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The shooting of a Hollywood movie at Lucknow University took an ugly turn on Wednesday after an expelled student along with his supporters created ruckus on the campus and allegedly assaulted chief proctor Pawan Agarwal.

Four members of a notorious gang were held with three illegal firearms from the Manoharpura area near Jaipur Wednesday.The Jaipur (rural) police said that one of the four accused even fired at the police team. The police also responded and fired at the gang and managed to arrest them.

The Motor Acci- dent Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded a com- pensation of Rs 27.5 lakh to the next of kin of a 40-year-old man who died in a hit-and-run accident in Sohna in 2020.

Connoisseurs of classical music in Kolkata were in for a treat at the annual music conference, Sangeet Sammelan 2014.

Indian Railways veterans Ashok Shandilya and Shyam Jagtiani progressed to the final qualifying round along with eight other cueists in the National Snooker Championship.

The agency also searched the south Delhi office and residence of Wasim Ahmed Dehlvi — owner of Zoom, a firm that supplies TV production equipment. Zoom provided services during the Games too.

Senior advocate Arunava Ghosh on Wednesday was elected as the new president of Calcutta High Court Bar Association.

Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred 20 IPS officers including three director generals, and removed police chiefs of Jaunpur and Kanpur Dehat.

A crime branch team arrested a 38-year-old man allegedly for supplying and using counterfeit Indian currency.

Two persons were killed and three others injured when the SUV in which they were travelling rammed into a tree near Barhar Kala village under Manda police station on early Wednesday.

“Hyderabad appears to be a dirty city. Filth is floating everywhere,” commented Chief Justice Madan B Lokur while hearing a writ petition on the mosquito menace in the city.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the CBI’s plea for awarding three “consecutive life sentences” to a Pakistani Hizbul Mujahideen operative convicted for a bomb blast in Jammu in 1995 which claimed eight lives, and awarded life sentence to him saying “he has just one life”.

QADIAN (Gurdaspur): Fundamentalists in Pakistan are suppressing not only the minorities but also the Ahmadiya Muslims to assert their power, was the collective view at the 110th annual convention of Ahmadiya Muslims, that concluded here on Friday.

Intensifying their drive against drugs, Dibrugarh Police carried out a raid at Kankan Nagar area on Friday night and seized 19.33 grams of heroin from a rented house.

No, you cannot wear those spectacles, not if you are getting snapped for a US visa application.

The Sakinaka police on Wednesday arrested four men for sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman for over two hours. They later left her on the road, after threatening her.

PATNA: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be campaigning for Congress in the third phase of the Bihar assembly elections due on February 23.

The blasts took place in the stadium near the dais where the then J&K governor KV Krishna Rao was addressing a gathering of about 40,000 people including high dignitaries, leaders of political parties and government officers.

Security forces scored a major success on Tuesday, killing Jaish-e-Muhammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar's nephew, Talha Rasheed, along with Pakistani national Mehmood Bhai and local JeM cadre Wasim Ahmed Ganai, in Pulwama's Aglar village.

One person was stabbed at Bunder and another person sustained injuries while allegedly fleeing from his attackers at Bajpe on Sunday night.

NEW DELHI: Congress has hurled back at BJP on the charge of accommodating 'tainted' ministers during the six-year NDA rule and has asked for an explanation of the presence of L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharati in the previous Vajpayee government.

In poll-bound Bihar where caste consciousness has reached its crescendo, Darbhanga (urban) assembly seat is also witnessing an interesting fight along caste lines. In this heart of Mithilanchal which has produced a galaxy of littérateurs, including famous Maithili poet Vidyapati and Persian scholar Mulla Abdul Hassan, two Marwaris are slugging it out.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sacked UP Pollution Control Board chairman Javed Abdi and removed its secretary JS Yadav. Although no official reason was cited for the sudden move, sources say that the chief minister was unhappy about corruption charges leveled against the two.

Father of the minor girl who has accused godman Asaram Bapu of rape sat on fast unto death in Shahajahanpur on Saturday, while the Uttar Pradesh Police upgraded security cover provided to the family.