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Who is Separatist-turned-Terrorist Altaf Bhat?

SRINAGAR: Two months after Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) booked separatist-turned-terrorist Zafar Akbar Bhat in a case of selling of MBBS seats in Pakistan, his brother Altaf Bhat is booked by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a huge graft case. The FIA has filed a graft case against Altaf and 17 others […]

ED attaches 3 bank accounts of journalist Rana Ayubb in Money Laundering case

NEW DELHI: Tightening its noose around journalist Rana Ayubb, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said that it has attached three bank accounts of hers in connection with a money laundering case. According to ED officials, the Mumbai-based journalist, who is a columnist at US-based Washington Post, allegedly did not utilise the funds that she […]

In UP’s Atrauli, Kalyan Singh’s Wife Stays At His Decrepit Village Home, Wants To See Ram Temple, Not Luxuries

MADAULI (ATRAULI, ALIGARH): Clad in a cheap cotton saree, diminutive Ramwati Devi looks content as she snuggles up on a cot, overlooked by a towering obituary poster remembering her husband and former UP CM Kalyan Singh who had refused to fire at  Kar Sewaks over demolition of Babri mosque in 1992. Devi, who stays at […]

60.17% Polling In UP First Phase, Marginally Lower Than 2017

Lucknow: The voter turn out in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls till 6 pm on Thursday was recorded at 60.17 per cent, less than 2017 assembly polls where 63.5 per cent votes were polled, the Election Commission said. However, the final tally would differ as voting details of certain segments where voting […]

EC Shifts Poll Dates In Manipur; 1st Phase On Feb 28, 2nd Phase On March 5

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday revised the polling dates in Manipur after taking into consideration inputs, last precedents and several other factors. The poll panel in a statement said that the polling in Manipur first phase will now take place on February 28 instead of February 27 and polling of the second phase […]