Advocate Charanpal Singh Bagri Saturday filed a PIL claiming that the HPSC, through a recent announcement, has prohibited the candidates from carrying any religious articles inside the examination centre. The Chief Justice directed to constitute a bench to take up the PIL.

The Ropar district administration had initiated a probe into how Balwinder managed to get an arms licence on which he subsequently purchased a .32 bore revolver that was used in the crime.

North Maharashtra with six seats and Vidarbha with 10 are considered to be the BJP’s bastions. According to party sources, any attempt by the “disgruntled” leaders, if left unattended, could be exploited by the NCP.

The CPI(M) has a strong base in Solapur. BJP’s Jaisiddheshwar Mahaswamiji, Congress’s Sushil Kumar Shinde and Ambedkar are in the fray from the constituency. Ambedkar has tied up with the AIMIM to float the BVA, which will contest all the 48 seats in the state.

The party also released a list of star campaigners which include names of Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, and Rajnath Singh. State ministers, including Chandrakant Patil, Vinod Tawdeamong others, will also hold public meetings.

The 89-year-old leader has served as the Nandurbar MP nine consecutive terms but had failed to retain the seat in the 2014 polls. Gavit had been insisting that the party give the ticket to his son Bharat Gavit, but the leadership chose K C Padvi instead.

Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice N M Jamdar were hearing a petition filed by activist Satish Gaikwad, seeking stay on the release of the movie and directions to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to remove the movie’s trailer from all social media.

The Mumbai North constituency — comprising Malad West, Kandivali East, Charkop, Magathane, Borivali and Dahisar — was initially offered to Congress leader and former MP from the seat Sanjay Nirupam, who declined.

Among Maratha voters in Aurangabad, there is some resentment against Khaire for not actively supporting their cause. Aurangabad city witnessed the worst rioting when a bandh called by protesting Marathas turned violent in August 2018.

On Friday, India summoned Pakistan’s deputy high commissioner amid concerns over the presence of leading Khalistani separatist Gopal Singh Chawla, a close aide of terrorist Hafiz Saeed, in a 10-member committee appointed by Pakistan on the Kartarpur Corridor, official sources said.

Stating that the incident has demoralised the staff, the SDM also demanded registration of FIR against the farmers and their arrest for illegally confining him, Tehsildaar Harminder Singh Hundal and 30 other staff members on March 25-26.

In 2016, the Election Commission of India (ECI) introduced the Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot and a web portal on which service personnel are required to register themselves and download and print ballots using one-time passwords.

Facebook, Google and YouTube informed the court that to combat foreign interference, only authorised advertisers will be allowed to purchase political ads during the elections. The counsel for Twitter said that they will not accept any foreign payments for the advertisements.

Akali Dal has been sending feelers that they would field former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal from Ferozepur and his Union Minister wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal from Bathinda.

Expressing “shock” over the high court’s observations questioning the CM, Tawde said: “The High Court should give their observations in writing. It will then bring greater clarity and enable government to respond.”

The 15 seats where the Sena will field its candidates are Calcutta South, Dum Dum, Basirhat, Barasat, Barrackpore, Jadavpur, Midnapore, Contai, Birbhum, Bolpur, Bankura, Bishnupur, Purulia, Murshidabad and Malda North.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Gen Singh said that repeated attempts were being made by Khaira to ensure that he stood down in favour of Khalra, who is the candidate of Punjab Democratic Alliance (PDA).

The CFSL report was prepared on December 11, 2018, but submitted in court earlier this month, stated that the 12 samples, weighing between 4.6 and 5.8 grams, had tested positive for sodium glutamate and negative for mephedrone and other narcotic substances.

Sukh Ram, along with Aashray, and son Anil Sharma who is currently the Multi-Purpose Projects and Power Minister in the Jai Ram Thakur government, had defected to the BJP ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls.

The MSRDC had subsequently appointed a contractor. However, work could not take off because of lack of required bearings that were to be replaced. The no objection certificate from the traffic department was also pending, officials added.

Residents had been campaigning against the BMC’s move for the last two years, during which, they met politicians across all party. They had also met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who had ordered the BMC commissioner to hear local residents’ demands before planning a revamp.

While the accused had claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case, prosecutor Mangesh Arote had submitted before the court that evidence, including statements of witnesses, were yet to be recorded and if the accused was granted anticipatory bail, he could tamper with it.

As Yadav ignored them, 19-year-old Mohammad Sadiq Shaikh tried to pull the packet out of his hands. When he resisted, Shaikh allegedly slashed Yadav on the face and hands with a knife and stabbed him in the stomach. The duo then fled with the packet, Sawant said.

After Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil, a former Rajya Sabha member quit the NCP and joined the BJP, it was widely believed that he did so as he wanted to contest from Madha. The NCP had refused to field him as the party was in favour of renominating Vijaysinh.