The incident took place at Panjgaon at Chowkibal when terorists, suspected to be of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad stormed the battalion camp which is in-charge of road opening duties on the crucial roads in this area.
Senior party leader P Chidambaram, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut expressed support to Priyanka, who has alleged that no notice or first information report (FIR) has been given to her even after her 38-hour detention and was not allowed to meet her legal counsel.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said he likes leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi who are proud of their roots and noted that Modi speaks frankly about his past as a tea-seller.
Veteran Gujjar leader Aslam Choudhary, a six-time legislator, is engaged in a do-or-die contest to secure back the Congress' lost electoral turf in the mountain-locked Surankote constituency, which goes to polls in first phase on Monday.
'Education in private and public schools should be in English and in one regional language; it will solve the entire reservation issue.'
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday promised loans to farmers and unemployed youth, creation of 15 lakh jobs and quota for Gujjar and other backward communities if voted to power in Rajasthan in next month's assembly election.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's decision to stay away from the Bharatiya Janata Party national executive in New Delhi took away glamour from the meet. Newsmen who were looking for an opportunity to quiz her in the wake of her confrontation with the Gujjar leader Col Bhainsla were disappointed.
Kala Gujjar was arrested from Regal area of Samba district on Saturday and several combat dresses were recovered from his shed. He is believed to have arranged combat dresses for the militants and provided them with guides. Eight persons, including two militants, were killed in the fierce gun battle between security forces and militants at Kaily Mandi area of Samba.
Even as Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje faces the worst crises in her political career, son Dushyant Singh is vacationing with his wife and children at an undisclosed location abroad
Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla will leave for Jaipur on Monday to hold the final round of talks with Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje Scindia, aimed at ending nearly a month-long agitation by community members, who are demanding Scheduled Tribe status.Bainsla, who is holding a meeting with community members in Pilupura, will meet Raje in Jaipur and press for ST status for the community. Bainsla and CM Vasundhara Raje have so far stayed away from the talks.
Sachin Pilot on how he expects to help the Congress regain lost ground.
'Our strategy will be to create such an atmosphere in the state where everybody gets an opportunity to move ahead without any discrimination and without any crutches (of reservation),' Raje said when asked about her future plans.
The aerial survey was conducted in Bharatpur, Dholpur, Alwar, Dausa, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur, Jaipur rural, Kota and Tonk.
The agitation continued to paralyse normal life across the state
Kaagaz completely relies on Pankaj Tripathi's unassuming talent and sarcastic might to pull it off, notes Sukanya Verma.
Internal security columns of the army, which were deployed in the curfew-bound areas, were seen staging flag marches, while dozens of persons were taken into preventive custody to maintain law and order.
A BJP source admitted that a census will inevitably reconfirm the numerical majority of the OBCs. 'That will overturn social equations and consign the upper castes to a twilight zone of marginalisation. The RSS won't accept it.' Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has won 23 seats while the Pakistan Peoples Party was second with eight seats and the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz secured just six seats, the state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
Even though it was stated that no action would be taken against the senior leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi, they say that the retaliation had already begun, reports Aditi Phadnis
Here are some of the political leaders' who await their fate.
The militants have killed 42 civilians, including 11 women, in the Rajouri-Poonch border sector in the last two months.
At least 11 people, including two army jawans, were killed while over 100 others were evacuated to safety as the unprecedented snowfall in March triggered avalanches and damaged over 150 structures including dozens of houses in Jammu and Kashmir.
Patel also said he would support the communities which have raised reservation demands in Rajasthan.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday asked the Centre to explain to farmers why it does not want to repeal the three farm laws, while promising it that they 'will not let the government bow its head' before the world.
Apart from the second pandemic upsurge in Haryana which devastated its cities and villages, in most districts panchayats stopped inviting BJP-JJP leaders to social gatherings, while a few announced a boycott.
It's going to be brother vs step brother contest in Rajasthan's Dausa, where a different 'NaMo' would take on the candidate from NaMo's party. P B Chandra reports.
Farmers were carrying black flags and shouting slogans against the BJP-led government as they attempted to march towards Kaimla village.
Zila Ghaziabad's seemingly unapologetic disregard for authenticity, amon gother things, makes it substandard fare.
The Jat community is itching to end its brief dalliance with the BJP, but it is also upset with the Congress, the party they have traditionally supported, for not giving them their due, reports Archis Mohan.
Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party has suffered setbacks in country's biggest ever by-polls for 41 national and provincial assembly constituencies, in which the ruling PML-N appeared to have consolidated its position.
Breaking her silence on the series of allegations levelled by her former ally, the BJP, Mehbooba said it was sad to see the saffron party disown its own initiative and label it a "soft approach".
The director talks about Sudigadu, the remake of Tamil film Tamizh Padam which is a spoof on Telugu cinema
For over three months, the three Delhi border points at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur have transformed into townships occupied by thousands of farmers from different parts of the country, mainly Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh.
'In one instance of the Pakistani army's violation of the Ceasefire, I ordered a far tougher response designed to deter the enemy.' 'I warned that 'unexpected damage' to their forces will be inflicted if they continued with such ceasefire violations.' A fascinating excerpt from Lieutenant General K Himalay Singh's Making of a General: A Himalayan Echo.
"Police excesses" have occurred in Bharatpur communal riots in Congress-ruled Rajasthan, a fact finding team of the party has said in a report submitted to Sonia Gandhi, sources said.
Blood splattered compounds, smashed window panes and demolished roofs are all that are left of houses in border hamlets which have been battered in Pakistani firing and shelling in the last three days.
You'll come out laughing till your sides hurt, promises Sukanya Verma.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed the ministries and government departments not to duplicate official estimates and sought strict compliance to ensure that data and statistics collected are consistent.
With one more person succumbing to injuries on Monday, the toll in last week's violence in Bharatpur has risen to 10, police said.
At least three persons were killed on Wednesday in a clash between two communities at Bharatpur in Rajasthan over a land dispute, District Collector Krishna Kunal said.
