Mehbooba Mufti, In Detention Since August Last Year, Released; Other Big Stories
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was released late Tuesday night after being detained by the government for nearly 14 months - since it scrapped Article 370 in August - and since being charged under the Public Safety Act (PSA) - a stringent law that allows detention and multiple extensions without trial for up to three months - in February.
-
Delhi residents woke up to a hazy Tuesday morning as the air quality index (AQI) slipped to "very poor" for the first time this season amid increased farm fires in Punjab and Haryana, and local factors such as low wind speed and accumulating pollutants, sparking widespread calls for pre-emptive measures against a crisis that has become routine as winter approaches.
-
Former J&K chief minister and People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti was released from detention late Thursday evening, over 14 months after she and hundreds of politicians and activists were taken into preventive custody ahead of the Centre's abrogating of Article 370 and splitting the state into two Union territories on August 5 last year.
-
Seven person were killed when a row of houses collapsed at Ghousenagar, Bandlaguda, late at night on Tuesday when record-breaking rain lashed the city as well as the rest of the state. The incessant and extremely heavy downpour that began in the morning and continued into the night, threw normal life out of gear.
