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BJP fields Sushma, Rudy, Shahnawaz

March 14, 2014

New Delhi, Mar 14: The BJP on Thursday announced its third list of candidates for nine states for the April-May Lok Sabha elections.

The list of 100 candidates included prominent leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Sushma__HussainThe party, however, decided to delay announcement of candidates from Uttar Pradesh owing to lack of unanimity on Varanasi and Lucknow constituencies from where Modi and president Rajnath Singh are expected to contest.

The BJP has also decided to give electoral space to children of two leaders, Yashwant Sinha and the late Pramod Mahajan. With former finance minister Sinha deciding not to contest elections, the party has given the ticket to his son Jayant Sinha to contest from his father’s Hazaribagh constituency in Jharkhand. Late Pramod Mahajan’s daughter Poonam Mahajan has been pitched against sitting Congress MP Priya Dutt from Mumbai North-Central constituency.

The 19-member central election committee (CEC) headed by president Rajnath Singh cleared the names of 100 candidates–Bihar (25), MP (24), Karnataka (5), Assam (6), Jharkhand (13), Kerala (14), Maharashtra (2), West Bengal (7) and Lakshwadeep (1), said BJP leader Ananth Kumar.

The CEC will meet again on Saturday and immediately after Holi to decide on the remaining candidates. Prior to the meeting, the parliamentary board decided not to merge the BSR Congress with the BJP, given strong opposition from senior leader Sushma Swaraj.

Due to electoral compulsions, the BJP has opted for a safer route by allowing BSR party founder B Sriramulu back into the saffron fold as he is not facing any case.

Party sources said that he may join the BJP on Friday and will be given the ticket to contest from Bellary. The party top brass also could not take a call on two other seats-Bidar and Hassan–both in Karnataka, due to strong differences against the proposed candidates.

The party, however, has accommodated former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa’s close confidante Shoba Karandlaje from Udupi-Chikmagalur and Basavaraju from Tumkur.

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March 2,2020

New Delhi, Mar 2: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a curative petition filed by convict Pawan Kumar Gupta who was sentenced to death in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.

A five-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that no case is made out for re-examining the conviction and the punishment of the convict.

Other members of the bench were justices Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan.

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March 19,2020

Attari, Mar 19: At least 29 Indians, who had gone to Dubai to watch a cricket match which was called off later, on Wednesday night returned to India through the land transit route of Attari-Wagah border here.

Earlier, when they entered India after being cleared by the Pakistan Immigration Authority, they were detained at Attari border, as they were not having requisite permission on their passport to return to India through Pakistan.

According to officials, they had earlier flown to Dubai from New Delhi to watch a Pakistan League Cricket match there.

The match, however, was aborted and they decided to return India via Pakistan. They took a flight to Pakistan and after landing there, they took land route to reach Attari-Wagah border.

All were cleared by Indian immigration authority after being allowed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Amritsar Civil Surgeon Dr Prabdeep Kaur Johal said that by 9.30 PM all the Indian nationals were not handed over to the medical team for checkup.

She said if anyone of them are found with any symptoms of the virus, they would be admitted to Amritsar Government Hospital or else they would be allowed to continue their journey to Delhi or elsewhere.

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May 27,2020

New Delhi, May 27: With 6,387 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India's count of COVID-19 rose to 1,51,767 on Wednesday, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

170 people have also died in the last 24 hours due to the infection.

Currently, there are 83,004 active cases while 64,425 COVID-19 positive patients have been cured/discharged and one has migrated. So far, a total of 4,337 deaths have taken place across the country.

Among all states, Maharashtra has the highest number of COVID-19 cases with 54,758. Tamil Nadu has 17,728 cases with Gujarat at 14,821 cases. The national capital has 14,465 reported cases of coronavirus.

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