India

Aligarh/Lucknow (UP), Feb 22 (PTI) The police have dropped sedition charges slapped against 14 Aligarh Muslim University after the recent protests on the campus, even as SP leader Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP government of having used the legal provision as a weapon .

The students were booked for sedition after Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) district president Mukesh Lodhi alleged he was assaulted by some students who chanted pro-Pakistan slogans, police said.

New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) The CBI has issued a notice barring foreign travel of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and MD of the Videocon Group Venugopal Dhoot, accused in a corruption case, officials said here Friday.

The move to issue a look out notice was taken nearly a week after a case was registered against Chanda Kochhar, Deepak and Dhoot to ensure that none of these people, alleged to be involved in corruption in clearing loans worth Rs 1,875 crore to the Videocon Group, were able to leave the country, the officials said.

Mumbai, Feb 22 (PTI) The Congress said Friday that there was no place for the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in the proposed alliance of opposition parties for Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.

This has been conveyed to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), said state Congress chief Ashok Chavan.

Patna, Feb 22 (PTI) Top NDA leaders here Friday flagged off a Rath Yatra to galvanize public support from every nook and corner of Bihar for the ruling coalitions rally next week where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to share the stage with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

Pune, Feb 22 (PTI) In yet another incident of assault on Kashmiris after the Pulwama terror attack, a 24-year-old journalist from Jammu and Kashmir was beaten up here.

The local police, who earlier dubbed it as an incident of road rage, registered a case against the two suspected assailants Friday evening and arrested one of them.

New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) Three people, including two women, suspected to be close aides of the Neeraj Bawana gang were arrested and police seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from outer north district's Bawana area, an official said Friday.

The accused were identified as Virender, Nirmala and Kirti, all residents of Sultanpur Dabas village, he said.

New Delhi, Feb 22 (PTI) The Centre late Friday night asked all states to ensure security of people belonging to Jammu and Kashmir amid reports that some of them were attacked in different parts of the country in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack.

This was conveyed by the Home Ministry in an advisory to all states following a directive of the Supreme Court, which took up a petition in this regard.

KANPUR: There was confusion at the paucity of oxygen at the emergency block of Hallet Hospital on Thursday. The attendants were worried at this odd situation for the patients’ gulp of air started reducing at the intensive care unit. It was later known that the low pressure in the supply of the oxygen. It arose because of the decreasing quantity of the oxygen level in the cylinders.

22 Feb 2019; DW: India's infrastructure minister, Nitin Gadkari, announced on Twitter on Thursday that his country had "decided to stop our share of water which used to flow to Pakistan."

The announcement came as tensions between India and neighboring Pakistan continued to soar in the wake of a deadly terror attack in the disputed Kashmir region last Thursday.

India blames Pakistan for the attack, which killed 40 paramilitary soldiers, whereas Pakistan denies any involvement.

New Delhi, February 21 : The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy, in yet another outrageous statement, has endorsed a call for boycott of Kashmir and Kashmiris in the wake of the Pulwama tragedy.  This comes at a time when Kashmiris, particularly students, in various parts of the country are being attacked, tormented and forced to leave.