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Jammu, Mar 9: BJP legislators in Jammu and Kashmir today lodged a strong protest with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed over the release of hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam and demanded his re-arrest. The party also took exception to the "misinformation campaign" that the decision to release Alam was taken after consulting it. The MLAs led by state BJP General Secretary Rajiv Jasrotia

New Delhi, Mar 9: Opposition today created ruckus in the Lok Sabha over the release of separatist leader Masarat Alam by PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir demanding an explanation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even as the government asserted that it was not consulted on the issue. As soon as the House met, several Opposition parties, including Congress, raised the issue and demanded

Kohima, Mar 8: At least eighteen persons have been arrested in connection with the lynching incident in Dimapur even as protests against the killing continued to rock many parts of the state today. Police said the arrests were made after going through the mobile video clippings of the incident. Protests against the lynching were reported from different parts of the state, including Karimganj, and

New Delhi, Mar 8: Denouncing the violence against women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said one-stop- centres and mobile helplines will be set up for women in distress. "Our heads hang in shame when we hear of instances of crime against women. We must walk shoulder-to-shoulder to end all forms of discrimination or injustice against women," he said in a message on the occasion of International

Srinagar, Mar 8: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday night said he had no "regrets" that his government had detained the hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam who was released following the order of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. "Yes, my government detained Masarat Alam and we kept him out of circulation. Detention isn't ideal but difficult

Dimapur(Nagaland), Mar 7: Jamal Uddin Khan, the brother of the man lynched in Nagaland's Dimapur on Thursday, has claimed that medical reports have shown that the woman who had filed a rape complaint against his brother had not been sexually assaulted. Speaking to media, he alleged that his brother, Syed Sarif Uddin Khan, had been made a scapegoat and framed by Naga groups, and claimed that the

New Delhi, Mar 7: AAP leader Mayank Gandhi today accused a "small group of party decision makers" of targeting him after he decried the decision to remove Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav from the Political Affairs Committee and said it could compel him to quit. He also said that a concerted effort was being made on the social media to portray him as "anti-party" and "anti-AK" (Arvind Kejriwal)

Colombo, Mar 7: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has justified Lankan Navy's actions against Indian fishermen saying that that the law creates provisions for a man to 'shoot' an intruder in his home. In an interview to Thanthi TV, a Chennai based news channel, Wickremasinghe said his government was willing to make a 'reasonable deal' with India with respect to the fishing rights. "If

New Delhi / Kohima, Mar 7: The Centre has sought a report from Nagaland on the mob lynching of a rape-accused man by a mob in Nagaland's Dimapur, and put neighbouring Assam on high alert for possible violence. The mob had broken into the prison where the rape-accused was being held and dragged him out on to the streets naked before lynching him and hanging his body from a clock tower. Nagaland

New Delhi, Mar 6: Editors Guild of India today appealed to the government to revoke the ban on the telecast of the BBC documentary, depicting the aftermath of the brutal gangrape and murder of Nirbhaya in 2012, saying the move was "wholly unwarranted". The Guild said in a statement here that the documentary, 'Storyville: India's daughter', portrayed the courage, sensibility and liberal outlook of