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Digest for domestic stories for week Mar 11 - Mar 17, 2017

Chandigarh: Congress candidate Gurjit Singh Aujla wins the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin of 1,99,189 votes over nearest rival Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina of the BJP.

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Saturday

Lucknow/New Delhi: Decimated in the UP

polls, the BSP alleges tampering of EVMs, prompting the Samajwadi Party and the Congress to demand a probe, but the Election Commission said there was "no merit" in the charge.

Chandigarh: Congress candidate Gurjit Singh Aujla wins the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin of 1,99,189 votes over nearest rival Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina of the BJP.

New Delhi: The Nobel citation of child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi was recovered from the jungles in Sangam Vihar more than a month after it was stolen from his south Delhi home, says police.

Sunday

Panaji/Imphal: All set to form its governments in UP and Uttarakhand, the BJP starts jockeying for power in Goa and Manipur where it fails to emerge as the single largest party, cobbling together post- poll alliances.

New Delhi: Fresh from BJP's landslide win in UP and Uttarakhand after a bitter and often divisive campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about inclusivity and pitches for building a 'new India' by 2022 that would have made the nation's founding fathers proud.

New Delhi: A day after the massive poll victories in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today appears to be setting his sights beyond the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as he asked the countrymen to join him in building a 'new India' by 2022.

Monday

Jammu: The Poonch-based cross-border Trade Facilitation Centre was damaged and the cross-LoC travel had to be suspended today due to heavy shelling by Pakistan, which triggered a sharp reply from the Indian troops.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was given the additional charge of the Defence Ministry after Manohar Parrikar resigned to take on the new role of Goa Chief Minister.

New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju describes the attack on a student from Arunachal Pradesh in Bengaluru as "saddening" and says the Home Ministry is also pursuing the matter besides the police investigation.

Tuesday

New Delhi: Sri Lanka releases 85 Indian fishermen, a week after it assured that it will set free all those held in its custody.

New Delhi: A Dalit research scholar at JNU, who was at the forefront of a students' movement following Rohith Vemula's suicide, was found dead at a friend's residence with his family demanding a CBI probe into his death.

Chennai: Expelled AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam leads a nine-member delegation to the Election Commission of India tomorrow on the issue of V K Sasikala's appointment as AIADMK chief.

Wednesday

Jaipur/Allahabad/New Delhi: It was a bad day for Indian Air Force as a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet crashed in Rajasthan's Barmer hours after a Chetak helicopter crash landed and toppled in Kaushambi near Allahabad.

Kolhapur: In the second such incident since January, the set of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film "Padmavati" was vandalised last midnight, following which the film crew was provided police protection.

New Delhi: The Centre increases dearness allowance and dearness relief to 4 per cent from existing 2 per cent from January 1, 2017, benefiting 48.85 employees and 55.51 lakh pensioners.(MORE)

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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