Three private detectives, arrested for allegedly attempting to retrieve call detail records of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, were on Tuesday remanded in three days police custody by a Delhi court.
Banker Meera Sanyal and activist Mayank Gandhi figured in the Aam Aadmi Party's first list of probable candidates released late on Thursday night for forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra while no senior leader's name featured from Delhi and Haryana.
Those covered under the raids also included gangsters involved in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.
The southwest monsoon over the country is likely to be normal in July, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday in its forecast for the month.
There were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property.
Intense heat swept through east India and parts of the southern peninsular region on Thursday, testing power grids and prompting the Kerala government to order closure of educational institutions till May 6.
The slow progress of the south-west monsoon has led to overall deficiency of rains by 22 per cent over the last fortnight, the meteorological department on Wednesday said.
In the second attack on him in the last four days, Arvind Kejriwal was on Tuesday slapped by an unidentified man during a road show in Sultanpuri area of North West Delhi and the Aam Aadmi Party leader immediately blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for it.
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Although no fresh arrests were reported in the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation continued with its questioning of top officials of the RG Kar Hospital.
The 12 zones are Civil Lines, Rohini, Najafgarh, Narela, Keshavpuram, West Zone, Sadar, Karol Bagh, Shahdara North, Central, South and Shahdara South, an official statement issued on Saturday said.
Three rear compartments of the Kanchanjunga Express derailed under the impact of the collision by the locomotive of the goods train from behind, the police officer said.
Delhi Police on Monday announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to the arrest of two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar and nine others in connection with the murder of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Rana earlier this month.
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This would give BJP the chance to explore Constitutional options for government formation if there is no clear-cut mandate, explains Sheela Bhatt.
The southwest monsoon might finally start withdrawing from parts of North-West India over the next three days, signaling the end of its four-month journey over the country that started in June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. However, though the retreat might begin from next week, the rains might not descend quickly, as the met department predicted fresh spells of rains in Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and east MP on September 21-22 and over Odisha, Coastal areas north Andhra Pradesh and Gangetic West Bengal on September 19-21. "Due to anti-cyclonic flows over northwest India at lower tropospheric levels, dry weather is very likely over west Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi during the next five days. "Hence conditions are becoming favourable for the withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon from parts of northwest India during next three days," the IMD said.
The home ministry also asked the state government to send details of the action taken following the attacks on the central probe agency teams, the sources said.
Two suspected terrorists of the Babbar Khalsa International have been arrested by the Delhi police. The police claimed that some politicians and religious leaders were on the duo's target list. The arrested have been identified as Sarvpreet and Jaswinder. A team of Delhi police's Special Cell apprehended the duo, said a senior police official.One of them was arrested from Punjab while the second person was apprehended from north-west Delhi's Shalimar Bagh
A 23-year-old former woman employee of now defunct MDLR airline allegedly committed suicide at her residence in New Delhi and police on Sunday registered a case against a Haryana minister, who was the owner of the airline, on charges of abetting the crime.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it named 34 Union ministers in the first list of 195 candidates.
"Special circumstances" exist in Punjab, Wasnik said and added that in view of these, the AAP and the Congress have decided to fight the Lok Sabha polls separately in the state.
Out of the 150 candidates analysed in Delhi, where Lok Sabha elections will be held on April 10, 23 candidates (15 per cent) have declared cases against themselves.
On the run for the past ten days, controversial former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda surrendered before the police early Saturday morning in connection with the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma, the night after Delhi high court rejected his anticipatory bail plea.
Haryana minister Gopal Kanda resigned on Sunday night after he was booked for abetment to suicide by the Delhi police after a former woman employee of his now defunct airline MDLR allegedly took her life accusing him of harassing her.
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The applicant should have played either 7 Tests or 30 first-class matches. A candidate with experience of 10 ODIs or 20 first-class matches will also be considered.
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The BJP, which contested more seats this time than in 2019 but is likely to fall short of the magic figure of 272, garnered 36.91 per cent of the total votes polled, a drop of around 0.39 percentage points as of 6.15 pm.
"We will complain. He can meditate, but televisions cannot show it," she said, alleging that this will amount to "violation of the MCC."
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Rahul Gandhi's experiment of choosing Congress candidates for Lok Sabha polls through the 'primary' system appears to have suffered initial hiccups with two constituencies being dropped from the list of 16.
Sushil is absconding after 23-year-old Sagar Rana, was beaten to death during a brawl at Chhatrasal Stadium
A delegation of Congress leaders met EC officials and raised several issues, including the use of pictures and large cut-outs of the prime minister in government buildings and colleges and demanded that those be removed to maintain a level-playing field in the upcoming parliamentary election.
Delhi Bar associations' members said litigants are not allowed in due to security reasons.
It has also been decided to suspend the interstate bus services till March 31, the officials said. The decisions have been taken at a high-level meeting attended by chief secretaries of all states and the cabinet secretary and the principal secretary to the prime minister.
In a new twist in the sensational Geetika Sharma case, her mother also committed suicide Friday with the family blaming former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda, six months after the former airhostess ended her life alleging harassment by the MLA.
The map above visualises the percentage of households that have access to drinking water within the premises as found in the National Sample Survey's 69th round (2012).
From Mumbai to Silvassa in Daman, and back.
The riverine Sandeshkhali area in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district -- situated on the borders of the Sunderbans, about 100 kilometres from Kolkata -- has been on the boil for more than a month with protests against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan, who is absconding, and his supporters.
A minimum of 3 Celsius was recorded on Wednesday morning compared to Tuesday's 2.6 C, MeT Office said.
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