Following are the top stories from the northern region at 5.30 pm.
SRINAGAR DEL9 JK-LD ABDUCTIONS
Srinagar: Militants have abducted at least seven relatives of policemen from various places in south Kashmir, officials said today.
LUCKNOW DEL35 UP-MORCHA
Lucknow: After floating Samajwadi Secular Morcha, its founder Shivpal Yadav today announced that the front will contest all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2019.
NEWDELHI LGD24 DL-COURT-TERROR
New Delhi: A Delhi court today sent the second son of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till September 10.
SRINAGAR NRG2 JK-STRIKE
Srinagar: Life in Kashmir was disrupted for the second consecutive day today due to a complete shutdown called by separatists against the legal challenge in the Supreme Court on the validity of Article 35A, which bars people from outside Jammu and Kashmir from acquiring any immovable property in the state.
NEWDELHI DES4 DL-EDMC-MEAT
New Delhi: All restaurants and shops selling or serving meat in east Delhi will have to mandatorily display boards specifying if it is halal or 'jhatka' meat, the highest decision-making body of the area's municipal corporation has proposed.
SHAHJAHANPUR DES2 UP-WOMAN-SUICIDE
Shahjahanpur: A 28-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped by a man, died after she set herself ablaze in a police station here following which three policemen were suspended, an official said today.
CHANDIGARH LGD22 PB-COMMISSION-AIRLINES
Chandigarh: The Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission here has ordered two airlines to jointly pay a compensation of Rs 35 lakh to a woman and her two minor children for the "mental agony, tension, harassment" suffered by them after being asked to deboard a Toronto-bound flight at Delhi airport last year.
NEWDELHI LGD28 DL-HC-POULTRY SLAUGHTER
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today directed the AAP government's Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board (DAMB) to shut down all the poultry slaughterhouses running from its premises at Ghazipur here without the approval of the pollution controlling body DPCC.
IN THE PIPELINE
Vrindavan: The sprawling 1,000-bed Krishna-Kutir in Vrindavan is currently home to only 23 widows amid apprehensions by them over their safety and distance from the centre of the city.
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