At the press conference, Barne said that he had withdrawn all the allegations he made against the BJP and its leaders during the last three-four years.

Wilson, a Delhi-based activist, was arrested along with four others, on June 6 last year in connection with a case registered against the organisation of Elgaar Parishad, an evening event, in Pune on December 31, 2017.

Three of the candidates failed to qualify as their nomination forms were declared invalid. Out of the remaining 43 candidates, 12 withdrew on the last day of withdrawal on Monday.

Sitting NCP MP Supriya Sule, fighting to retain her seat for the third time, is pitted against BJP’s Kanchan Kul.

Kirpal shared another successful organ transplant story. At Fortis Hospital, Chennai, where Kirpal underwent the heart transplant in October last year, a 21-year-old man who suffered from heart and lung failure was admitted. Kirpal, through her foundation, paid a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the man’s operation.

Pune-based paediatrician Dr Rajeev Joshi has been nominated the new president of the Indian Association for Medical Informatics (IAMI) - the oldest and largest society of medical informatics in the country.

The convention was launched by former Shiv Sena leader late Bal Thackeray, who was also a cartoonist. Over the years, cartoon exhibitions have been organised in Pune, Nanded, Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur and other cities of Maharashtra by Cartoonists Combine.

Grape growers had reported a bumper crop this year due to the absence of unseasonal rains and hailstorms. The long dry and extended winter has ensured more availability and more produce for export markets.

“They (the NCP) have been in power despite not having much strength in the state. It was not only the BJP, but also the Congress which was angry with the NCP,” Patil claimed.

The CID, so far, has arrested 10 alleged racketeers and 23 serving government servants, reportedly recruited through the racket, in connection with the case. The arrested officials include education officers, tribal development officers, clerks, among others.

VK Saraswat, former chief of Defence and Research Organisation (DRDO) and a member at NITI Ayog, said that Indian scientists have for long adopted the “additive and repetitive” approach while undertaking researches, which are mostly restricted to the basic sciences.

There are 80 BJP and five Shiv Sena corporators in the industrial city and apparently most of them have received a “personal call” from Ajit Pawar urging them to “extend help” to his son, BJP leaders told The Indian Express.

“The Bagh was not like this back in 1919. It was not the way it it looks today. Everything changes with time, but Jallianwala Bagh carries great historical value and it should not have changed just for the sake of change...”

The CID, so far, has arrested 10 alleged racketeers and 23 serving government servants, reportedly recruited through the racket, in connection with the case.

Harpal Singh, who has rented out a building to Father Anthony from where he runs his company’s office, also punched a hole in the police theory. He said they were picked up from the Partapura building and not from Doraha as claimed by the Khanna police.

In just over 10 years, priests under the Diocese of Jalandhar have set up 15 private businesses. Their annual turnover: Rs 50 to 60 crore, finds out The Indian Express.

While Randhawa was talking to Kay Pee, Congress MLA from Jalandhar Cantt, Pargat Singh, also reached there. It is learnt that both the leaders have suggested Kay Pee not to join the Shiromani Akali Dal.

The 180-metre stretch of narrow road lies forgotten today with even some people living on its periphery not knowing about the lane, or how it got its name, or how it shaped history of Punjab and India.

Though the chief electoral officer has already taken four meetings with political parties of Punjab, this one will be a training for the candidates and the prospective ones. They need to give their names by Monday in the district public relations offices of every district.

With education and knowledge knowing no boundaries, a government primary school in village Sadda Singh Wala of Mansa district in Punjab has established a mathematics park for students in Savitribai Phule's memory with her life-size statue installed in it.

Taking charge as the new chief of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Pune branch, DR SANJAY PATIL talks to The Indian Express about Ayushman Bharat and other plans of the association

By the end of March, sugar mills in the state had reported cane dues of over Rs 4,600 crore, the highest amount the mills have ever owed to farmers. As the crushing season enters its last leg, the central government and the sugar mills are still trying to figure out how to pay cane farmers their dues.

Meet the social media strategists including the ‘troll army’ for the candidates or prospective candidates of Lok Sabha elections in Chandigarh.

All these years, the family didn’t purchase a television set because they wanted the children to focus on their studies. It was only six months back that Yadav bought a TV, that too for his wife. Priti attributes her success to perseverance and hard work.