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The petition was filed by an advocate before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate under different sections of the Indian Penal Code, relating to sedition, imputations, and assertions prejudicial to national-integration and hurting religious feelings.

The scam, as per officials, involves rigging of the online bidding process to ensure particular firms got tenders, including hacking the e-tender portal operated by the then BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.

The officials said the Union Home Ministry has ordered the deployment of 100 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) on July 25 on an 'immediate' basis and 100 more companies are expected to be sent to the Valley.

The Enforcement Directorate tried to call Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath's nephew Ratul Puri on his mobile phone, which was switched off. The agency is now thinking about summoning him again.

A mutual agreement was reached in all the 14 cases between buyers and builder Supertech that were taken up for hearing during the seventh Conciliation Forum of NCR held by the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulation Authority, the officials said.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar told the Bihar Assembly his government will be writing to the Centre to send a team to the state to 'assess the damage' and 'provide assistance as they deem fit'.

Deaths were averted as the power connection in the wire got disconnected as soon as it snapped.

The apex court took on record the affidavits filed by state government and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in which the two said that they were cooperating and working together to combat the disease which has claimed more than 100 deaths.

They were arrested on a complaint filed on July 14, in which a man said he had been duped of over Rs 50,000 by some people who promised to get him a job at the AAI, a senior police officer said.

The incident took place on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday at Nawal Singhana village, 35 km from Betul town, but no arrested has been made so far.

Navlakha has been booked on a slew of charges, including sections under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), an anti-terrorism law.

The Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector from the infiltrating Pakistani troops is also called Operation Vijay, which means victory.

The 520-metre twin tunnel, one east-bound and the other west-bound, is built 30 metres below the riverbed. Commuters will be under the river for only about a minute when the train passes through the tunnel at 80 km per hour.

Twenty-one Indians are still in detention in Iran — three from MT Riah and 18 from British oil tanker Stena Impero that was seized last week by Iran. The Indian Embassy on Thursday got consular access to 18 aboard Impero.

Earlier this month, Army chief Bipin Rawat had said that Pakistan's misadventure will be repelled with a punitive response.

The whole incident, which took place on Wednesday, was caught on CCTV camera and the footage has been submitted to the police along with the complaint from the toll plaza employee.