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CBI uploads new most-wanted list

Around three weeks after it withdrew the “most-wanted” list from its website, following its incorrect mention of an accused who was found in Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday uploaded an updated list having 143 names.

Tension rises in Valley, cops on alert

Tension is mounting in Srinagar ahead of the death anniversary of Tufail Ahmed Mattoo, a 17-year-old student killed in police action here on June 11, 2010. The incident had set off widespread civil unrest in Kashmir Valley in which more than 110 people died.

BJP core group meets over Ramdev issue

The BJP core group met on Friday late evening to decided its future course of action on the Ramdev issue. The core group comprising party chief Nitin Gadkari, Ms Sushma Swaraj and Mr Ananth Kumar met at the residence of senior leader L.K. Advani. Sources disclosed that the saffron camp intends to make Ramdev a major political issue to take

Quiet funeral, burial in London

Indian’s best-known contemporary painter, Maqbool Fida Husain, who died of a heart attack on Thursday, was buried in a simple ceremony in London on Friday afternoon.

Mirwaiz appeals to pandits to return

In a significant development, a fervent appeal was made on Friday from the pulpit of Srinagar’s Grand Mosque to Kashmiri pandits, who fled the Valley following the outbreak of separatist violence more than two decades ago, to return home and “live here with their Muslim brethren without any fear”.

Maya prepares for Delhi civic polls

After shocking rivals with good results in the last MCD polls, BSP supremo Mayawati is all set to blow the election bugle on June 16 for the next year’s municipal polls in Delhi. She is expected to gear up the party machinery in Delhi during her day long meetings with the BSP functionaries. Though the MCD election is still a year away, Ms Mayawati is likely to ask the party machinery to go into the poll mode.

Accused in murder case, minister quits

Haryana’s transport minister Om Prakash Jain and chief parliamentary secretary Zile Ram Sharma, who have been accused of ordering the killing of a former village sarpanch, resigned on the directions of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Minor girl raped in moving car

A minor girl was raped in a moving car in Sultanpuri area in West Delhi. A case has been registered but none has been arrested yet.

Uma Bharti bid to win over BJP detractors

Barely two days after she was re-inducted in the BJP, Uma Bharti is busy mending fences. In a bid to erase her famous acrimonies with some of the top most leaders in the BJP, Ms Bharti is losing no time in meeting some of these leaders. On Thursday, the firebrand sanyasin met Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, to take

Undertrials turn violent at Tis Hazari, cops fire teargas

The police fired teargas shells and charged with batons as a section of undertrial prisoners on Thursday went on the rampage in the lockup at the Tis Hazari court here, smashing furnitures and fittings, leaving nine people injured.

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