As the nation marks the 14th anniversary of the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other prominent leaders paid their tribute to the martyrs.
Two children were killed when a hand grenade exploded in Gawari village in the hilly Doda district at Jammu on Friday. The children had found the grenade by the riverside and were playing with it when the grenade exploded, said the police. The victims have been identified as Kamran (6) and Mohammad Afzal (12). The police suspect that the grenade may have been the leftover ammunition of the recent encounter between militants and security forces in the village.
The Sena also said the BJP leaders are creating sounds of empty vessels over the issue of who will become the Mumbai mayor.
Kanhaiya, accompanied by a delegation of JNU students and members of All India Students Federation, met the Congress vice president at his residence in Tughlaq lane area.
Vouching for academic credentials of the students named in the probe report of the controversial Afzal Guru event on February 9, a group of Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty members has noted that the sequence of events "does not constitute a major act of indiscipline".
Police cited statements of various witnesses in its chargesheet to state that Kumar was walking along with the protesters where a number of unidentified persons were raising slogans during an event in the university's campus on February 9, 2016, to commemorate the hanging of Parliament-attack mastermind Afzal Guru.
Qazi had submitted his resignation on Tuesday after he was stripped of forest portfolio on Sunday.
A 30-metre-long tunnel from Pakistan to the Indian side was today detected by the Border Security Force on the international border in the RS Pura sector of Jammu district.
'This is a political case and police is being used here right from the day one.'
Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal and Sitaram Yechury are among nine persons who have been booked on sedition charges in connection with the JNU row, police said on Sunday.
The terror attack on Parliament 12 years ago, on this very day, had evoked nation-wide outrage and botched India's fragile ties with Pakistan further.
Members of the ABVP alleged that five students, wanted by the police in a sedition case, were hiding in JNU professors' residences.
The BJP chief also said there is no need to say 'Bharat Maata Ki Jai' under pressure from the RSS or the BJP.
Modi pointed out that it has been one year since the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence on Afzal Guru, for his involvement in the attack on Parliament, but the Congress has been protecting him. The chief minister was speaking at a well-attended election rally at Sola Road in Ahmedabad as part of his campaigning for the second phase of polling on December 16
Unfazed by the recent controversies, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi described the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre as the "real merchant of death".
He has said nothing anti-national or against constitution. Hope, wish and pray that he's released soon, sooner the better," Sinha tweeted.
At the Press Club event on February 10, a group allegedly shouted slogans hailing Guru, following which the police had registered a case under sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC against Geelani and other unnamed persons.
Speaking to UNI, Airport Director R K Singla said the security at airports were further strengthened. The passengers were being frisked and luggage thoroughly checked, he added.
But he maintained that the cases against his son for attacking officials was as conspiracy against him.
Twelve suspects, arrested from across the country for their alleged links with terror group ISIS, were remanded in the NIA's custody till February 5 by a special court in New Delhi.
A collective fine on the village will be imposed to discourage people from taking the law into their own hands while dealing with criminal offenders.
Teachers bodies of 40 central universities and Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India had also come out in support of the agitating students saying it is an issue of "indiscipline" and not "sedition".
'If JNU students are anti-national, why do we send in the police? Why not send in intellectuals like M V Kamath to have a debate and discussion?'
Major Somnath Sharma was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his bravery in the Kashmir operations on November 3, 1947.
The company has entered into a joint venture technical assistance agreement with Afzal Motors of Pakistan.
Tata Motors enters Pakistan through Korean subsidiary Tata Motors, India's largest automobile firm, announced on Friday its entry in Pakistan through its subsidiary Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co.
In June this year, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had ordered a test to be conducted by Forest Research Institute experts to determine whether the branch of the bodhi tree was cut last year or not. The order was given after a criminal case was filed by a monk Arup Brahmachari against the top officials of the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee, including Gaya District Magistrate, in the court of the chief judicial magistrate.
The police identified the Hizbul commander as Suhail Afzal, the divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujajhideen, who topped the list of most wanted militants
The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to take up the issues like clemency to the mastermind of the attack on the Parliament, Mohammed Afzal Guru.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
No militant outfit has so far claimed responsibility for the abduction, the sources said.
Police said two army soldiers of 42 Rashtriya Rifles who were injured in the militant attack were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
Delhi University lecturer S A R Geelani was aquitted by the Supreme Court in the Parliament attack case.
Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.
The Mahabodhi tree in Gaya under which the Buddha attained enlightment has not been vandalised, Bihar Home Secretary Afzal Amanullah and Rajendra Agriculture University scientist A Singh said on Friday.
The move comes on December 13, the fifth anniversary of the attack.
The Left has never been comfortable with Kalam and had even put up the late Captain Lakshmi Sehgal when the NDA sought to make him a consensus candidate in 2002 and the Congress had no option left but to support him.
