With several state administrations flattening the houses of those involved in criminal cases with bulldozers, the Supreme Court on Monday questioned how can anybody's house be demolished just because he is an accused.
The state police on Friday arrested one of the two activists of the hardline Hurriyat Conference who were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to engineer violence in Kashmir valley by planning the killing of 10 to 15 people during a procession. The police swooped down at a place on Narbal-Magam Road and arrested Shabir Ahmed Wani, district president of the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
The locals believe the homes began to develop cracks after some portions of the land began to sink.
After going through an anxious period following the hanging of Afzal Guru, accused in the parliament attack case, the tourism industry in Kashmir is looking to reinvent itself.
Britain has banned Pakistan's Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour from entering the country, weeks after he had announced a 100,000-dollar bounty for the anti-Islam filmmaker
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who is currently in police custody in connection with the Umesh Pal murder case, has sought permission from a magistrate to attend the funeral of his son Asad who was killed in a police encounter.
The terrorists, who were carrying arms and ammunition, were intercepted by the Mumbai police's anti-terrorist squad, which arrested them
The Pakistan government on Monday made it clear that one of its minister's offer of a bounty of $100,000 for the maker of an anti-Islam film did not represent official policy but did not say whether any action would be taken against him.
Besides Azad, two PDP and one BJP candidate won.
Patel, 71, who was critical for a few days, was admitted to the Medanta hospital in Gurugram on November 15 after he developed complications. His son Faisal said he died at 3.30 am.
A Pakistani minister at the centre of a controversy -- for offering a reward to anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film -- has said he will put a bounty on the head of any person who commits blasphemy in the future. Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said he stood by his offer of a bounty of $100,000 for the killing of the maker of Innocence Of Muslims.
A federal minister in Pakistan on Saturday announced a bounty of $100,000 on the head of the maker of an anti-Islam film that has sparked violent protests, shocking many people with his announcement.
'The wave of terrorism is over in Kashmir. Local people do not support it.'
The last word may not have been said on the churnings within the Pakistan army or the extent to which army chief General Asim Munir is in control, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RAW, India's external intelligence agency.
Managing the senior generals has proven to be quite a headache for General Asim Munir, even as he and his team of loyal henchmen labour hard to dispel the sense of unhappiness among the public about the army's overbearing presence and interference in matters 'civilian', notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
A few distant relatives of Atiq and some people of the locality were allowed to go to the graveyard.
The Opposition party also attacked Azad, saying "Mr. GNA himself gives new evidence of his DNA mutation by saying 'those opposing Article 370 abrogation ignorant of the situation on the ground'."
Minister of State for Tourism Gulam Ahmed Mir said 15 chief ministers are ecpected to attend the meet.
Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 murder of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal, was shot dead outisde his residence in Prayagraj, the police said.
The aircraft crashed as it was coming in to land at the Srinagar airport after an operational sortie. The pilot, Flying Officer B K Singh, bailed out and was in hospital with a broken arm.
Recent disclosures allege large scale corruption, nepotism and kickbacks by Pakistan air chief Air Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhuin housing land deals in Islamabad and in buying of new aircraft, points out Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
'I want Atiq Ahmed's empire to end, I don't want him to be alive'
Hasan Ali, who last played a Test against Sri Lanka in Galle in July, has picked up 77 wickets in 21 Tests.
Umesh Pal's family thanked Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the police.
Ten people were named in the first information report (FIR) registered at the Dhoomanganj Police Station of Prayagraj on February 25, a day after Umesh Pal was killed.
Tariq Ahmed Dar, guilty of being a member of a terror outfit and giving support to it, but let him off too, saying he has already undergone more than 10 years in jail, which is the maximum punishment prescribed under the law for these offences.
The man who fired the first shot at Umesh Pal, a key witness in the killing of former Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal, was gunned down in an encounter with Prayagraj police early Monday, officials said.
He secured required 44 votes after votes of two Congress MLAs who cross-voted for BJP were rejected by EC.
'Was the entire place properly sanitised by the police before he was brought out of the prison for this medical check-up?' 'Once he filed a plea in the Supreme Court stating there was a threat to his life, the UP police should have maintained stricter vigilance.'
Congress on Monday appointed five new PCC chiefs.
It has also sought a status report from the state government on 183 "police encounters" that have taken place since 2017.
"Nobody is sympathising with Atiq Ahmad because a criminal should be punished. But anyone who will see this video will question if we are a democracy. Every criminal has the right to be heard in court and be convicted there. But you can see they were killed in police custody in the open," he said.
The Uttar Pradesh police had on March 26 also taken Ahmad from the Sabarmati jail in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city to Prayagraj in UP to produce him in a court.
Imam said it was his right to use the red beacon.
"No, she will not make me the PM," was Dr Pranab Mukherjee's cryptic response in a reference to Sonia Gandhi when he was asked by his daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee about his chances of becoming the prime minister in 2004.
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