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A committee headed by the executive director of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) is currently scrutinising the detailed project report and drafting the tenders, the minister said.

He is currently lodged at Sunaria jail in Rohtak after being convicted in two rape cases and murder of a journalist.

The poll body was responding to Pune-based RTI activist Vihar Durve who had demanded Lavasa's dissent notes, pertaining to speeches given by Modi in rallies at Wardha on April 1, Latur on April 9, Patan and Barmer on April 21 and Varanasi on April 25.

The accused was living with them for about one-and-a-half years ago and killed both over their objection to his proposal to marry their daughter.

The accused was identified as Guddu, alias Vishwajeet, a resident of Mahipalpur here. He hails from Buxar, in Bihar, they added.

The Madras High Court had recently banned the mobile app on a petition which contended that pornographic contents were uploaded on it.

They were returning home from a picnic to Guldanda late on Saturday when the accident occurred, Superintendent of Police (SP) Raj Singh Gouria told PTI.

Stating that the entire health services had been left at God's mercy, the RLSP president said chief minister Nitish Kumar was responsible for the children's deaths in large numbers in Muzaffarpur district.

In the taped conversation, the militant is heard threatening the NPP worker to stop spreading words against the NSCN (IM) or face dire consequences, a senior official said.

Customs Spokesman Deputy Director Sunil Jayaratne said the suspects, aged between 36 and 53 had concealed the gold biscuits in their luggages, pockets of the trousers they were wearing and their rectum, reports the Daily Mirror newspaper.

Director General of Police-rank IPS officer A R Anuradha of 1987 batch, who was transferred out last week as Principal Secretary (Home), has been posted as Director General of AP State Disaster Response and Fire Services.

Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Shopian, following information about the presence of militants there, a police official said.

Children are not getting proper nutrition, often suffering from malnourishment, a common pattern found in over 129 death cases reported in Muzaffarpur.

Prime facie, it seems the man committed suicide after killing the woman, Rajendra Singh, Station House Officer (SHO), Amer Police Station said.

The CPI(M) leader, who met the media for the first time since the controversy erupted a few days ago, said he did not know the whereabouts of Binoy, said to be absconding.

In another incident of sexual assault in Hyderabad, a 60-year-old man was arrested for allegedly abusing a minor girl, the police said.