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Days after killing mafia-tuned politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed, one of three shooters made some big revelations during the police interrogation. According to sources, 23-year-old Sunny, a resident of Hamirpur, claimed that they had procured ammunition from contacts of the 'Jitendra Gogi gang' in Delhi. The 'Jitendra Gogi gang' wanted to use them in carrying out a major incident in NCR. Notably, gang's leader Jitendra was shot dead at Rohini court in September 2021. 

Babar of Kanpur was also associated with this gang and through him these shooters came in contact with the Gogi gang. This gang makes weapons and gets them sourced from Punjab. The three assailants who attacked Atiq wanted to be like gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, sources added. 

Sharad Pawar once again quelled Ajit Pawar's attempt of rebellion and reined in the party MLAs who apparently were ready to leave with Ajit.

with Ajit Pawar on Tuesday night attended the NCP's Iftar party in Mumbai with uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar and his daughter MP Supriya Sule after a day-long drama speculating rifts in the Nationalist Congress Party. At the Iftar party, Sharad Pawar criticised the 'ruling forces' that inculcate the habit of taking the law in the hand. Without mentioning UP and the encounter of Asad Ahmad, the son of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, Sharad Pawar said there is an attempt to create an atmosphere that this is the right thing to do, and this is not good for the country. 

Calling marriage an "exclusively heterogenous institution", the Centre today again opposed granting legal sanction to same-sex marriage, and said the question of considering it equal to the existing concept of marriage "seriously affects the interests of every citizen". A court order recognising same-sex marriages would mean a virtual judicial rewriting of an entire branch of law, the government argued, adding that the Court must refrain from passing such "omnibus orders".

It's not discrimination to grant recognition to the "heterogenous institution of marriage alone" to the exclusion of same-sex marriage, the government argued, saying that this is because conventional and universally accepted socio-legal relationships like marriages across all religions, are "deeply rooted in the Indian social context and indeed is considered a sacrament in all branches of Hindu law. Even in Islam, though it is a contract, it is a sacred contract and a valid marriage is only between a biological male and a biological woman".

The CBI on early Monday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in West Bengal Teachers Recruitment scam case. 

He is the third such MLA after Partha Chatterjee and Manik Bhattacharya to be arrested by CBI in the case. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the newly built All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Assam’s Guwahati. AIIMS-Guwahati was planned under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY).

PM Modi dedicated the Rs 1,123 crore medical facility, the first AIIMS in the North East, to the nation and also virtually inaugurated three medical colleges at Nalbari, Nagaon and Kokrajhar.

PM Modi is dedicating Rs 14,300 crore worth of development projects on the first day of the Assam’s spring festival ‘Rongali Bihu’.