Top Stories from Northern Region at 9 Pm

New Delhi, May 4 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the nrothern region at 9 pm

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth is rushing back from Karnataka tonight, cutting short his election tour amid opposition flak for staying away from his own state even after a storm claimed 75 lives there.

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Agra: Ram Bharose stares blankly at the dark, still damp patch of earth where his son and nephew bled to death two nights ago, when a high-intensity dust storm reduced to a crumpled heap his home and his family's hopes for the future.

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New Delhi/Jaipur: The doppler radar in the Jaipur Met office, a critical component in the accurate forecasting of weather events, was not working the night of May 2 when a high velocity dust storm cut a swathe of destruction through parts of Rajasthan, killing at least 35 people, an IMD official said.

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Aligarh/Gorakhpur (UP): A Samajwadi Party MP today likened Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru as tension simmered at Aligarh Muslim University, the centre of a row over a portrait of the Pakistan founder.

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New Delhi: Almost seven decades after he died, Pakistan's founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah continues to trigger controversies -- be it over praise by some BJP leaders or merely because of a portrait of him hanging on a university wall.

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Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh minister today defended her party leaders visiting Dalit homes and having dinner there, saying they do so braving "mosquito bites the whole night", even as the ruling party's outreach programme faces criticism from opposition -- and some BJP leaders as well.

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Kasauli (HP): Narayani Devi, whose son is accused of killing a woman officer leading a demolition drive against illegal construction, began her day early today, digging deep into the rubble of the guesthouse named after her to try and salvage what she could.

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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against 15 people today in a case related to the killing of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) leader Ravinder Gosain in Punjab's Ludhiana in October last year.

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Jaipur: Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said efforts to bring back water and electricity supply in the three dust storm-affected districts of the state have picked up pace and claimed that relief was provided in minimum time.

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New Delhi: Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal has been appointed as the acting chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court after incumbent chief justice Shivax Jal Vazifdar demitted office at midnight upon his retirement.

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