Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the Election Commission to take serious note of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda clearing the land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF, alleging that it was done hastily as the Congress faced "certain defeat" in the October 15 Haryana assembly polls.
Two pilgrims died of cardiac arrest en route to the 3,880 m high holy cave shrine of Amarnath even as one lakh pilgrims paid obeisance at the shrine, officials said in Srinagar on Friday.
The 'Chennai Trekking Club' has blamed the local farmers for the fire that engulfed the area.
Of the 27 named, at least four are workers and functionaries of right-wing organisations, including the Bajrang Dal, officials said.
'My biggest fear is if I get infected will I get admission in a good hospital and how much money will the hospital charge for my treatment.'
Senior police officials held a meeting with prominent religious personalities and leaders of the town and urged them not to offer prayers tonight at Bada Kabrastan.
Though the government claims there are more beds than needed, the national capital's COVID-19 reality, retold through social and other media, is also about the anguish of sons, daughters, wives and others trying desperately to get medical help for their unwell family members.
The Almoayed Group is helping in the education of slain engineer Suryanarayana's children
Right-wing groups were blamed for the violence.
Parrikar announced that all those seven security personnel killed during the attack will be treated as martyrs that will entitle them to all the benefits available to 'battle casualty' as in war-like situations.
India's women recurve team kept itself in medal contention by moving to the semifinals of the Asian Games even as the men's recurve team suffered a close 3-5 defeat against Hong Kong to crash out in the elimination round of the archery competition.
The Assam government announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh and a job for the next of the kin of the deceased.
Grieving families of the 239 people on board flight MH370 on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the world's biggest aviation mystery with Malaysian Prime Minister vowing not to give up on the search for the wreckage of the aircraft that vanished midair over the Indian Ocean.
There was no loss of civil property in the accidents, which occurred from January 2005 up to January 31, 2006, except the accident which took place on December 13, 2005 in which paddy crop was damaged in the open field, he said.
Vajpayee had always felt that India must act with conviction and panache. He decided that, irrespective of the attendant risks, he would undertake what many felt was a precarious course. A fascinating excerpt from N K Singh's Portraits Of Power: Half A Century Of Being At Ringside on Atalji's 96th birthday, December 25.
Two days after an explosion claimed 89 lives in MP's Jhabua district, police on Monday recovered 69 detonators and a large number of gelignite sticks from the residence of the main accused.
No ONGC employee was on the drillship when the accident occurred.
Resto-bar owner V R Dayashankar who went absconding after the incident was later arrested.
"The families of the deceased have come to me and are weeping inconsolably for justice. We are going to move the MP high court for a CBI probe into the entire incident," lawyer Parvez Alam said.
They detailed how by following the rituals, one would not actually die "but would be saved by God and attain something great".
Ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha legislator Sita Soren, the daughter-in-law of former Chief Minister Shibu Soren, on Tuesday surrendered to a court in Ranchi in a case of horse trading registered by CBI after the Election Commission rescinded the original notification for the 2012 Rajya Sabha polls for Jharkhand.
The FIR filed by the CBI had booked Sengar and nine other associates for alleged criminal conspiracy, murder, attempt to murder and criminal intimidation.
People visited their kith and kin, exchanged festive greetings and sweets while social media, including the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter, was flooded with Diwali messages as many took the virtual route to convey their wishes.
The police, however, said that Maru was killed when he inhaled excessive oxygen that oozed out of the cylinder.
This is suspected to be a Naxal ambush for security forces. Maoists fired multiple rounds while attacking the vehicle-mounted team, the official said.
Over one lakh people have migrated from their hamlets and border towns in the wake of firing by Pakistan.
The death toll from Nepal's earthquake has risen to over 3,700, two days after the devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale struck the Himalayan nation.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Protests against the recent killing of two youths in a firing incident continued to rock Nowgam locality in Srinagar.
The 18-member group interacted with inmates of migrant camps, many of whom narrated tales of how they lost their kin and homes and hearth to militancy.
"I am there to support the cause of ex-servicemen because I am an ex-servicemen's daughter," Singh's daughter Mrinalini was quoted as saying.
The families said their hopes of getting any clue about the men who went missing in Iraq's Mosul city were almost shattered after listening to the statement of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Parliament on Wednesday.
"Mohit Yadav is my name...," said the 24-year-old, before slapping sub-inspector Jitendra Kumar.
Indrani dressed in a short purple kurta and leggings, with a bandhini green-purple chunni, sindhoor glowing in her mang, was receiving a drubbing from her lawyers for the facts she had revealed before the court on Tuesday while arguing the rejoinder to her bail application. She was insisting: "But he asked me for a motive!"
The mishap took place at Martur village station, about 20 kilometres from Kalburgi.
Schoolchildren and priests also gathered at the ICU ward of the Gandhinagar civil hospital to offer prayers for quick recovery of Surjan Singh Bhandari.
Jeyanandh Dhivakaran, son of Sasikala's brother, V Dhivaharan, is making headlines in Tamil Nadu politics, reports Gireesh Babu.
Lakhs of commuters faced hardships in commuting due to the strike.
Indian women are being fooled by job offers in Kuwait, but there's little they can do except turn to the Indian embassy for help. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
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