With this, the SAD has announced eight of its 10 candidates from Punjab. Its alliance partner the BJP is contesting from the other three seats — Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur.

Avtar Singh, a resident of Panjokhra village in Ambala, was attacked when he was returning from a local restaurant after having dinner with his friends around 9.15 pm. Police said Singh was in plain clothes and he was attacked by half a dozen people.

The family members of the victims also demanded a government job to the kin of Veeru while the families of Honey Kumar and Lakhan demanded release of their salaries along with the compensation

While Gayle played a smashing knock of 99 runs and guided Kings XI Punjab to a total of 173 for 4 in the allotted 20 overs, Kohli played a knock of 67 runs before De Villiers played an unbeaten knock of 59 runs to guide the visitors to their first win of this IPL season.

As the video clip went viral, ACP Noopur Bishnoi was ordered to probe the incident. He along with Mansa Devi SHO, Inspector Rajeev Kumar, visited the shrine and recorded the statements of around a dozen people.

The complainant has alleged that Singh, an MLA from Badshahpur, filed misleading and contradictory affidavits about his educational degrees and certificates in 2005 and 2014 state assembly elections at the time of filing of nomination papers.

“The States of Punjab and Haryana are guilty of ignoring the provisions of law enacted by their own state legislatures and secondly, the respondent states are in contempt of the judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Prakash Singh’s case,” reads the plea. 

Acting on a tip-off, a Crime Branch team laid a trap and nabbed a history-sheeter, identified as Manoj Vilas Dhotre (34), in Swargate area on April 8. During a search, police said they recovered a pistol and two live cartridges from him.

The details FIR was not available as police provided only the first page to reporters. The detailed copy was not be available online till the filing of the report. The SIT members too did not respond to the repeated phone calls.

Pavanjit Mane, state president of FITE, said they had taken up the matter with the office of the additional labour commissioner to ensure companies declared a holiday on April 23 and 29 to allow their employees to cast their votes.

The woman, identified as Vasanti Maruti Nandavdekar, and her son, Soham, were travelling with their family to their native place in Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur, to attend the funeral of the woman’s mother-in-law.

The first forecast, like the one that will come this week, only gives the percentage of LPA that is likely to take place during the season. IMD comes up with a follow-up forecast, usually in June, in which it gives the region-wise and month-wise distribution of rainfall.

The man, Mayur Khole, a resident of Patil Estate slum in Shivajinagar, says that he belongs to the Hindu Matang community, and heads an ‘Ayodhya Group’ of over 100 local youths. His father Suresh has been associated with Patit Pavan Sanghatna, a Hindutva group, for many years.

Alphonso or Hapus is called the ‘king of mangoes’ because of its unique taste and texture. Originally, mangoes grown in the Konkan region of the state were known by this name but over the years, other states such as Karnataka and Kerala have also started growing this fruit.

Modi is going to address an election rally in Madha in a couple of days and he is likely to make a brief halt at Pune en route, on April 16 or 17. The PMC’s official communication has mentioned that there was a need to “maintain secrecy about the Prime Minister’s visit” due to Model Code of Conduct.

While he may not be their star campaigner, Rohit Pawar prefers to call himself a star karyakarta. In an interview with The Indian Express, he talks about how the strategy is to meet key people and groups.

In Nagpur (overall 54.67 per cent voting, down from 57.12 per cent in 2014), where Union minister Nitin Gadkari is looking to retain the seat, voting in all the Assembly segments was more or less the same.

Prakash Ambedkar’s Bharatiya Republican Party Bahujan Mahasangh and Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) had joined forces to form the VBA in a bid to consolidate the Muslim-Dalit votes and provide an alternative to the established alliances in the state.

The issue of the election symbol had cropped up after the BMP nominated candidates on the Palghar seat. The BVA, led by Vasai MLA Hitendra Thakur, reportedly had held talks with BMP’s national president, Taslimunissa Khan, urging her to change the party’s decision.

Of the 18.54 lakh voters in Akola Lok Sabha seat, there are 2.75 lakh Dalits and 2.50 lakh Muslims. The Marathas and Kunbhi communities together constitute a vote share of 4.5 lakh. The remaining votes are scattered among various communities and sub-groups.

The SIT report has negated the claim of the Khanna police that Father Anthony Madassery and five others were picked up from a checkpoint.

“We passed two main resolutions. In one resolution we demanded from the British government heavy compensation to the families of the victims who were killed 100 years back and told the UK government that their regret is not enough for this genocide,” Abdul Rashid Qureshi, president of the foundation, told The Indian Express.

Sir Dominic Asquith is accompanied by British Deputy High Commissioner Andrew Ayre. Both are likely to lay wreath to pay homage to the victims of the massacre.

Jallianwala is a huge blot on an otherwise decorated service career of Dyer, often referred to as General Dyer.