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A woman in Delhi, Sonia gave one lakh rupees ransom to goons in return for killing her parents. Sonia and her lover Prince had killed the couple with the help of the goons of them and threw dead bodies in a briefcase. Sonia and Prince are currently lodged in Tihar jail and the police are searching for absconding accused. Senior ...

The mastermind of the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 CRPF personnel had died, has been killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Tral area, officials said Monday. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist Mudasir Ahmed Khan alias ‘Mohd Bhai’ was among two militants killed in the encounter in Tral’s Pinglish area in Pulwama district, they said. The encounter lasted past ...

Bihar will witness a seven-phase polling for its 40 Lok Sabha seats, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) H R Srinivasan said Sunday. The polls will start with the first phase on April 11 and will end on May 19 when the seventh and last phase will be held. The decision to carry out elections in seven phases has been made ...

The Delhi Cabinet Friday approved recommendations of a fare revision committee to hike auto-rickshaw tariffs by Rs 1.50 per kilometre. The meter-down charge of Rs 25 per two kilometre has also been revised by the committee to Rs 25 for 1.5 kilometre, said Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot. The revised charges will be implemented after the Transport Department’s notification, Gahlot said. ...

Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested a MNREGA program officer while accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh in Saran district of Bihar. According to a release issued by the Vigilance Investigation Bureau, the officer posted in Masrakh block and holding the additional charge of Hasuapur block, was held by a team headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Gopal Paswan. He ...

Authorities Friday imposed restrictions in parts of the city here as a precautionary measure in view of apprehensions of law and order after the Centre banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir for five years. Restrictions have been imposed in five police stations of Srinagar, a police official said. He said the curbs under section 144 CrPc were imposed in police station ...

Srinagar, Jammu and Leh airports were Wednesday closed for civilian air traffic shortly after an IAF jet crashed in Budgam district and amid escalation of cross-Line of Control shelling between armies of India and Pakistan. “The civilian air traffic has been suspended temporarily in view of the emergency,” an official of the Airport Authority of India told PTI. While the ...

In what may be seen as a blow to the disjointed anti-NDA front in Bihar, the Bahujan Samaj Party has decided to contest all the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, a senior party functionary said on Monday. According to BSP state in-charge Lalji Medhkar, party supremo Mayawati has convened a meeting of all potential candidates and other office-bearers ...

An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Sopore township of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday morning, police said. Acting on specific input, the security personnel launched a cordon and search operation in the Warpora area of Sopore, they said. A senior official said the search operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired at ...

The higher reaches of Kashmir received fresh snowfall, while the plains were lashed with rains overnight, the MET Office said on Thursday. An official of the MET Department said the famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded 29 cms of snow, while Kupwara received 11 cms of fresh snowfall during the night. Snow was also recorded in some areas ...