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At least seven insurgents belonging to Naga rebel group, Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang, including one woman cadre, were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces that took place at Pangsha in Tuensang district of Nagaland close to Indo-Myanmar border.
A three-member delegation of the party -- Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu, Nirmala Sitharaman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi -- met EC officials and submitted their memorandum.
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Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal spent the night at a police lock-up in Panaji with two murder accused and an anti-social person, after he was arrested by the crime branch.
The 80-year-old anti-corruption crusader, whose previous agitation propelled many leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, to the national limelight has decided that those who wish to associate with him now will have to swear in an affidavit that they will not join politics in future.
A large number of people took out a 'solidarity march' in South Delhi on Sunday in support of Jamia Millia Islamia students and those facing police action during protests against the contentious law.
The ruling People's Democratic Party has also used Twitter to put out press releases and at times counter the criticism levelled by opposition parties.
Asked whether he will join the BJP, he said, "Why not? Whatever Maharaj ji tells me, I will do."
Kicking up a controversy, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Suresh Rana said that curfew will be imposed in Kairana, Deoband and Moradabad if he is elected again in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next month.
Fifty girl students of a middle school in Bihar's Sitamarhi district were taken ill on Friday after drinking water from a tubewell, officials said.
The bureaucracy in Haryana blamed the government for inexperience and criminal negligence.
Communalising law and order situations is fraught with danger; we need to tread cautiously. Interjecting a communal angle into what is purely a law and order issue does nobody good; it muddies the picture, fuels unrequited passion and distracts us from the core issue, says Vivek Gumaste.
With GDP down by 2 per cent, while 99 per cent of banned notes make way back to the banking system, whom did demonetisation benefit?
Modi said that Gandhi wouldn't have approved of this.
The CM said 6,000 students in government colleges and 1.45 lakh in private colleges will benefit with the decision.
A few incidents of protests were reported in Jammu city even as mobile Internet services remained suspended and policemen deployed in strength to thwart any flare up.
The United Kingdom is planning a tougher law to tackle the threat of Islamist terrorism in the country in the wake of the recent beheading of a United States journalist by a suspected British Islamic State militant in Iraq.
The CM also said the damage caused to some media personnel's equipment during the violence will be taken care of the government.
To review the security and other poll arrangements ahead of Assembly elections in five states, the Election Commission will hold a meeting of chief secretaries, directors general of police and chief electoral officers of poll-bound and neighbouring states in New Delhi on Wednesday.
With objectionable posts on social networking sites trigging violence over the past week, the Maharashtra government is mulling action against not only those who upload them but also against those who "like" and forward them, state's Home Minister R R Patil said on Monday.
'It is a welcome development, but the ordinance has limited validity of six months, that is the problem.' 'Therefore, we are urging all political parties including the Congress to collaborate and bring a law.'
Stepping up their agitation, power employees in Seemandhra on Sunday began an indefinite strike to protest the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh.
The protesters marched from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar carrying the flag, depicting 110 years of their struggle for separate state.
Internet services in Jammu and Kashmir were fully restored on Monday, three days after the state government ordered the termination of data services fearing trouble during Eid-ul Azha, popularly known as Bakri Eid.
Curfew continued for the second day in Bihar's Nawada town on Tuesday after a violent clash between two communities that claimed two lives and left over half a dozen seriously injured, police said.
Earlier, the Home Ministry had raised concerns over the use of Aadhaar number as a single source of identity verification.
Agitating students demanded the immediate removal of Dattareya from the Union Cabinet.
While Rajini said the protests by the students 'should be etched in golden letters', Haasan questioned police force on the students.
There are indications that the Modi dispensation was disinclined to bring the VHP into the temple-mosque frame.
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This is the first arrest under the Act which came into force in July 2017, replacing the 1982 vintage law, according to which an accused can face a maximum punishment of life imprisonment till death and his properties can be confiscated, police said.
Marathas, a politically influential community that constitutes around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education.
'People with vested interests in the BJP don't want the Patels to get reservation.'
Amid reports of simmering tensions in some parts of the national capital ahead of Muharram on Tuesday, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi assured that all security measures have been taken, especially in sensitive areas and warned that those found involved in spreading rumours will be dealt with strongly.
'Till we are able to understand this reality of what is happening to our fellow citizens today in 2018, it would be hypocrisy to continue to teach in our textbooks about the great atrocity of 1919,' argues Aakar Patel.
Taking a swipe at DMK president's statement that the party would take steps to implement prohibition if voted to power in the next elections, AIADMK said it was done with an eye on polls.
Police said town inspector of Pipliamandi Anil Singh Thakur has been removed from field duties in connection with the firing on farmers.
