Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Thane, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) A woman and her five-year-old daughter were killed in a fire at a shop in Airoli area of Navi Mumbai early today, a fire department official said. The fire broke out around 4 am in the stationery shop in which the victims used to live, Airoli fire station in-charge Eknath Pawar said. On getting information about the blaze, firemen rushed to the spot. As the shop was locked from inside, they broke open the door to enter the premises engulfed with dense smoke, he said. The…

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Lucknow, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) Accusing the opposition of sympathising with criminals, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today declared in the state Legislative Council that police encounters in the state would not stop. Speaking in the House during the Zero Hour, Adityanath pointed toward the opposition and said everybody knew who gave patronage to criminals. A total of 40 dreaded criminals have been gunned down in 1200 encounters, and this will continue, the chief minister said. He was replying to Devendra Pratap Singh’s (BJP) question on propriety pertaining to the…

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Jammu, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) Jammu and Kashmir would have a law varsity on the lines of the Bangalore-based National Law School of India University (NLSU) and the process to establish it will begin this year, an official said. The state legislature had passed a Bill to establish a national law university in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, a senior Law Department officer said today. The process to establish it would be started this year to improve the quality of professional legal education in the state, the officer said. State Law…

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Jammu, Feb 15 (DIN NEWS) The Army has foiled an infiltration attempt by a group of militants along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior Army officer said today. “Suspicious movements by a group of four to five militants were noticed along LoC in Mendhar sector of Poonch during the night,” the officer said. Alert troops engaged the suspected militants and fired on them, he said adding that the troops foiled their attempt to cross over the LoC. A search operation is under way in…

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A Tamil Nadu based fringe Hindu outfit today wanted the district administration to ban Valentine’s Day celebrations tomorrow. Such celebrations are against the culture and tradition of India, Hindu Makkal Katchi president Arjun Sampath told reporters here. He also took strong objection to actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan’s reported remarks on “Hindu extremism.” Haasan recently courted controversy when he hit out at whathe called Hindu extremism, claiming that right-wing groups have taken to violence because their earlier “strategy” has stopped working. The actor, who is facing flak over his comments on right-wing…

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Mopping up operations were under way at a building in Srinagar’s Karan Nagar area with security forces killing two terrorists, officials said today. The encounter between militants and security forces, which began yesterday after the ultras tried to attack a CRPF camp, resumed this morning after an overnight lull. The identity and group affiliation of the slain militants were not immediately known. Security forces had launched a final assault on the terrorists hiding in an under construction building in Karan Nagar area this morning, officials said. The incident came two…

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi today accused RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat of “disrespecting” the Army and those who have laid down their lives for the country. Gandhi slammed Bhagwat over his remarks that the RSS could “prepare” military personnel faster than the Army. The RSS chief’s speech was an “insult” to every Indian, the Congress president said and demanded an apology from the RSS.”The RSS Chief’s speech is an insult to every Indian, because it disrespects those who have died for our nation. It is an insult to our flag because…

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Attacking the BJP, BSP chief Mayawati alleged today that the killing of a Dalit student in Allahabad was the result of narrow and casteist politics of hatred being pursued by the state’s ruling party. “The barbaric murder of a Dalit student in Allahabad is not an isolated case as such incidents are occurring on a regular basis. And no one else but the BJP’s narrow, casteist politics of hatred is responsible for it,” she said in a press release here. Mayawati said that such incidents had vitiated the atmosphere in…

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The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today passed the 37th Constitutional Amendment Bill 2018 to hike the salaries of the chief justice and judges of the high court in the state. The salary of the chief justice has been raised from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2.50 lakh and that of the judges from Rs 80,000 to Rs 2.25 lakh. Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law and Justice, Abdul Haq Khan, who moved the bill in the House, said Parliament has amended High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and…

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