Former PDP MLA Javed Mir joins Shah Faisal
Srinagar: Former Peoples Democratic Party member Javed Mustafa Mir on Wednesday joined former IAS officer turned politician Shah Faisal. Mir joined Faisal’s Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement after he quit PDP in January this year. He had not cited any reason that time as to why he had quit PDP.
BJP no longer an outsider but a mainstream party in J&K: Ram Madhav
Srinagar: BJP senior leader and incharge of Kashmir affairs on Wednesday said that their party is no longer an outsider but a mainstream party in the state. “BJP is now a mainstream party even though our footprints are not huge but we are no longer an outsiders,” madhav told a presser here. According […]
Sensex jumps over 200 pts; Nifty reclaims 11,500 level
Mumbai, Mar 27 (PTI) The benchmark BSE Sensex jumped over 200 points and the NSE Nifty reclaimed the 11,500 mark in early trade Wednesday led by gains in banking stocks amid sustained foreign fund inflows and positive global cues. The 30-share index was trading 205.47 points, or 0.54 per cent, higher at […]
Goa: 2 MGP MLAs break away from party, merge legislative wing with BJP
Panaji, Mar 27 (PTI) Two of the three MGP MLAs in Goa early Wednesday merged their party’s legislative wing with the BJP, which now has 14 legislators in the 40-member state assembly. Legislators Manohar Ajgaonkar and Dipak Pawaskar gave a letter to merge the MGP legislature party with the BJP to officiating Goa Assembly Speaker […]
Nawaz Sharif walks out of prison after 3 months on medical grounds
Lahore, Mar 27 (PTI) Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him six weeks’ bail to receive medical treatment within the country. Sharif, 69, was lodged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail since December last year, serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel […]
Man asks 26-yr-old to return loan, killed
New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) A 26-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly killing a person, who had asked him to pay back a loan of Rs 30,000, police said Tuesday. The case was solved within 24 hours of the incident, they said. Nitin Yadav was arrested for killing Bhoj Narayanan in south-west Delhi with […]
Cop kills auto dealer over car repair; held
Raipur, Mar 26 (PTI) An automobile dealer was Tuesday shot dead in his shop here in Chhattisgarh allegedly by a police constable following a dispute over a car deal, police said. The incident occurred this afternoon in Pachpedi Naka area when Sanjay Agrawal was in his shop, Purani Basti area City Superintendent of Police (CSP) […]
Man gets 10-year RI for raping girl
Kolkata, Mar 26 (PTI) A city court Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl after forcibly marrying her at a temple. Abhijit Paik was found guilty of kidnapping the girl from her home in Narkeldanga area in the eastern part of the city and raping her. Additional Sessions […]
Gurgaon Muslim family assailants felt they were immune to law: Yogendra Yadav
Gurgaon, Mar 26 (PTI) Expressing shock at “brutal attack” on a Muslim family in Gurgaon, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav Tuesday said the assailants were confident that they will not by punished for their misdeed. Yadav visited the victim family Monday at Bhoop Singh Nagar here and demanded from the Gurgaon administration and Haryana government […]
Old Congress loyalist’s son to take on Rahul in Amethi
Amethi (UP), Mar 26 (PTI) Severing generations-old links with the Congress, the son of a veteran party loyalist has decided to take on Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in the Lok Sabha polls. Haroon Rashid, whose father Haji Sultan had been the “proposer” in the poll nomination papers of the present Congress president’s father Rajiv Gandhi and […]