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Amanatullah Khan resigns from AAP post

A day after accusing Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas of “plotting a coup” in the party, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday resigned from the party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC).

Speaking to reporters after the PAC meeting, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the party leadership was upset with both Mr. Khan as well Mr. Vishwas for airing their differences in public.

He said the PAC has accepted Mr. Khan’s resignation. “Arvindji is upset with both Kumar and Amanatullah. The PAC also discussed Vishwas’ absence from the meeting. Even he (Vishwas) has been giving interviews and releasing video. The party is also unhappy with this. “The chief minister and other party leaders are upset over statements given outside the party forum. If anyone has grievances, they can raise them with the party leadership,” Mr. Sisodia said.

The deputy chief minister said such developments were denting the party’s image and affecting the morale of volunteers, while “warning the party leaders not to air their grievances in public, but at appropriate party fora.”

Remaining defiant, Mr. Khan, however, said he stood with his remarks against Mr. Vishwas. “Kumar Vishwas is an RSS—BJP agent and Arvind ji will soon realise it. He (Vishwas) talks about disconnect between party volunteers and leadership, but he had invited (former Delhi Commissioner) B.S. Bassi and (National Security Advisor) Ajit Doval for his birthday party.

“It was Bassi, who had arrested AAP MLAs and workers under false pretext,” the Okhla legislator said.

In a major rejig last year,Mr. Khan had made it to the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), party’s top decision making body.

He had claimed that poet-turned-politician Vishwas was calling MLAs to his residence and coaxing them to rebel against Mr. Kejriwal or to join the BJP.

His allegations were ridiculed by senior AAP leaders, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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Casteism, appeasement will end, says Yogi Adityanath

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that the politics of casteism and appeasement will end while the agenda of development and devotion to the nation would sustain.

He was speaking at the two-day BJP meet which began in Lucknow.

“Politics of nepotism, casteism and appeasement will end, only politics of development and ‘rashtra bhakti’ (devotion to the nation) will sustain,” Mr. Adityanath said.

Apart from top BJP leaders including the party president Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh state office bearers and hundreds of delegates are expected to participate in the two-day event.

SC orders Justice Karnan to be medically examined

A seven-judge Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar on Monday ordered controversial Calcutta High Court judge, Justice C.S. Karnan, to be medically examined by a board of doctors in a bid to confirm the possibility of the judge "feigning mental imbalance".

The order was prompted by Justice Karnan's recent 'purported judicial order' directing the CJI and seven Supreme Court judges to appear before him on May 1, 2017.

The order, Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi termed, was a "gross aggravation of contempt of the Supreme Court".

Justice Karnan passed the order in violation of the seven-judge Bench order on February 8, 2017 order directing him to refrain from judicial and administrative work during the pendency of the current contempt proceedings.

After a run of 76 years, BBC Tamil Radio to go off air

For K. Raja, a working professional, the BBC Tamil radio broadcast used to be the only source of information to keep himself updated on current affairs. “From the war in Sri Lanka to the Gulf War, our source of updates in the 1980s and 90s was the Tamizhosai BBC Tamil Radio service,” he recalled.

Nearly 76 years after it was started on May 3, 1941, the broadcast had its last show on April 30. The short wave transmission broadcast, which became a daily programme from 9.15 p.m. to 9.45 p.m. in the 90s, initially began as a weekly programme. The radio broadcast then became a bi-weekly programme in the eighties.

“For people in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka who were keen to know more about current affairs and international news in particular and wanted to listen to it in a language they were comfortable with, the Tamil broadcast was a staple. The radio broadcast was always known for its objective reporting of the Sri Lankan civil war and had a lot of listeners from there,” said Sampath Kumar, a former correspondent with the BBC.

Tihar electrical repair shop finds many fans

With mercury levels rising in the Capital, an electrical repair shop at Tihar Jail has proved to be a boon for the inmates as well as the administration.

Unlike previous summers, when fans would take a long time to be repaired by the Public Works Department, they are now repaired in a matter hours.

The shop was set up in jail no.1 three months ago. It’s run entirely by the inmates.

Satish Kapoor, who is one of the trainers, says minor repairs are carried out almost instantly at the centre and the ones that require motor winding (which is also taught at the centre) also don’t take more than a day. In the last two months, the shop has repaired 137 fans.

“Earlier, it would take three months to repair one fan, due to which the inmates would suffer. Sometimes, fans would return as late as the winter months, when those were not even required,” says a jail official.

Two soldiers killed as Pakistan violates ceasefire in Poonch's KG Sector

Two soldiers were killed and one another was injured in Pakistan Army's ceasefire violations in Poonch district’s Krishna Ghati sector on Monday morning.

A Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman told The Hindu that Pakistan resorted to heavy firing around 8:30 a.m. along the Line of Control (LoC). "They fired rockets and from automatic weapons in KG Sector," the spokesman said.

Of the three injured, BSF head constable Prem Sagar and Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) from the Army succumbed to their injures.

"Another constable from the BSF also sustained injury, but is out of danger," the spokesman said.