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Congress, not BJP, playing divisive politics, says Modi
Sujanpur (Hamirpur), Feb 16
The Congress was pursuing the policy of divide and rule over the creation of a separate Telangana state. BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said this while addressing a rally at Sujanpur in Hamirpur district today.

One of the oldest Kashmir militants killed in Sopore firefight
Srinagar, February 16
In the fast depleting ranks of home-grown militants in J&K, Mohammad Shafi Sheikh of Sopore today became one more number in the ‘kill figure.’ But Sheikh’s addition to the 21,000-plus dead (according to the Home Ministry’s estimate since militancy began in the 1990s) came with grimness of a lost count of the state’s youth: he was one of the oldest, deadliest and committed men of a lost cause.

CBI starts fresh grilling of Tyagi brothers
New Delhi, February 16
The CBI has started fresh questioning of the cousins of former IAF Chief SP Tyagi in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal in light of claims by alleged middleman Guido Haschke that he had paid money to them. Sources said that the agency has recently questioned Sanjeev, alias Julie, Rajeev, alias Docsa, and Sandeep in connection with the claims made by Haschke.

Hooda out with more
poll sops
Dabwali (Sirsa), February 16
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced several new projects, besides creation of Kalanwali as a new sub division of Sirsa in his bête noire Om Prakash Chautala’s home turf Dabwali. While the CM was addressing rally, an attempt was made to hurl a shoe at him.


A police officer holds a shoe hurled at Hooda during the rally.

 Shoe hurled at CM

AAP names 20 candidates to take on top players in Lok Sabha poll New Delhi, February 16 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today announced its first list of 20 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The list names its challengers to political biggies such as Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, former BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Ajit Singh, Union ministers Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Salman Khurshid, among others.