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New Delhi: With the Oppositionsaying that the Centre had on plan in place to resolve the 30-year-old insurgency, it termed the government’s decision to resume operations in Kashmir after a month’s break as policy failure. The BJP-PDP ruling combine blamed unending violence for the Centre’s decision to restart operations in the Valley, saying the militants had failed to reciprocate the peace overture.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah termed the decision as failure of everyone who wanted peace. “The ceasefire or NICO was the Centre’s initiative & yet these people are celebrating its failure as if it had been announced by our enemies. Its failure is the failure of everyone who wanted to give peace a chance,’’ Abdullah tweeted.

New Delhi:  Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said that no one can ‘touch’ him at least till the 2019 LokSabha polls are over on a question over the longevity of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the state.

“This coalition government will function with stability. I know, no one can touch me for one year. I will be there at least for one year, until the LokSabha election is over. Until then, no one can do anything to me, he said.

Addressing an event in Bengaluru, Kumaraswamy said he would not remain silent during the period that he has got and would focus on taking decisions for the benefit of the state.

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate or ED is set to soon file a fresh charge sheet against Vijay Mallyaand his companies on charges of money laundering and allegedly cheating a consortium of nationalised banks to the tune of Rs. 6,027 crore. The decision of the government agency will cause more trouble for liquor baron.

With this charge sheet (also known as the prosecution complaint), official sources said, the central probe agency will immediately seek from a court permission to "confiscate" more than Rs. 9,000 crore worth assets of the beleaguered businessman and his firms under the recently promulgated Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance.

New Delhi:  ParashuramWaghmore, alleged accused in the murder case of GauriLankesh, picked up from Vijayapura district in north Karnataka earlier this week has confessed to killing the journalist-activist. This was informed by the special investigation team (SIT) probing the murder of GauriLankeshhas.

The 26-year-old claimed he didn't know who he was killing when he pumped four bullets into Gauri in front of her house in R R Nagar, Bengaluru, on the night of September 5, 2017, SIT sources said on Friday. "I was told in May 2017 I had to kill someone to save my religion. I agreed. I didn't know who the victim was. Now I feel that I should have not killed the woman," sources quoted Waghmore as confessing to the SIT.Waghmore said he was brought to Bengaluru on September 3. He had been trained to use an airgun in Belagavi.