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Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti was arrested on Thursday for allegedly inciting a crowd to damage AIIMS' fence and misbehaving with the hospital's security personnel earlier this month. The chief security officer of AIIMS had on September 9 given a written complaint stating that "Bharti provoked a mob to damage the fence of the hospital with a JCB at Gautam Nagar Nallah road in order to give

United nations, Sep 22: India today called Pakistan a "terrorist state" and accused it of carrying out "war crimes" against Indians through its "long-standing policy" of sponsoring terrorism, hours after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif racked up Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly session. In a strong rebuttal, India said the terrorists designated by the UN continued to roam Pakistan's

Ludhiana, Sep 22: Top Punjab Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh leader Brigadier (Retd) Jagdish Gagnejapassed away on Thursday morning, after battling for life at the Hero DMC Heart Institute for over 45 days. The senior RSS leader died after suffering from a kidney infection, reports news agency. Gagneja, the senior vice president of the Punjab unit of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was shot thrice in the

New York, Sep 22: Strongly reacting to Pakistan Prime Minister's remarks at the UN, India today described them as non-factual and full of "threat bluster" and said glorification of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani by him at the world forum is an act of "self-incrimination" by Pakistan. "We just heard a speech full of threat bluster and rising immaturity and complete disregard of facts," Minister of

Chandigarh, Sep 21: Former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today announced that he will not float a party to contest the upcoming Punjab Assembly election, as he does not wish to play "spoilsport" by dividing anti-incumbency votes. Days after announcing the launch of Aawaaz-e-Punjab, the former BJP MP said they have decided against forming a political party as it is too short a time to prepare for polls

New Delhi, Sep 21: In yet another arrest of an AAP MLA, Amanatullah Khan was today held in connection with a sexual harassment case filed against him by his sister-in-law, the second time the legislator has faced action by Delhi Police in three months. Earlier on September 18, the Okhala MLA, who is out on bail in another case of molestation and criminal intimidation, had gone to the Jamia Nagar

New Delhi, Sep 21: In a major overhaul, the Cabinet today approved advancing presentation of the annual Budget by a month, scrapped over nine-decade old tradition of having a separate Railway Budget and removed classifications for expenditure to make the exercise simpler. With a view to get all the legislative approvals for the annual spending and tax proposals before the beginning of the new

Srinagar/New Delhi, Sep 21: The Army on Tuesday gunned down a group of infiltrators which tried to cross over to the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) under the cover of Pakistani firing in Jammu and Kashmir. This incident came even as the government mulled over options to retaliate against Pakistan for an audacious terror strike that killed 18 soldiers in Uri town two days ago. Another

Lucknow, Sep 20: Amar Singh, who survived the recent "outsider" storm in ruling Samajwadi Party, was today appointed SP General Secetary by party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. "You have been appointed general secretary of Samajwadi Party. I hope in the coming days you will strengthen the party in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections," Mulayam said in a handwritten letter to Amar. The brief letter in

Srinagar, Sep 20: Two days after the terror attack in Uri, Pakistani troops today violated the border ceasefire in the same sector of Kashmir, targeting Indian army positions with small firearms.However, there was no damage in the incident, army said. "Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing by small arms towards Indian positions in Uri sector this afternoon," an army official said. He said