The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday claimed to have found the culprits behind the bomb attack on Institutional Finance Minister (stamps and registration) Nand Gopal Nandi.The police claimed that the attack was planned by jailed Samajwadi Party leader Dilip Misra (block pramukh of Chaka). Nandi and seven others were seriously injured in a blast outside his Allahabad residence that claimed one life.
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday pointedly accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of hounding his party MLA Vijay Misra, prime accused in the life attempt on UP Registration and Stamps Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi in Allahabad three month ago.
The sources said friends of India prevailed over those of Pakistan in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
The main accused in the attack on Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Gupta alias Nandi in Allahabad nearly three months ago was arrested in suburban Santacruz in Mumbai on Tuesday. Anand Sandalia alias Rajesh Pilot, who carried a reward of Rs 2.5 lakh, was nabbed outside the domestic airport's arrival gate, said Mumbai Joint Police Commissioner(Crime) Himanshu Roy. Pilot was arrested by Maharashtra Police's Anti-Extortion Cell and the Special Task Force.
With the Centre issuing guidelines for their resumption under Unlock 4, the rapid transit networks started operations in a graded manner in Delhi-NCR, Lucknow, Kochi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, but were still closed in Mumbai, Nagpur, Kolkata and Jaipur.
India is going into the longest lockdown in the world, with the least amount of notice given to its people and the least preparation by its government.
Traffic was thrown out of gear in the city as BSP workers, raising slogans and carrying placards, thronged the area.
Two suspects were detained for interrogation in Patna on Wednesday in connection with a bomb blast that took place in a residential building in the Bihar capital on Monday night, police said.
Referring to attempts made by Azad to forge the relationship of 'bua' with her, Mayawati said she cannot have any respectable relationship with such people.
'Both sides were so embittered by what had happened last year that I didn't know what to expect.'
The state's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which made the arrest, was tracking him for the past 8-10 days.
According to survey Gonda in UP is India's most dirtiest city.
The Maharashtra Government on Monday said TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu will not be allowed to visit the Babhli barrage site in the state.
However, the minister took it on the chin and retweeted some of the tweets that were even abusive and communal in nature.
'If you accept that situation you don't require the judiciary, the criminal procedure law, the Indian Penal Code or even the Constitution because there is somebody who decides who gets to live and who gets to die.'
The Uttar Pradesh police have refused to divulge details about their investigation into the bomb attack on the state's Institutional Finance (stamps and registration) Minister Nand Gopal Nandi, in which one person was killed and many others injured.Sleuths of the Anti-Terrorism Squad and Special Task Force have failed to make any headway in the case.
UP Stamps and Registrations Minister Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' and seven other people were injured in a bomb blast outside his residence in Allahabad on Monday. One of the injured victims later succumbed to his injuries.The blast took place in the Mutthiiganj locality of Allahabad at 11.45 am after Nandi stepped out of his residence to visit a nearby temple.Three government employees and Indian Express journalist Vijay Pratap Singh were seriously injured in the blast.
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Bharatiya Janata Party leaders C P Thakur and R K Sinha filed their nominations on Monday for the coming Rajya Sabha election from Bihar.
The 10-day Ganesh festival began on Saturday under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, with devotees restricting celebrations to their homes and using online platforms to get 'darshan' of the Lord at temples, amid strict COVID-19 restrictions imposed by governments.
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'Ayodhya is a sacred pilgrim spot. Construction of a temple of Lord Ram is a matter of faith for crores of people. And Lord Ram himself is a symbol of faith for crores of people of the country'
The businessman was summoned at the ED's office and was asked questions about the purported links of the alleged main accused of the case Amit Bhardwaj with his businesses.
Paramilitary force personnel and state police force will be deployed and drone cameras will be used to ensure security on Friday.
If India, China and the United States are to prosper in a globalised economy, a joint, cooperative transformation of their higher education systems was imperative, believes B M Naik, former principal of the engineering school at the Guru Gobind Singh College in Nanded, Maharashtra."To bring about this transformation from one level to the high level and to the global level and quality standard education, what is most important is that these ideas must move fast," he said.
The leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu and 74 of his party colleagues refused to apply for bail forcing a Maharashtra court to extend their judicial custody. Preparations were being made to shift Naidu and others including 50 MLAs and 2 MPs to the Nasik Jail.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, she said: "The July 12 blast was carried out to target my minister, Nand Gopal Nandi, whose popularity had become an eye sore for the entire Opposition, whom he left far behind at the 2007 state assembly election."
Confusion over the death of a person in the bomb attack on Uttar Pradesh minister Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' in Allahabad cleared on Tuesday with police admitting that one person was killed in the incident even as Congress accused the administration of trying to hush up the death.
'All these farmers and tribals were told to bring their own wood and ration to cook food during the march.'
The court also directed the CBI to continue assessing threat perception to the life and security of the survivor and her family members every three months.
Seven members of the Rajya Sabha belonging to the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Lok Janshakti Party and an independent Member of Parliament were suspended on Tuesday for the remaining part of the budget session for their unruly behaviour in the House on Monday over the Women's Reservation Bill.The suspended members are Subhash Yadav (RJD), Sabir Ali (LJP), Veerpal Singh Yadav, Nand Kishore Yadav, Amir Alam Khan and Kamal Akhtar (SP) and Ejaz Ali.
Irked by the developments in the Rajya Sabha over the women's bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh telephoned Vice President Hamid Ansari and expressed regret over attempts by some Samajwadi Party members to attack him in the House.
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UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav fired barbs at each other at an event to celebrate the SP's silver jubilee, barely two days after putting up a united show.
As far as calling names goes, campaigning for the October 13 Maharashtra Assembly elections seems to have reached a new low, with key players in state political arena calling rivals names, including those of animals.
When the temple issue predominated BJP's discourse, its victory margins have been narrow.
Chief Minister Adityanath has total assets worth over Rs 71 lakh, while Deputy CM Keshav Prasad has total assets of over Rs 9 crore.
After former Shiv Sena MP Pradeep Jaiswal, ex-MLA of BJP from Latur, Shivaji Patil Kavekar, has resigned from the party with his supporters. Similar revolts had been reported from Nanded, Beed and Hingoli districts also.
After the affected students staged a dharna and submitted a memorandum in this regard, authorities said the issue has been resolved and food is being supplied from last night.
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