saleem About 15 kgs of Ganja was today seized by railway police from two people at Marioni railway station in Jorhat district.
Official sources said the two accused were arrested when they disembarked from the Delhi-Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Mail.
They had allegedly brought the contraband from Dimapur in Nagaland and were planning to sell it in Assam, the sources added.
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Guntur MP Rayapati Sambasiva Rao on Sunday said that the Congress High Command was unhappy with the poor performance of party in the recent by-elections.
Home Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy on Sunday said that the Congress party suffered a major defeat in the recent by-elections due to various factors and certain prevailing conditions in the State.
Union Minister of state for Human resources development Daggubati Purandeswari on Sunday stated that the Congress High Command has already focused its attention on revamping the party in the State.
New Delhi, June 24: In an apparent attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his “Prime Minister should have secular credentials” remark, the RSS has batted for Narendra Modi, saying such comments are being made for vote-bank politics and minority appeasement.
Soon after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comments last week that a Hindutva face can become the PM, the Sangh’s mouthpiece Panchajanya sought to know why there is an aversion for Hindutva in a country where 85 per cent of the population is Hindu.
Manesar, June 24: Rescue team consisting of the army, fire brigade , police, revenue and other departments still working to save Mahi. Mahi, a four-year-old girl fell in the borewell at village Kho, Near Manesar, in Gurgaon.
Four-year-old Mahi who fell into a 70-feet deep borewell at Manesar in Haryana four days ago was finally pulled out by soldiers on Sunday afternoon. Mahi was immediately rushed to a hospital in a military ambulance. Locals as well as army officials declined to give details about the
girl’s health condition.
Khalil Ahmed, an alleged aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, has been granted bail by a Delhi court in a 2009 case of his alleged bid to extort money from a businessman here.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav granted bail to Khalil considering that substantial evidence against him has already been recorded. The court released him on bail on a personal bond of Rs 25,000.
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Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday asked the Industries and other departments like Tourism, Information Technology and Communications and Energy to speed up the projects for which proposals were received during the Partnership Summit – 2012.
Governor E S L Narasimhan on Saturday stated that the government benefits should reach the doorsteps of unfortunate women, who lost their husbands.
A day after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy explained the Congress president Sonia Gandhi over the drubbing of Congress party in recent by-elections, now it is the turn of Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana to answer high command over the defeat of party.
In the one-to-one meeting with Sonia Gandhi, PCC president Botsa Satyanayana apart from explaining the reasons for recent failure of party, also submitted a comprehensive report according to the constituency wise over the steps taken to strengthen the party at grass root level.
YSR Congress party president Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday filed a memo in CBI special court, Nampally over his remand.
In the memo, Jagan Mohan Reddy appealed to court to direct the jail authorities to produce him in the court on expiry of his remand on June 25 instead of conducting trial proceedings through video conference.
He appealed to court not to conduct proceedings though video conference and produce him directly in the court.
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The ACB court on Saturday rejected the special class prisoner status petition of T Pattabhirama Rao, the judge who was suspended following bribery allegations in the cash-for-bail case and languished in Cherlapally jail.
The court rejected his petition following objections raised by ACB counsel.
Earlier, Pattabhirama Rao moved petition seeking special class prisoner status in the court on the basis of precarious health condition. However, the ACB counsel objected for this.
The City Crime Station police on Saturday arrested Gowri Shankar Gupta, who duped the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority by invoking the name of realtor major DLF.
Gupta, owner of PVR Malls, absconding since DLF lodged a complaint with detective department of Central Crime Station for deliberately cheating DLF to the tune of Rs 280 crore by inducing DLF to invest in some of the real estate development projects taken up by the GSG Group of Companies.
Earlier, the police issued look out notice for Gupta as the Nampally court refused to grant anticipatory bail to him.
Maulana Abdul Aleem Islahi who was ousted on Sunday last by Maulana Mohammed Naseeruddin from the 25-year old madrassa, Jameatul Banat, in a bitter tus sle for the control over the institution opened his own school for girls in Malakpet.
The new religious school to be called Ma drassa Jameatul Banaat Islahia will begin admissions soon. According to sources since Islahi was forced to quit the madrassa from where his two daughters had been sacked along with a few other teachers earli er, the idea of setting up a new school was floated.
Seeking to end months of acrimony between top IAS and IPS ranks in Andhra Pradesh, the state government on Friday promoted eight IPS officers of the 1987 batch to the rank of Additional Director General of Police from the rank of Inspector General of Police.
While four of the eight officers have been given new postings, the rest were retained in the same posts with an elevation.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi cannot be portrayed as prime ministerial candidate as it is impossible for the BJP to get a majority on its own in Lok Sabha polls, Brajesh Mishra has said.
Mishra, key aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said Modi becoming prime minister depends entirely on BJP getting a majority in Parliament on its own.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today demanded that the Centre should increase quota of Haj pilgrims from the state.
“The Chief Minister has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a request that the quota of UP should be increased and maintained at the last year’s level when 32,532 pilgrims went for Haj,” an official spokesman said here.
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150 kg of ammonium nitrate, brought from West Bengal, was today seized at Chengadenga village in Pakur district, police said.
On a tip-off that the chemical, used for making explosives, sealed in 13 sacks were being transported by a tractor to Pakur from Rajgram in Birbhum district, police intercepted the vehicle and seized the material.
The driver and the helper escaped.
This was the tenth such seizure this year, police said.
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Three narcotic smugglers were arrested with more than 30 kgs of ganja near Sector 58 here, police said today.
The arrested men, who are resident of Bishanpura, have been identified as Kishore, Vijay and Khanjar Rishi.
A police team nabbed the trio last night and seized 13.40 kg of ganja from Kishore, 10.40 kg from Khanjar and 6.70 kg of the contraband from Vijay.
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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today asked the Central government to take positive decisions on Ram Janmabhoomi and river Ganga issues and threatened to launch a stir if it failed to do so by Parliament’s monsoon session.
“If the UPA government does not take positive decisions regarding the Ram Janmabhoomi and river Ganga issues by the monsoon session of Parliament, a massive agitation will be launched,” VHP leaders said here.
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Within days of the Reserve Bank massively increasing the export refinancing limits of banks, State Bank of India today said it will soon bring down interest rates on loans to exporters.
“We will surely cut lending rates to exporters following the RBI enhancing export credit refinance limit to 50 percent in the policy review.
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The Andhra Pradesh is like to move the High Court against the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order setting aside the appointment of V Dinesh Reddy as the Director General of Police (DGP), official sources said here today.
Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday slammed vested interests of repeated attempts to malign and defame him by leveling baseless charges.
Addressing media persons at NTR Trust Bhavan, Naidu said that his opponents are now hoisting a conman and criminal Kola Krishnamohan to throw slur and mud on his political image.
He said Kola Krishna Mohan had tried to con the Telugu Desam by offering a party fund and also wanting a party ticket.
The ACB court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on petition of tainted CBI special court judge T Pattabhirama Rao, who was remanded to judicial custody till July 3 in connection with cash-for bail-case of former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy, seeking `special category status’ in prison to June 22.
In his petition, Pattabhirama Rao’s counsel Ravindra Kumar said that his client was suffering from health related problems including neck and back pain since 2005 and suffered a heart attack also.
Former Congress minister P Shankar Rao on Wednesday demanded that the government immediately replace Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy as the Central Administrative Tribunal set aside his appointment.
Talking to media persons at Assembly premises, Shankar Rao stated that the government should follow the guidelines issued by the CAT in the appointment of the DGP.
He said that the government should fill the DGP post afresh based on the seniority of IPS officers.