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The firing by Pakistani troops from across the LoC attracted strong and effective retaliation by the Indian Army, official said.

Rao was not considered for the rank of additional director in November 2016 as well as when a review of this batch took place in April 2018. He had joined the CBI as a joint director in 2016.

According to reports, Nithyananda has fled to a foreign country to escape the law. Some even claim that he has already sought political asylum in Cayman Islands.

Milind Ogle, the deputy chief fire officer of the MIDC area, said the hospital doesn't have the final no-objection certificate for fire compliance.

James Comey spoke after a spurt of anti-FBI tweets from the president in the past week that alleged that the investigative body abused its powers in probing his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and his former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

Seven civilians, including minor boys, were killed in clashes that followed the encounter of three militants in south Kashmir’s Kharpora.

Sarva Darshan began on December 18 around 5.30 am and will last up to midnight of December 19 with a break of less than an hour for Naivedyam.

Terming the arrest as a "major breakthrough", the officer said Mohammad was active in radicalising the youth of the valley and encourage them to join militancy.

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah also sought response from the Odisha government on the plea of journalist Ravi Sharma seeking anticipatory bail and challenging the order of high court dated December 5.

Ansari, a 33-year-old Mumbai resident, was lodged in the Peshawar Central Jail after being sentenced by a military court to three years' imprisonment for possessing a fake Pakistani identity card on December 15, 2015.

The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Mallibai, who passed away at 8:45 am on Monday. An official said that two more deaths were reported on Sunday, taking the death toll to 14.

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said party leaders held a meeting with other functionaries and national general secretary Bhupender Yadav on Sunday to discuss their next course of action.

He also said the electoral defeat of BJP in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh has nothing to do with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The transgender persons, who were on ‘vritham’, the mandatory austerity for visiting the Lord Ayyappa shrine, left for Sabarimala in the wee hours of Sunday, but were stopped at Erumeli police station.

Last year, the Yogi Adityanath government announced the creation of Ayodhya Nagar Nigam. Elections were held last December and Rishikesh Upadhyay of the BJP was sworn in as the first mayor of the city.

Following the judgment, BJP president Amit Shah has sought an apology from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi who, however, stuck to his guns and alleged corruption in the deal. The party also reiterated its demand for a JPC probe.