At the state BJP executive meeting held at Goregaon in Mumbai, Fadnavis unveiled the poll roadmap stressing on micro-planning and exhorting the cadre to focus efforts across all 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra.

The NIA alleges Yasin Malik got Rs 15 lakh from Watali on April 7, 2015, and that some of the money was used to fuel the unrest in the Valley after the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in 2016.

While local women make up a sizeable section of Kerala’s construction labourer base, most do lowly jobs due to lack of training and experience. Kudumbashree aims to train women in all aspects of construction to guide them towards leadership positions.

Noted lawyer and former Janata Dal MP Jagdeep Dhankhar has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal, replacing Keshari Nath Tripathi. Another senior BJP leader, Ramesh Bais, has been appointed Tripura Governor.

Sheila Dikshit loved the struggle, the challenge of transforming the city she grew up in her dharnas and protests. The workers of the party were full of fresh enthusiasm. Local leaders were cynical in their cautious response to her, writes Pawan Khera.

ISRO Chandrayaan 2 moon mission: After its original launch, Chandrayaan-2 was supposed to spend 17 days in Earth orbit, and another 28 days in lunar orbit, before the lander and rover modules were supposed to separate from the main spacecraft and prepare for landing on September 6.

Despite the accusations of BJP leaders buying their MLAs, the BJP maintained stoic silence in the House, refusing to create a situation where MLAs could be suspended for unruly behaviour ahead of the trust vote, thus reducing its numbers.

Police have so far arrested 29 people and are searching for 17 others. “The prime accused, Yagya Dutt, has been arrested. If needed, we will seek warrants against those missing,” said the SP.

With Delhi emerging as the epicentre of the anti-UPA establishment, Dikshit was the first to feel the shock-waves in the 2013 assembly elections before the Congress was drummed out of power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. And in 2015, the Congress won none of Delhi’s 70 seats.

At least 65 people were killed in the 2013 riots, all these cases were registered and investigation began when the Akhilesh Yadav government was in power, the trial spanned both his and the current BJP government.

From the time Yagya Dutt and 10 others of his family bought 145 bighas of the disputed land from the wife and daughter of a retired Bihar cadre IAS officer (the daughter is also married to an IAS officer) in 2017, they had been trying to take possession of the land from the Gond tillers.

These revelations are at the heart of a scathing indictment of top agencies in a draft forensic report on alleged wrongdoing as IL&FS slipped into default.

Top intelligence sources told The Indian Express that their inputs suggest shutting down of 20 terror camps from where Pakistan was sending militants across to Kashmir.

While the Opposition BJP insisted the trust be completed Friday, the Speaker stated that the debate on the trust vote should conclude by July 22 and underscored that the Chief Minister must face the trust vote Monday.

The move comes after an illegal extension of a dilapidated cessed property in Dongri collapsed on July 16, leaving 13 people dead and at least nine injured. The state government was attacked for its failure to fast-track redevelopment of rickety buildings.

The issue was red-flagged by officials of RTO office in Vastral, Ahmedabad, after backlogs of 120 driving licence applications were found cleared in their system without following proper procedure and applicants were provided their licences via speed post.

Hostile witnesses, missing evidence — court records of the 10 murder cases show glaring gaps in prosecution

Nearly twenty years after their first-born, Captain Vijayant Thapar, was shot in the head on June 29, 1999 during the Kargil War’s Knoll assault, the Thapars still feel the “vacuum” of his loss.

Eyewitnesses and families of victims told The Indian Express that it was the third attempt by the pradhan to forcibly take possession of the land, which he had bought from a society two years ago.

Sources confirmed that Brickwork Ratings — an agency promoted by Canara Bank — allegedly gave favourable ratings to debt instruments of IL&FS group companies as its founder director D. Ravishankar allegedly received IL&FS Group’s hospitality in Spain along with his family.

BJP protests by spending night in House, trust debate adjourned

The week-long delay will not impact the date of landing of the spacecraft on the moon’s surface. The lander and rover modules will land on September 6, as scheduled, ISRO officials said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who as Foreign Secretary had played a key role in taking the matter to the ICJ, made a statement in both Houses of Parliament where he also asked Pakistan to “release and repatriate Jadhav forthwith”.

The video, showing a person in a room beating children with a foot ruler and kicking them, claimed that the assaulter was a teacher of RM&VM School in Valsad.