MIM to contest out of AP too: Akbaruddin
Hyderabad: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) plans to expand its base outside Andhra Pradesh by contesting elections in other States, announced its leader Akbaruddin Owaisi. The 43-year-old Owaisi, a member of the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly, told a massive public meeting here on Saturday night that the MIM would field candidates in the next Assembly elections in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and other States. This was Akbaruddin’s first public appearance since his release from jail in February this year in a hate speech case. The legislator had spent 40 days in Adilabad jail.
Bomb Blast inside bus in Jalpiaguri, 6 hurt
f Six passengers were on Sunday injured when a bomb exploded inside a bus in Jalpaiguri district. Explosion took place when the bus had made a halt for lunch and most of the passengers were out for lunch.
The passenger bus was plying between Thimpu and Phutsheling, which is close to India-Bhutan border.
2 suspects picked up for Bodh Gaya blasts
Darbhanga: Police have picked up two persons as suspects of Bodh Gaya blasts from Brahmapura village in Madhubani district and handed them over to a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team for questioning. “Complying to a NIA notice, a Darbhanga police team picked up Md Farooq and Shashi Ranjan Sahu two days ago and handed them over the same day to the agency probing the Bodh Gaya blasts for their interrogation,” Superintendent of Police Upendra Kumar Sharma said.
Curfew relaxed in violence-hit Kishtwar
Kishtwar: Curfew was relaxed on Sunday morning in violence-hit Kishtwar district, even as a ministerial team reviewed the security situation there and held a meeting with members from two communities to ease tension. “...curfew was further relaxed from 10 am and it was on till 1 pm. There were no reports of any untoward incident from anywhere in the district during last 24 hours,” Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Shantmanu said.
Netaji’s kin observe ‘Declassification Day’
Kolkata: Scores of admirers of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Sunday visited Japan’s Renkoji Temple to mourn his “death anniversary”, but his family in Kolkata has decided to observe “Declassification Day” from this year demanding that all the secret files related to his death be made public. Seeking declassification of all the secret files and documents related to the mystery about the fate of the nationalist leader, who went missing in 1945, the
family has started observing August 18 as “Declassification Day” from this year.