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Srinagar, Mar 26: Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants were today killed when they tried to ambush a police party that included three officers of the rank of superintendent of police in south Kashmir's Pulwama district. One of the slain militants has been identified as Shahbaz Safi Wani alias Rayees Kachru, who was active in the area since June, 2016. Wani was involved in an attack on a security picket

Gorakhpur, Mar 26: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Aditya Nath Yogi today asked all BJP office bearers and public representatives not to undertake any contractual work and instead monitor them for effective execution. He said BJP's unprecedented win the recent Assembly elections had only increased the responsibilities of the party and its workers. "No office bearer of the party or any public

Chennai, Mar 26: A businessman from Tiruchengode at Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu got into legal trouble after depositing Rs 246 crore cash at an Indian Overseas Bank branch, said reports. IT officials were quoted as saying that the man (whose name has not been revealed) was being tracked for 15 days after he deposited the case in demonetised currency notes. Though he tried to hide, after a

Gorakhpur, Mar 26: Unable to repay his loan, a man today tried to immolate himself in Gorakhnath temple, where Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was attending an event. Rajkumar Bharti, a resident of Rajpur Devri in Ballia district, poured petrol on himself and tried to set himself afire during the CM's programme, police said. He was, however, caught by the people present at the site

New delhi, Mar 26: Asking the people to take the fight against black money and graft to the "next level", Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged them to use less cash in their daily lives and continue to support the movement towards digital payments started after the note ban. In his monthly 'Mann ki Baat' programme, he also spoke of building a 'New India', which he said can be achieved when 125

New Delhi, Mar 26: The detention of two clerics from Delhi's famous Nizamuddin Dargah in Pakistan was likely to have been the result of a botched ISI operation as there was nothing remotely suspicious or out of place in their visit to Lahore. The account now available suggests that the uncle-nephew duo of Asif Nizami and Nizam Nizami were detained by Pakistan intelligence operatives earlier this

New Delhi, Mar 26: Ahead of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s proposed visit to Ayodhya, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has upped the ante on Hindtuva, with its international working president Pravin Togadia reiterating his demand for a law to enable the construction of the Ram temple. Adityanath is set to visit Ayodhya on Monday, his first visit since taking charge of Uttar Pradesh, and after the

Uttar Pradesh, Mar 25: In his first public speech after taking charge as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath said that his government will work for the development of all and there won't be any discrimination on the base of caste, religion. He was addressing the public meeting in his home constituency from where he was elected to Lok Sabha for five times. "Development of all

New Delhi, Mar 25: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other AAP leaders were today put on trial in a criminal defamation case filed by Union Minister Arun Jaitley in the DDCA controversy, amid chaotic scenes in a court room here. Advocates from both the sides indulged in a heated argument over non-appearance of Jaitley after Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Sumit Dass started the

New Delhi, Mar 25: Himanshu Kumar, a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer, was suspended today for "indiscipline". Earlier this week, Kumar alleged on Twitter that the new Adityanath administration is targeting cops from the Yadav community. Kumar, a 2010-batch Indian Police Service officer attached with the Director General of Police's (DGP) office in Lucknow, said in the tweet that those police