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Over 75,000 police personnel have been mobilised as part of the security arrangements for the October 21 Haryana Assembly election, state police chief Manoj Yadava said today.

The Maharashtra government will explore the possibility of merging crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) with other bank, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.

India will host the 91st Interpol General Assembly in 2022 after a proposal in this regard was cleared with "overwhelming support" from members countries of the international police cooperation body, officials said on Saturday.

Some Muslim litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute have said that if the Supreme Court's verdict is in their favour then the construction of mosque should be delayed on the disputed land in Ayodhya to maintain harmony.

Actor and BJP MP from Gurdaspur, Sunny Deol on Saturday campaigned for Om Parkash Dhankar, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) candidate from Badli assembly constituency in Haryana.

A criminal complaint has been filed in a court in Hajipur against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his recent remarks that people from Bihar visit the national capital for free medical treatment.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today attacked the government over the alleged decline in population of cattle in the country, saying that the government's love for cows is only on paper.

The Congress today accused the BJP of raising the issue of revocation of Article 370 provisions in assembly polls campaign for electoral gains and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must tell the people that it was because of the Congress that Pakistan's integral part split from it.

Six people drowned as the vehicle in which they were travelling plunged into a canal in Suryapet district, a senior police official said on Saturday.

The Customs Department at the Chennai airport on Saturday recovered gold worth Rs 36 lakh from two passengers who had concealed it in their rectum.

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday conducted searches at about a dozen premises of DHFL and other linked firms in connection with its money laundering probe against Iqbal Mirchi, the aide of global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, officials said.

A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader today said that the Pakistan-sponsored terrorists who killed three civilians, including an apple trader, this week in Jammu and Kashmir did it "out of frustration" to cause fear among people.

The mother of Kamlesh Tiwari, the leader of a political party in Uttar Pradesh who was killed at his house in Lucknow on Friday, has alleged he was killed by a local politician over a land dispute. His son, Satyam Tiwari, has said he does not "trust anyone" and wants the anti-terror National Investigation Agency to probe the case.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday restrained the Uttar Pradesh police from arresting Abbas Ansari, an international shooting player and son of jailed Member of Legislative Assembly, Mukhtar Ansari, in connection with recovery the of arms from his possession.

BJP President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah's helicopter made an emergency landing at Ozar Airport in Nashik, around 160 kilometers from Mumbai, due to heavy rains on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for the October 21 Maharashtra Assembly polls, an official said.