On average, 70,000 boxes of mangoes are arriving daily in Vashi market, Navi Mumbai, and 30 per cent of them are being exported, mainly to the Gulf countries.

The rise in temperatures will be more pronounced after the effects of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Fani, which hit the Odisha coast on Friday, dissipates from parts of Maharashtra and nearby regions.

Speaking at the History for Peace Conference, she said the division of religions was not watertight in ancient India and there was a “floating body of worshippers” who were fluid in their beliefs.

Gadkari stated that introduction of the double-decker sky buses will provide more ease of travel to daily commuters in Chandigarh and this will not only reduce the mounting pollution but will also represent affordability for citizens.

The JJP candidate held the erstwhile Hooda-led Congress government responsible for putting his grandfather and INLD president Om Prakash Chautala and his father Ajay Chautala behind bars in connection with a teachers’ recruitment scam.

Former Chief Minister Bansi Lal’s granddaughter Shruti Choudhry has shown over Rs 97 crore in movable and immovable assets belonging to her and her husband in her affidavit while filing her nomination for Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat as a Congress candidate.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed so miserably that the BJP was finding it difficult to get candidates for only three seats in Punjab. So they brought in Sunny Deol to contest from Gurdaspur and now believe that they have hit the bull’s eye," Congress candidate from Hoshiarpur seat and sitting MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal said.

The national film award winning actor is pitted against sitting MP and Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar, AAP’s Peter Masih and PDA’s Lal Chand. Jakhar had won the seat in a bypoll in 2017 after then sitting MP and veteran actor Vinod Khanna died. Khanna, a BJP leader, represented Gurdaspur for four terms and Deol hopes to wrest the seat from Congress.

He said the Special Investigation Team officer, who he said was transferred by the Badals, will be brought back to head the probe the day polling ends and ensure that those responsible for the sacrilege and the killings are punished.

The division bench of Justices Daya Chaudhary and Sudhir Mittal in a short order passed Thursday late evening, said, “The nomination paper of the petitioner be accepted in case the same is otherwise in order. The detailed order would follow.”

The condolence meetings, congratulatory messages on people getting married, their birthdays or on the birth of a child is how the former CM keeps in touch with the masses in his constituency Lambi.

Hooda has been asked to send his reply by 5 pm on Friday.

In a video clip it was alleged that his father, late Prof V N Tewari, was involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and that petrol was supplied from his filling station to “burn Sikhs”.

This vast Lok Sabha constituency is the only one which straddles the Majha, Malwa and Doaba areas of Punjab. The Assembly segments of Khadoor Sahib comprise Jandiala, Tarn Taran, Khem Karan, Patti, Khadoor Sahib, Baba Bakala, Kapurthala, Sultanpur Lodhi and Zira. These were also some of the worst hit areas during terrorism in Punjab.

The convict, Sahil Sharma has been held guilty under sections 279 (rash and negligent driving), 333 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC, by the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Dr Ajit Attri.

ADJ Dr Ajit Attri, while recusing himself from the case citing personal reasons, then ordered for the file to be sent to District and Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, for passing of an appropriate order.

IG Prisons O P Mishra said, “The Gracia Foundation’s co-founder Priyanka Raina approached the Burail jail authorities for conducting the workshop for women inmates.

He was responding to Chandumajra’s recent comment that Tewari was “ignorant about the meaning of the term ‘panthic’.

During the trial, Gurcharan Singh Pherurai told the court that he used his official residence’s address for the issuance of arms licenses to his close relatives as he had a threat perception and his relatives used to guard him.

The Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Gurpreet Kaur Sapra said that a total of 749 polling stations have been set up in three assembly constituencies falling in two parliamentary constituencies- Shri Anandpur Sahib and Patiala.

The accused, identified as Rampal, was arrested after a health department team along with Mullanpur Garibdas police raided the hospital on Tuesday.

The audit is being conducted under the leadership Divyang Board member Amarjit Singh Anand, who has been appointed the state coordinator for this drive.

The affidavit says that he will bring a referendum of his performance after 30 months of winning the polls, and if he fails to get the majority support, he will resign.

BJP has around a dozen star campaigners including national-level leaders and actors who will be urging people to vote for its candidate and MP Kirron Kher.