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The meeting is between a collegium of the government, the Opposition and the Chief Justice of India and focussed on the selection of the new director of the CBI. Ranjit Sinha retired as CBI chief today.
The collegium comprised the Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India HL Dattu and the leader of the largest Opposition party or Congress. In this case, Mallikarjun Kharge, who leads the Congress in the Lok Sabha, will represent the opposition.
The chief was received by GOC White Knight Corps Lt Gen K H Singh who later briefed him in detail on the security situation in the area and the proactive and effective security cover put up by the formations and units of the Corps," an army officer said.
Yesterday, Fadnavis had said that the talks with the Shiv Sena over power sharing were 70-80 per cent complete. According to the pact, Sena will be allotted a total of 12 ministries in the Fadnavis government, out of which 5 will be of Cabinet rank.
According to the pact, Sena will be allotted a total of 12 ministries in the Fadnavis government, out of which 5 will be of Cabinet rank.
However, the formal announcement in this regard is likely to be delayed in the wake of demise of Congress veteran and former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay today.
Kulgam - above 60%. Riyasi 80%, Udhampur 76%.
Overall poll percentage till around 5:30 pm is 71% and is likely to go up says Zutsi. Polls in the entire phase 2 was peaceful with no untoward incident of significance, he said.
A total of 18 seats went to polls in the second of the five phases over which assembly elections are to be held in J-K. In the fray are 175 candidates, including four sitting ministers of the coalition government.
Ignoring the separatists' call to shun the vote, electors in the five districts emulated the trend seen in the first phase by turning up at polling booths in large numbers at 8 am, the scheduled start of voting.
In September, Chinese troops had "transgressed temporarily across our perception of the LAC in Chumar area," he said in reply to a written
question in Rajya Sabha, adding they pulled back after a flag meeting.
"There have been no instances of intrusion along the India-China border. There is no commonly delineated LAC between India and China. There are areas along the border where India and China have differing perception of LAC," Parrikar said.
"Transgressions occur, on occasions, on account of both sides undertaking patrolling upto their respective perception of LAC," the minister said.
Replying to another related question, he said "due to such difference of perceptions, transgressions have also occured in the general area of Pangong Tso Lake."
Subrata Roy, the jailed head of the Sahara group has to raise a bail amount of Rs 10,000 crore. He is back in his cell in Tihar jail after living in a makeshift prison office for two months while working on the sale of three luxury hotels in New York and London.
Bijendra Singh, who was posted as a deputy commandant, is survived by two children. His wife passed away 11 months ago due to some illness, family sources said. The body will reach tonight.
Local authorities have started preparation for the last rites of the martyr.
When asked whether any monetary assistance was announced to provide the martyr's family by the Uttar Pradesh government, Singh said the district administration has not yet received any information regarding this.
Maoists had yesterday unleashed a major attack killing 14 CRPF personnel, including two officers, and injuring 12 others in the second ambush on the force in 10 days in the same area in Naxal-infested Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.
Maximum cases were reported from Maharashtra and union territories since 2013-14, with 18 cases registered this year while in Jammu and Kashmir, no such death under police custody has been recorded since 2012-13.
Judicial custody deaths were 974 this year as against 1,577 in 2013.
The new video that has surfaced today, shows the sisters beating up a man for reportedly making derogatory remarks. The incident happened in what looks like a public park. Details are awaited on this video.
On Friday, the two college-going sisters thrashed three men inside a moving bus, even as passengers chose to look the other way.
The sisters used their belts to beat the men when they used derogatory language and made obscene gestures at them. The incident was recorded by a pregnant woman passenger on her mobile phone, which went viral both on television and social media. Expectedly, the male passengers in the bus didn't bother to help the women.
A case has been registered against three men, police said, but no arrest has been made.
Lone is in a triangular contest against sitting National Conference MLA Choudhary Ramzan -- against whom his father Abdul Gani Lone had fought bitterly -- and PDP's Ghulam Mohideen Sofi, Sajad's own creation, a shopkeeper whom he had made his proxy in 2002 and who defeated Ramzan.
