Jitu Patwari, was briefly detained along with a few Congress supporters as he sought to enter the resort in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Karnataka.
Snubbed by his party leader Rahul Gandhi and panned by the Bharatiya Janata Party for questioning surgical strikes, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh swung into damage control mode on Tuesday and said his questions were to the government and not the armed forces.
On Saturday, an online marijuana sale racket was busted by Bhind police in Madhya Pradesh, leading to the arrest of two persons and seizure of 20 kilograms of the contraband, according to an official. The accused were operating the racket through a leading e-commerce firm, which received two-thirds of the profits generated, as per the official.
The searches are linked to suspected movement of hawala money during the ongoing polls season and tax evasion, they said.
Madhya Pradesh police said violence in Bhind and Morena districts was 'sponsored'.
All of them were sent to a shelter for medical examination and a bus was being organised for their further transit, he said. A video of workers emerging from the small hole of the cement-mixer in the presence of police has gone viral on social media.
The class 5 student had gone missing while on his way to school in the state capital on August 14.
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"Hemant Karkare falsely implicated me. He died of his karma. I told him, he will be destroyed. I told him his entire dynasty will be erased," Pragya said.
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The Congress took out marches and observed bandh at several places on Saturday to protest against rising fuel prices.
While he was lodged in district jail in Azad Nagar in Indore, a police team 'officially' arrested him for a protest on June 4 over power cuts.
The migrants were ferried to their villages in sanitised buses arranged by the Jharkhand government to take them home after preliminary medical screening at the station, officials said.
He also said that a decision regarding reopening of pre-university and degree colleges will be taken after assessing the situation.
Delhi, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra on Monday confirmed bird flu cases, adding to the list of seven states -- Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh -- which had already reported avian deaths due to the disease.
A Jharkhand court framed charges against accused through a WhatsApp call.
The state government had appointed a single member judicial commission to probe the sensational jailbreak and the subsequent alleged encounter killings. The Judicial Commission of Inquiry was headed by retired high court judge S K Pandey.
Bhopal (South) superintendent of police Anshuman Singh said the police had not received any complaint in this regard.
Those who were held guilty included Safdar Nagori, Javed Ahmed and Atikur Rehman. Among those acquitted were Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
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As the man raised a finger at Patel while talking, an irked minister gestured him to lower his finger, and said, "If you spoke in this manner, you will get two slaps. (Aisa bolega to do khayega)."
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People took to the streets in New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jammu, Bhopal, Patna and other cities and set fire to the Chinese flag and photos of the neighbouring country's President Xi Jinping. Protesters urged the Modi government to ensure that martyrdom of the soldiers in the Galwan Valley did not go in vain.
As the month-long fasting observed by the people of the Muslim community during Ramzan came to an end on Modnay, devotees across the country offered namaz on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr in large numbers on Tuesday.
A special court in Ahmedabad on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case, which had claimed 56 lives and left over 200 injured.
Rohit Singh, 30, entered the woman's flat in the apartment building located in Misrod area of Bhopal around 7 am and took her to a room at gunpoint and bolted it from inside.
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It took 110 days for the COVID-19 cases in the country to reach one lakh while it had taken 59 days more to go past the 10-lakh post.
The Government Railway Police in Bhopal on Thursday took into custody a bag filled with Rs 10 lakh from the air conditioned coach of the Bhopal Express in which Congress Member of Parliament Sandeep Dikshit was travelling. According to the police, the bag was handed over to the GRP by an attendant of the coach, after the train in which Dikshit was travelling from Delhi arrived in Bhopal on Thursday morning. Initially, it was believed that the bag belonged to the Congress MP.
Keeping up the tradition, a 'battle' was fought at Gautampura, around 55 km from Bhopal, between two groups from neighbouring villages as part of Diwali festivity in which 75 persons received minor injuries
In view of the volatile situation, the Centre rushed 1,100 personnel of anti-riot Rapid Action Force.
People came out of homes in large numbers, offered namaz at mosques, greeted each other with hugs and exchanged food and gifts across the length and breadth of India to celebrate Eid-ul-Adha on Sunday.
At least 14 people were killed when a Bolero car carrying them was rammed by a speeding Bhopal-Howrah train in Jharkhand in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.
A similar protest was organised by farmers on the Lucknow-Sitapur Highway.
The joint statement was issued by retired DGPs Julio Ribeiro, Prakash Singh, P K Hormis Tharakan, Kamal Kumar, Jacob Punnoose, Sanjeev Dayal, Jayanto Choudhury and N Ramachandran.
Incessant showers caused landslides and floods in various parts of the country leaving at least 17 people dead on Wednesday while thousands more were forced to move to safety as rivers swelled and water reservoirs filled up fast.
"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.
