Death row: High Court seeks records of mercy petitions

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Taking up a petition on Friday, Justice Rameshwar Malik of the HC ordered officials of the Punjab government to produce the entire record pertaining to the case, including the grounds on which the mercy petitions of Hoshiarpur residents Jasbir Singh alias Jassa and Vikram Singh alias Vicky were rejected ... She also cited Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's case in which his death sentence was converted into life....

Khaira, Channi in AAP's third list of 29

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Former Congress leaders Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Charanjit Singh Channi, journalist-turned-politician Kanwar Sandhu, and Arjuna awardee Olympian wrestler Kartar Singh were named by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its third list of 29 candidates for the Punjab elections announced on Friday ... There are also engineering graduates including Nazar Singh Manshahia (BTech, Civil) from Mansa and Meet Hayer BE (Mechanical)....

Won’t cremate Sikh activist till accused are held: Protesters

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
A day after the death of Sikh activist Joga Singh Khalistani at the Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) here on Thursday, members of different Sikh radical groups, including Shiromani Akali Dal (A) have refused to cremate his body until the main accused are arrested ... SAD (A) district president Jaswant Singh Cheema said the cremation would be held only after the main accused were arrested....

Swati Singh to head BJP’s U.P. women’s wing

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Swati Singh, wife of the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Daya Shankar Singh, who had used the analogy of prostitution while targeting the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, was on Friday nominated as the head of the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh women’s wing ... Singh’s case in a bid to neutralise criticism over Mr. Singh’s remarks on Ms ... Singh....

The many shades of love

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Every once in a while comes a film that isn’t just another slice-of-life, coming-of-age story ... Set in Tadepalli, the story begins in 2000 when an overtly gawky Vikram (Chaitanya) is besotted with the pretty girl of the locality, Suma (Anupama Parameshwaran in a brief, well-enacted part) ... Six years later, we see Vikram as a rugged college student flaunting his muscle power ... The Malar equivalent here is Sithara (Shruti Haasan) ... ....

Punjab govt's speeding publicity van kills 2 youths in Patiala

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
While 22-year-old Gurtej Singh belongs to Kalajhar in Sangrur, Harkirat Singh is from Allowal in Patiala. The police have registered the case on the statement of the deceased's friend Pushpinder Singh ... Photos of Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal are pasted on the vans....

Ranji Trophy: MS Dhoni fan Kaushal steals the show

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Jharkhand's Kaushal Singh guided the ball to silly mid-off ... Off came the helmet, the bat pointed towards the dressing room where his idol Mahendra Singh Dhoni was sitting ... He came in to bat when his team was struggling at 108-5 and shared two crucial partnerships -with Anand Singh (24) and Shahbaz Nadeem (25) ... Maharashtra 210 in 71.1ovs vs Jharkhand 293/7 in 99 ovs (Kaushal Singh 121*, Virat Singh 46; Anupam Sanklecha 3/60); At Vizag....

Paddy procurement: Amarinder to camp in border areas to help farmers

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Friday said he would camp in border areas from October 10 to ensure that the farmers, who had been evacuated amid growing Indo-Pak tension, were able to sell their produce without any hassle ... Singh accused the Badal government of pushing the poor farmers of the State to the brink of suicide after failing to to ensure timely procurement of paddy....

India to seal border with Pak by 2018

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
The decisions were taken at a review meeting chaired by union home minister Rajnath Singh at Jaisalmer on Friday ."We have set up a target of fully sealing the Indo-Pakistan border by December 2018. The action plan prepared is fully time bound and its implementation will be monitored periodically--monthly and quarterly ," Singh told reporters after the meeting ... Singh said that the states have been told to act on the BSF complaints....

Union home minister Rajnath Singh visits outposts, motivates soldiers

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday visited many border outposts of BSF in Shahgarh Bulj area and took stock of security arrangements ... Officers apprised Singh about the fencing getting buried under sand dunes or hanging in the air due to shifting sand dunes. Meghwal informed Singh about plan to make the fencing effective....

ACB summons Dy CM

Edit The Hindu 08 Oct 2016
Maliwal on her counter complaint against the DCW’s former chief Barkha Shukla Singh ... Singh. On September 21, Ms ... A few days later, Ms ... Singh and Kiran Walia — between 2007 and 2015. ....

2 snipers of Raju Theth gang arrested in city

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
In September 2014, Raju Theth's rival and fugitive criminal Anandpal Singh was lodged in Bikaner Central Jail. Teth and his associates decided to eliminate Anandpal Singh and hired assailants to kill Singh. The bloodbath that followed inside the prisons saw Singh'a accomplice Balbir Banuda being shot dead by a fellow inmate by a country made revolver....

Navjot Singh Sidhu in tie-up talks with Cong: Pargat

Edit The Times of India 08 Oct 2016
Suspended Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Pargat Singh on Friday disclosed that Awaaz-e-Punjab leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was in touch with the Congress for a possible tie-up ahead of Punjab elections ... Sources also said cricketers and former Congress MP Mohammad Azharuddin and Bishan Singh Bedi were being approached to help party rope in Sidhu....
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