Jaipur, A notification was issued here on Monday for election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Rajasthan. The last date for filing of nomination papers is March 19. Scrutiny will take place on March 20 and nominations can be withdrawn by March 22, Returning Officer, Krishna Murari Gupta said. Polling, if required, will take place on March 30, he said. The polling is necessitated as Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Narendra Budania (both Congress) and BJP's Ram Das Agarwal are due to complete their terms as RS members from Rajasthan. ...
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NEW DELHI: Anna Hazare's prescription of public flogging of alcoholics has outraged the political class with CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta calling the Gandhian "mad". Reacting to news reports from Hazare's village Ralegan Siddhi stating that alcoholics should be shamed publically, Dasgupta said, "He is mad. I do not drink but that does not mean those who do should be treated like this. It is Taliban mindset. Anna is moving away from his core work." Congress, at the receiving hand of Hazare's fight against corruption, also lost no opportunity in condemning his directive. Party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said, "Such mindset would only end up weakening democracy. Provoking anyone to take law into one's own hand is unconstitutional and against the democratic principles," he said. RJD leader Lalu Prasad said, "Anna is a Gandhian but this is no way to deal with those who drink." BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said, "Everyone has a right to express his views. But the country can run only on the basis of constitutional provisions." ...
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Ludhiana, February 5 (Doaba News Service)- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), arrested two Nigerian nationals and seized 212 gm cocaine, worth Rs 3 crore in the international market, following a raid in Mohali. The accused are Ndidi Evans Peter and Monye Alexander, alias Ben Daniel Alex, and were arrested under the NDPS Act. Rajiv Gupta, a DRI official, said the accused were nabbed following a tip-off. The DRI received information that Monye was operating his drug trade from Mohali. A raid was conducted on the residential premises of Monye Alexander and 212gm of white powder, suspected to be drugs, was recovered. The contraband has been sent to chemical examination. The official said the contraband was kept in a hydraulic door spring along with other mechanical tools, which was to be sent abroad through a courier. The DRI officials are suspecting the involvement of the duo behind the attempt of smuggling of 310 gm of heroin, also kept in a similar hydraulic door spring. The drugs were smuggled in a parcel on January 19 and were sent by air to Milano, Italy. Sources said the DRI received information that the parcel had contained drugs in it. It was returned to India ...
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Ropar, December 30 (DNS)- The Ropar police arrested five persons and recovered 44 tonne of iron bars stolen from the Kiratpur Sahib area on December 15. SSP LK Yadav stated that all five accused had taken the truck forcibly from Gurmukh Singh, a resident of Dhahe village in Nurpur Bedi. In his complaint to the police, Gurmukh had alleged that his truck contained around 44 tonne of iron bars. Acting on a secret information, the police arrested Veeru Kumar Gupta, a native of Bihar, Narinder Singh from Chhoti Jhakkian Bharatgarh village, Hasan Sardar, alias Vicky, Liaqat Ali, alias Babbu, and Jatinder Singh all three from Bharatgarh. Two of the accused are absconding. The police has also recovered the truck and iron rods from their possession. The accused revealed that they had sold the stolen iron bars to some industry in the Golthai industrial area on the Punjab-Himachal Pradesh border near Nangal. The gang had fixed a deal at around Rs 16 lakh and had already taken Rs 2.60 lakh. The iron rods were further fraudulently sold to Baba Gurjant Singh of Manji Sahib Gurdwara, Bharatgarh. He was going to use it in building some parts of the gurdwara. The police have registered a case ...
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