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Digest for domestic stories for week Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2017

Saturday New Delhi: Eight coaches of Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derails near Rampur in Uttar Pradesh leaving at least two passengers injured, railway officials said.

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Saturday

New Delhi: Eight coaches of Meerut-Lucknow Rajya Rani Express derails near Rampur in Uttar Pradesh leaving at least two passengers injured, railway officials said.

Srinagar: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah wins the Srinagar Lok Sabha bypoll, defeating the ruling PDP candidate, Nazir Khan, by a margin of over 10,700 votes.

Bhubaneswar: BJP president Amit Shah cautions party leaders against complacency, saying it is yet to reach the peak as he rolled out plans for its expansion in states where it has been traditionally weak.

Sunday

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh urged the Election Commission to allow political parties to examine the coding software of electronic voting machines (EVMs).

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls for taking a "long jump" towards building a new India by 2022 as he insisted on socio-economic transformation dominating the national discourse in the same way as independence did Mahatma Gandhi's talk.

Bhubaneswar: Raising the 'triple talaq' issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says justice should be done to Muslim women and asked the BJP to reach out to the backward sections in the community over his government s bill to accord constitutional status to the OBC Commission.

Monday

New Delhi/Kolkata: The CBI books 12 top TMC leaders, including MPs and ministers, in connection with the Narada sting operation case, drawing a sharp reaction from the party chief Mamata Banerjee, who called it a "political game".

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) issues a show cause notice to Karti Chidambaram and a firm purportedly linked to him for alleged FEMA violations of Rs 45 crore, a charge rejected as "baseless" by his father, senior Congress leader P Chidamabaram.

New Delhi: The Congress demands that the EC revert to the old system of paper ballots till the time all EVMs were linked to VVPAT machines providing paper trail of votes and quoted a Supreme Court verdict in this regard.

Tuesday

New Delhi/Mumbai: A beleaguered Vijay Mallya may have walked free on bail within hours of his arrest but the event, which he nonchalantly dismissed as "usual Indian media hype", had rival parties claiming credit for it and engaging in recrimination.

New Delhi: The CBI initiates an inquiry against Delhi PWD Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with alleged irregularities in the hiring of professionals in the Public Works Department.

Lucknow: The Agra airport would now be named after RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya while the upcoming civil terminal at Gorakhpur Air Force station would be named after Mahayogi Gorakhnath who is known as the founder of the Nath monastic movement.(MORE)

 

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

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