Helium balloons urging electors to vote on 26 April dot Jammu skyline
District Magistrate and Returning Officer Sachin Kumar Vaishya said these balloons have been raised to spread awareness among the voters.
Parties back Centre on Maoists
NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE:
Political parties today favoured the use of all legitimate means to “quell” armed insurgency, underlining that they cannot accept the “pernicious Maoist doctrine”. Ruling out any compromise on the issue, the parties in a unanimous resolution backed the Centre’s strategy against Maoists. sns
Jiah&’s friend held
MUMBAI, 10 JUNE: A week after Bollywood actress Jiah Khan committed suicide, her boyfriend Suraj Pancholi, son of an actor couple, was today arrested on the charge of abetment to suicide, cops said. pti
Monsoon arrives;
life hit in Mumbai
KOLKATA/MUMBAI, 10 JUNE: Bengal received moderate rainfall today. With this, monsoon has finally hit Gangetic West Bengal, said the Meteorological office. For the next 24 hours Kolkata will receive heavy rainfall along with thunderstorm," said the Met office. Meanwhile, the season’s first heavy monsoon showers paralysed Mumbai today. sns
Photographs, reports on pages 3, 13 and 15
Building collapse
MUMBAI, 10 JUNE: An elderly woman was killed and four others were injured when a portion of a four-storey building caved in, apparently due to rain, in Mahim, central Mumbai today, a municipal officer said. “People are feared to have been trapped under the debris,” the officer said, adding that rescue operations are on. pti
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