MoS Home Hansraj Ahir said that the Law Commission in its 262nd report has recommended that the death penalty be abolished for all crimes other than terrorism related offences and waging war.
It was not very easy to leave the family which I built for 20 years but then I got a very warm welcome from the Thackeray family.
Test cricketer Ravindra Jadeja's wife Reeva was allegedly assaulted, on Monday, by a police constable following a minor accident involving her car in Gujarat's Jamnagar city, police said.
One of India's greatest music legends, Pandit Jasraj leaves behind a storied legacy spanning almost eight decades.
NCP MLAs Shivendrasinhraje Bhosale (Satara), Vaibhav Pichad (Akole) and Sandeep Naik (Airoli) and Congress MLA Kalidas Kolambkar (Naigaon) handed over their resignation letters separately to Speaker Haribhau Bagade at the state legislature building Vidhan Bhawan in south Mumbai.
Ahir said there were 110 terror attacks in J&K in 3 months before surgical strikes while there were 87 such attacks in 3 months after the strikes.
Fadnavis, the first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister of the state, filed his papers from the Nagpur South-West constituency.
Bollywood's gorgeous ladies looked glamorous on the IIFA green carpet, but the men didn't disappoint either.
Pawar, who founded the NCP in 1999 after walking out of the Congress, said he worked in opposition for 27 years.
The April 11 polling will decide the fate of several political bigwigs.
The minister said India would make efforts to get the territory back from Pakistan.
Awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri, Pandit Jasraj also popularised semi-classical music like 'haveli sangeet' and reached out to devotees with his 'bhajans', a particular favourite for his fans being "Om Namo Bhagavate" in praise of Lord Krishna.
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.
It will never be possible to recreate an exact account of this epic battle to remember and honour other brave jawans, but one thing that the nation will always do is to bow down their heads in respect and reverence at the war memorial at Chushul called 'The Rezang La War Memorial -- Ahir Dham'.
Govt unlikely to allow Indo-Pak cricket in Dubai
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday came out with a book on the coal scam titled 'The Great Coal Robbery'.
"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.
Here is some interesting information released by the government in response to questions posed by MPs in Parliament on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hansraj Ahir, who has been at the forefront in exposing the scandalous free allotment of coal blocks by the United Progressive Alliance, explains the modus operandi of the coal scam in the second and final part of his interview with rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
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.
Fourteen years after the Ramabai Nagar firing incident in Mumbai, the sessions court on Thursday acquitted eight persons charged with attempt to murder.
Singh said India has a policy of maintaining cordial relations with neighbours.
A senior police official who was allegedly shot at by his deputy inside a police station in suburban Mumbai, has died.
Government has sent a clear signal that builders and developers cannot dictate policies.
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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.
Smriti Irani will reprise her electoral battle with Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.
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.
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.
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.
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
An injured jawan said around 10-12 Naxalites must have got killed in the 'befitting' retaliation by the CRPF contingent.
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.
Anita Dongre brings back the magic of traditional Indian weaves and embroidery in a modern new avatar. Check out her collection for Lakm Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2015.
