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The Odisha police on Sunday arrested a BJD councillor in connection with the violence in the town over alleged abusive remarks against Hindu deities on social media, even as night curfew remained in force.

In her meeting with Gen Rawat, the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister had raised the issue of the video that has now gone viral on social media.

The fire broke out on Friday morning in Mount Abu close to the famous sunset and honeymoon point prompting the district administration to rope in one suitably modified IAF MI-17VS helicopter.

National Aviators Guild (NAG), union of Jet Airways pilots, on Saturday asked its members not to fly with expat (foreign) pilots from May 1, 2017.

Thousands of tourists from within Rajasthan, the neighbouring Gujarat and other parts of the country visit the noted destination during summers and the incident has scared the tourist there.

The police has stumbled upon huge piles of demonetised Rs 500 and 1000 notes at the office and residence of a former corporator here while conducting searches at his premises in a kidnapping case.

Police had registered a case against BJP MLA from Sardhana Som and more than two hundred other people who had liked the video under various sections of the IPC and also section 66 of the Information Technology act here on September 2, 2013.

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Rejecting Indian accusation of unfair trail, Aziz said that the first FIR against was lodged on April 8, 2016 by police's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.

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A special court to hear cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) here issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Thursday in connection with a money laundering case.

Also, the Jamat leader said that the organisation will bear the wedding expenditure of the two kids of Pehlu Khan and provide for the treatment for people injured during violence by cow vigilantes.

Over 500 shanties were gutted on Wednesday in a major fire that broke out in a Delhi slum, a fire officer said. No casualties were reported from the incident.

"We have received the notice issued to AAP'a National Convenor today to vacate the office. This is truly frustrating as AAP is being singled out despite being a state party with an over-whelming majority," he said.

"Readers of the newspaper that day could not fail to miss the article", John Kelly told the court. "The article included false and defamatory claims about the claimant which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model.

A man accused of massacring his family told the police that he did it to perform astral projection, a ritual which e claimed would him to communicate with souls of dead people.