charge (East UP) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra may be fielded from her constituency.
Saharanpur Deputy Inspector General of Police S K Mathur was on Thursday transferred over his controversial remarks advocating honour killing that sparked an outrage.
Even as Central Bureau of Investigation investigators were busy unfolding the much talked about National Rural Health Mission scam in Uttar Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday pointedly blamed the Mayawati government for large scale swindling of the Rs 9000 crore given to the state for augmentation of health services for the poor and the downtrodden across the state's vast rural expanse under the program.
Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood was on Monday made special invitee to the Congress Working Committee with immediate effect. The announcement was made by party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi.
A close aide of Asaram who was evading arrest in connection with the murder of a prime witness in a rape case against the self-styled godman has been arrested.
Hasmukh just doesn't make you laugh and that's its biggest tragedy, complains Moumita Bhattacharjee.
The steady turnout right from morning took Tuesday's Uttar Pradesh phase six poll to an impressive 60 per cent.
He claimed that Deoband's ancient name was Devvrad and evidences to support it were being collected.
Aazad reached Shaheen Bagh a day after his bail conditions were relaxed. Addressing a massive gathering, the Dalit leader said the CAA is a 'black law' that is dividing people on religious lines.
In a seeming bid to preempt any move by yoga guru Baba Ram Dev to stage a demonstration in Uttar Pradesh, the UP administration clamped Section 144 of CrPC in all districts falling under the national capital region late Monday evening. Under this section, assembly of four or more persons at any public place is banned.
The overall voting percentage in the bypolls to 51 assembly seats was nearly 56.84 per cent, the Election Commission said while releasing data available till 7 pm, adding that the polling passed off peacefully.
The companies said there was no clarity on types of warnings to be carried on the packages. ITC, the maker of India Kings, Gold Flake and Navy Cut, stopped production at all the five units located across India from yesterday. It has manufacturing facilities in Bangalore, Munger, Saharanpur and Kolkata.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a sub divisional engineer of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd of Roorkee, Ashok Chaudhary, and four private persons of Faridabad (Haryana) and Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), including an NRI kingpin based in Saudi Arabia, Sayeed Zaidi, for running a racket to cheat BSNL to the tune of several crores of rupees by illegally activating unmentioned ISD facility to local landline numbers.
Only traces of rainfall were recorded in a few areas of the national capital on Thursday which continued to experience sultry weather.
The government is organising the event-- Zara Muskura Do (Smile Please)-- which will have several performances and programmes highlighting its "achievements".
'India has been cleaved into two by a government that has shown amazing consistency in cleaving.' 'One India is gasping for life, and the other is doing yoga and clapping from balconies and WhatsApp groups,' observes Debashish Chatterjee.
'We are not Mahatma Gandhi's children that we keep giving and not get anything in return.'
Protesters had vandalised a police station and torched vehicles in Mau. Internet services have been suspended in the district.
Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com gives the lowdown on the constituencies going to polls in the first phase on April 11.
The Samajwadi Party released its list of 40 star campaigners in which there was no mention of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Addressing a meet organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi, GAIL chairman and managing director B C Tripathi said his company was laying new pipelines to connect cities like Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab and Haryana.
The encounters took place in Bulandshahr, Shamli, Kanpur, Saharanpur, Lucknow, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Gorkahpur, Hapur and Meerut.
The men sitting around me -- dressed, like the rest of the crowd, in white kurta-pyjama, and sporting unkempt beards and white skull-caps -- enthusiastically shook their heads in agreement. Like the maulvi-poet, they laboured under the burden of being forced to prove their patriotism, their anti-Pakistani credentials, and their opposition to terrorism -- an unenviable predicament they were compelled to share with the rest of their co-religionists
'The undiminished threat, therefore, has the potency of sustaining itself in multiple ways in the near and medium term.' 'The state agencies need to utilize innovative methods in countering radicalization and violent extremism to address this growing threat'.
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