HIGHLIGHTS NORTH 9.40 PM

These are the top stories from the northern region at 9.40 pm

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Jaipur: After discussions that lasted hours, the Congress Wednesday failed to bring about a consensus in its ranks in Rajasthan on who should be the chief minister even as it staked its claim to form the government.

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Jaipur: Congress MLA Vishvendra Singh has expressed disagreement over the process of seeking opinion of party legislators to select the chief ministerial candidate in Rajasthan when party president Rahul Gandhi will decide the face for the coveted post.

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Lucknow: Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav asked him to "reveal" caste of other deities so he could pray to the God of his caste.

 

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Lucknow: A case was registered Wednesday against Uttar Pradesh Nav Nirman Sena, a fringe group batting for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as the next prime minister, for putting up hoardings in Lucknow terming PM Narendra Modi as "jumlebaaz".

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Srinagar: A Bollywood song, the excitement of a father to be, the anticipation of a wedding yet to happen... snatches of memories are all that the families of the four Jammu and Kashmir policemen killed by terrorists have to hold on to.

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Kota (R'than): An eight-year-old Dalit girl, who had gone missing after she went to graze cattle, is suspected to have been strangled to death after being raped in a village in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district, police said Wednesday.

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Chandigarh: Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu credited Congress's victory in three Hindi heartland states to party chief Rahul Gandhi and said the win will change the "picture and fate" of the country.

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Chandigarh: Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu called on Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at his residence Wednesday and held "cordial talks".

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Jodhpur: The Rajasthan High Court Wednesday stayed the arrest of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey but refused to quash an FIR against him for allegedly defaming the Brahmin community.

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Dehradun: The Uttarakhand High Court asked the state government Wednesday to submit before it the amount to be recovered from former chief ministers for occupying government bungalows for years after demitting office.

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Srinagar: Doctors on Wednesday successfully removed the pellet lodged in the right eye of an 18-month-old girl, Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir who was injured after getting hit inside her house last month.

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New Delhi: A section of Delhi BJP leaders has expressed reservations over party veteran LK Advani's reported acceptance of an invitation to join silver jubilee celebrations of Delhi Legislative Assembly, which is dominated by Arvind Kejriwal's AAP.

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New Delhi: Delhi Police has entered the Limca Book of Records by training over two lakh women and girls under their self-defence programme in 2017, police said Wednesday.