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The prime accused in the murder of Chandan Gupta in Kasganj was arrested today as the strife-torn western Uttar Pradesh town, which saw communal clashes last week, moved towards normalcy despite tension in some pockets, officials said. The UP government submitted a report on the incidents in Kasganj to the Union Home ministry conveying that the police were probing the violence and whether it was pre-planned, an official said. “Saleem, the main accused, has been nabbed,” IG, Aligarh range, Sanjeev Gupta said. Aged below 30, Saleem, and his two brothers,…

Ahead of the panchayat election in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will kick-start major state-wide projects for new roads and doubling of existing ones. “In order to strengthen the rural road infrastructure in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on February 12 at Nadia flag off the construction of 8700 km of rural road projects spread across the state,” said Pradip Kr Mazumdar, the agriculture advisor to the chief minister. “Out the 8700 kms of roads approximately 75 per cent will be new grameen (village) roads…

Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has claimed that Congress will emerge as winner in bypolls conducted in Ajmer and Alwar Lok Sabha constituencies and Mandalgarh Assembly seat in the state yesterday. Congress will win bypolls conducted on all the three seats, Gehlot said talking to reporters in Kota today. State election department has made arrangements for counting scheduled on February 1 for all the three seats. Information of all rounds of counting will be available on department’s website, a spokesperson said. Bypolls were necessitated in these three seats due…