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Notifications for Delhi polls today

Notifications for Delhi polls todayThe notification for the assembly polls in Delhi will be issued today.

Lt. Governor of Delhi Tejinder Khanna will issue the notification.

After the formal notification, nomination for the polls will begin. Voting for Delhi is scheduled to be held on November 29.

Last date for nomination is 11 November. Scrutiny of papers will be done on the next day 12 Nov. November 14 has been fixed for as the date for withdrawal of nominations.

Counting of votes will be done on 8th of December. The term of present assembly will come to an end on December 17.

Paswan's security may be upgraded

Sadhvi sent to judicial custody till 17

Sadhvi Pragya Singh ThakurSadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in connection with controversial Malegaon blast, was sent to judicial custody with other two persons till November 17 by a Nashik court. The other two are Shivnarayan Singh Kalsangram and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu.

Three were also remanded till November 10 in connection with the same blast case. They are Ajay Rahirkar, Jagdish Mhatre and Rakesh Dhawade.

The ATS demanded 14 days' police custody of Rahirkar, Mhatre and Rakesh Dhawade but the court granted them custody till November 10.

80 kg of RDX used in Guwahati blasts

Nearly 80 kg of deadly RDX was used in the Guwahati blast alone.

According to officials of the forensic laboratory those explosives were used through three maruti cars planted at the blast site. Each of the cars were loaded with approximately 25 kgs of RDX.

"Such large quantity of RDX were never used to carry out explosions in Assam before as Ammonium Nitrate, with plasticers as propellants and Programmable Time Devices (PTD) were usually used to carry out a blast," said an official involved in the investigation process.

This was the maximum amount of explosive used for blasts in the state.

Earlier the highest amount was 10 kgs used to carry out explosion at Dhemaii during Independence Day celebration in 2004.

ATS clueless on Sadhvi's terror links

Sadhvi Pragya ThakurThe much-hyped Malegaon blast controversy has ta

BJP, Sena to provide legal aid to Sadhvi

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