"Investors around the world are giving Modi, and India, the rock star treatment. Money managers have poured USD 16.5 billion into Indian stocks this year, the most of any developing country tracked by the Institute of International Finance," The Wall Street Journal has reported.
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Voting percentage in Jammu & Kashmir till 12 noon is 32.03 per cent.
Voting began this morning in 18 constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir for the second of the five-phased assembly elections in the state.
So far, people have mostly stayed indoors due to cold weather and heavy fog engulfing the Kashmir valley.
Polls are being held amid tight security in Kulgam and Kupwara districts following recent attacks on sarpanches or village heads by militants.
The BJP has also backed her saying there is no question of her resigning. "If the opposition wants, they can lodge an FIR," the BJP said.
An assessment report says that the team of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel lost about 10 AK 47/56 rifles, one self-loading rifle, an INSAS rifle and about 400 rounds of ammunition in the gunfight which took place in the jungles in the Chintagufa police station area of the district.
Three AK rifles in this cache were of an advanced configuration, fitted with the powerful under-barrel grenade launchers (UBGLs).
The report also said that about 14 suspected Naxals were killed while 15 others were injured in the gunfight which lasted for over four hours.
The entire command of the CRPF party which was caught in the encounter -- 223rd battalion -- was killed in the action, including its Deputy Commandant BS Verma, Assistant Commandant Rajesh Kapooriya and Sub-Inspector HR Sharma.
One SI of the unit has been critically injured. The report said that the Naxals, when engaged by the CRPF personnel near Kasalapada village, made 'human shields' of the local villagers, including women and the aged.
PMO is believed to have shortlisted four names for Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. Changes for J&K governor will be made once the elections are completed. Narinder Nath Vohra has been J-K governor since 2008.
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Congress says the prime minister has to explain the sadhvi's remarks and a simple apology is unacceptable.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley says that the minister has apologised and the law will take its own course.
The BJP has also said that the PM has condemned the sadhvi's remarks at the party's parliamentary meet.
"It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.' The response from around the world has been staggering. His death has stopped the Australian nation in an unprecedented way. This has been Australia's Princess Diana moment."
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She has apologised in the Rajya Sabha as well amid clamour from the opposition that she should resign.
Addressing voters while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, in west Delhi's Shyam Nagar, Niranjan Jyoti on Monday called on the electorate to choose between Ramzadon and h********n.
"Aapko tay karna hai ki Dilli mein sarkar Ramzadon ki banegi ya har**zadon ki. Yeh aapka faisla hai (you have to decide whether Delhi will get a government of those born of Ram or of those born illegitimately)," said the BJP MP from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.
The 47-year-old Niranjan Jyoti joined the Modi government as a minister of state for food processing on November 9.
During the rally, the minister also attacked Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, over his wealth.
Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and AICC general secretary Mohan Prakash had visited the 85-year-old Antulay, who was also a union minister in UPA-I.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was in Mumbai to attend the funeral of senior party leader Murli Deora last week, was scheduled to visit the Breach Candy hospital and inquire about his health.
However, due to a change in her schedule, she asked Patel and Mohan Prakash to call on the ailing leader.
The former Maharashtra chief minister had been ill for some time and was admitted to the Breach Candy hospital for a kidney failure recently.
Antulay (85) had served as a union minister in UPA-1 government.
Here's the synopsis.
It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war.
One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War.
The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue.
Among them is Kesri Singh, a havildar in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love, and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husbands wealth and reputation.
Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and Chinas devastating defeat, to Britains seizure of Hong Kong.
To be published May 2015 in India.
This is a huge comedown for the Shiv Sena which just three days earlier, had told the BJP that it would settle for nothing less than the deputy chief ministership and home ministership.
Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil on Friday held talks with Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and persuaded him to let the Sena join the government. Sena veteran Subhash Desai too was present at the hour-long conclave at Matoshree.
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IS may have a 'dirty bomb', says report
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Over 50 Jamaat terrorists hiding in Bengal?
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