Many believe Kishore Kumar serenaded the ladies better than any other iconic playback singer.
Though Sukhu has been putting up a brave face and there appears to be no immediate threat to his government, the BJP is looking to bring down his dispensation with bypoll wins amid a view that it may draw more legislators of the ruling party into its fold.
The political crisis arose in Himachal Pradesh during the recently held polling for the Rajya Sabha elections as nine MLAs, including six Congress rebels and three independents, voted in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Manoj Sonkar on Tuesday defeated Aam Aadmi Party's Kuldeep Kumar to win the post of mayor in the Chandigarh mayoral polls.
The disqualified MLAs are Rajinder Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Devinder Kumar Bhutoo, Ravi Thakur and Chetanya Sharma.
The Punjab police on Friday claimed to have busted an ISI-backed terror module jointly handled by Canada-based gangster Lakhbir Singh alias Landa and Pakistan-based gangster Harvinder Singh Rinda with the arrest of two of its operatives.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Himachal Pradesh assembly speaker's order disqualifying the six Congress rebels who had cross-voted in the recent Rajya Sabha polls in the state.
A soldier's family in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar was preparing for his marriage in December but fate had something else in store as the braveheart laid down his life fighting terrorists in Rajouri district.
Advocate for one of the victims of Ishrat Jahan encounter case has claimed a retired Gujarat police officer had heard his suspended senior D G Vanzara, main accused in the case, telling another officer that he had the clearance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the encounter.
The CBI has sent a clarification to the HM reiterating its position that there was ample evidence to prosecute ex-IB man.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to delve in detail the role of four Intelligence Bureau officials, including the former Special Director Rajinder Kumar, in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case in its supplementary charge sheet which has been finalised.
It was like I have gone 22 years back. Over 20 years have passed, but the images (of today) are the same," Devi Sharan, the captain of hijacked IC814 said.
Rajendra Kumar, Principal Secretary to Delhi CM Kejriwal, who was taken in by the CBI on Tuesday, left the investigation agency's headquarters around 10.30 pm on Tuesday night.
The court on Wednesday said that no witnesses accused Pandey of murdering and kidnapping of the victims.
The appointment of Misri, a 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, came after he served as the Indian ambassador to China for nearly three years.
The reshuffle is aimed at speeding up the implementation of the government's ambitious programmes like the SmartCity project and focus on key sectors like Mines, Information Technology and Road Transport.
Ajit Doval, former chief of Intelligence Bureau and now head of Vivekanada International Foundation, continues his furious argument against any kind of CBI action against his former colleague Rajinder Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case of 2004.
Consolidating its position, the Bharatiya Janata Party wrested high-profile Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh from the Samajwadi Party and won three assembly seats, including that of Chief Minister Manik Saha, in Tripura in by-election results announced on Sunday.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday lodged a second chargesheet in the Ishrat Jehan fake encounter case against former Intelligence Bureau special director Rajinder Kumar and three officers.
No matter how smug they sound on the surface about the potential of the dissenters to disturb the proverbial applecart, the Congress and the BJP know that their electoral calculations are precariously hinged in a seemingly tight contest.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has found that Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices were killed in cold blood so that the Gujarat Police could show a major hit.
Counting began at 8 am under multi-tier security cover. At first, postal ballots will be counted and then EVMs opened.
The bus was carrying pilgrims from outside Jammu and Kashmir to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. Katra is the base camp for the pilgrims visiting the famous shrine atop Trikuta hills.
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Mann said he took the decision after learning that the minister was allegedly demanding one percent commission for tenders.
During the Emergency years (1975-77), Dhawan was among Indira Gandhi's inner circle of leaders.
Counting of votes for the bypolls in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand will be taken up on Sunday.
The encounters between security forces and the militants erupted at around 7.30 am and continued through the day.
A Mohali court on Friday sent to 14-day judicial custody sacked Punjab minister Vijay Singla, who said he worked with 'utmost sincerity', has full faith in his party and will come out clean of corruption charges.
Controversial Punjabi singer Sidhu Mussewala, who joined the Congress sometime ago will contest from Mansa and actor Sonu Sood's sister Malvika Sood from Moga.
Polling was by and large peaceful in the bypolls for three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi on Thursday barring an incident of stabbing of a policeman in Tripura, where polling was the highest at 76.62 per cent.
In our special series re-visiting great Hindi film classics, we look back at Sanjeev Kumar's Dastak (1970).
The additional director general of police (security), however, said in an order on Friday that the security personnel were 'being withdrawn on a purely temporary basis in connection with an emergent law and order duty'.
One of the three men killed along with Ishrat Jahan had told THE Gujarat police prior to the alleged fake encounter that he planned to commit terrorist act in Ahmedabad but the Central Bureau of Investigation found "no evidence" that they had come here "to kill" Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the agency has said in its charge sheet in the 2004 case.
The Congress on Monday appointed the party's Punjab unit chief Navjot Sidhu as chairman of the state election committee.
Pargat Singh, Raj Kumar Verka, Gurkirat Singh Kotli, Sangat Singh Gilzian, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Kuljit Nagra and Rana Gurjit Singh are likely to be included in the cabinet, according to the sources.
CBI investigations point out that DG Vanzara, the then Deputy Inspector General of Gujarat Police, Border Range, received a go ahead two days prior to the encounter. Vicky Nanjappa reports
National football coach Stephen Constantine named 32 probables on Wednesday for India's upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup joint qualification Round 1 home and away matches against Nepal. India first host Nepal on March 12 at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium in Sajusarai, Guwahati, while the return leg is slated to be played in Nepal on March 17.
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