HIGHLIGHTS NORTH 5 PM

These are the top stories from the northern region at 5 pm

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Lucknow; Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati will address a joint press meet here Saturday, amid talks of seat-sharing for Lok Sabha polls from which the Congress seems to be almost out.

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Lucknow: The Congress is ready to go it alone in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections, a senior state leader said on Friday as speculation about an SP-BSP seat sharing alliance spiralled with the two parties announcing a joint press conference of their chiefs.

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Panchkula: A CBI court Friday held Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others guilty of murdering journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati in 2002.

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Lucknow: The crime graph of Uttar Pradesh has recorded a downward trend in 2018 in comparison to 2017 figures, UP top cop OP Singh said Friday.

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Ferozepur: A farmer has killed his wife and two children at Armanpura village in the border district here, police said Friday.

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Srinagar: IAS officer Shah Faesal, who has announced his resignation, Friday said he was willing to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections but would not be joining any political party "as of now".

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Jammu: Seventy-nine-year-old Mohan Lal has a last wish: To live the remainder of his life along with "my community" and die in "my homeland".

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Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik Friday said the administration was ready for assembly elections in the state and a call in this direction should be taken by the Election Commission and New Delhi.

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New Delhi: In the last four years, there have been efforts to actively propagate pseudoscience and anti-science perceptions, D Raghunandan of All India Peoples Science Network said, while expressing concern over attacks on critical thinking in educational institutes like JNU.

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