To increase the existing line capacity, smoothen train operations, reduce congestion and facilitate ease of travelling and transportation, the doubling of Railway tracks in important sections is taken into consideration by the Ministry of Railways.
After Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead on Thursday by unidentified assailants in Mumbai, party leader Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday about the reported detroriation of law and order situation in Maharashtra.
In a shocking incident in the Sangaria region of Hanumangarh district, a young man was brutally beaten to death in the village of Jandwala Sikhan in a dispute over a bike collision involving him and the assailants.
Guwahati city police on Friday recovered 20 live cattle carried inside two vehicles during a checkpoint at the Jorabat Link Road near Guwahati. Four people were arrested on the spot for smuggling the cattle.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday alleged a goon rule in Maharashtra after party leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead on Thursday by unidentified assailants in Mumbai.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has moved an adjournment motion in Lok Sabha demanding a discussion on the Assam government's spending on air travel for state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Lower House on Friday.
The AAP has already announced three candidates in Assam and one in Gujarat. The PAC is the party's highest decision-making body and is headed by AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state government will file police cases against those responsible for irregularities in providing school uniforms and mid-day meals to students.
Amid the Opposition fury over the killing of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalka in full public glare in Mumbai's Dahisar, the Crime Branch on Friday claimed a rivalry between the victim and his assailant.
The police said that the arrests came as part of a "targeted operational activity" with the aim of thwarting the activities of a criminal assassination squad in Ashdod.