New Delhi, Feb 7 (PTI) These are the top stories from the northern region at 9.30 pm

These are the top stories from the northern region at 9.30 pm LUCKNOW DEL63 UP-LDALL BUDGET Lucknow: , Feb 7 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday allocated Rs 1,200 crore for a scheme for girls and Rs 612 crore for stray cattle and construction of cow shelters in the Budget for 2019-20 financial year ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. LUCKNOW DEL52 UP-PRIYANKA VISIT Lucknow: (PTI) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will arrive here Monday on a four-day visit, her first trip to the state after being appointed the Congress general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh.

SHIMLA DES25 HP-CONG WALKOUT Shimla: The opposition Congress walked out of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly during Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's reply to the Governor's address on the fourth day of the ongoing budget session on Thursday. NEW DELHI DES50 LD WEATHER New Delhi/Srinagar: Rain, hailstorms and snowfall lashed several parts of northern India on Thursday, disrupting normal life at many places, officials said.

JAIPUR DEL70 RJ-BITCOIN-DEATH-JAIPUR (RPT) Jaipur: The CEO of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Canada, whose death left over a lakh of customers without the passwords to access their funds worth USD 145 million, had been admitted at a private hospital here SHIMLA NRG16 HP-CONG Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Congress has asked former chief minister Virbhadra Singh's son Vikramaditya Singh to look after party affairs in CM Jai Ram Thakur's home district Mandi. CHANDIGARH DES44 PB-LD DGP Chandigarh: Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta Thursday took over as new director general of Punjab police, succeeding Suresh Arora, who was on an extension after his retirement on September 30 last year.

CHANDIGARH DES12 PB-ARMENIA-PUNJABIS Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday assured External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj that appropriate action would be taken against the travel agents accused of sending four Punjabis to Armenia fraudulently. DHAMPUR DEL54 JK-ARMY-TERRORISTS Udhampur (J&K): The Army on Thursday said 450 terrorists were operating in Jammu and Kashmir and the terror infrastructure across the Line of Control (LoC) was intact with the full support of Pakistan as 16 terrorist camps were operating in the neighbouring country and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

NEW DELHI DEL49 JK-TERROR-CHARGESHEET New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has filed a charge sheet against eight people, including journalist Aasif Sultan, for allegedly harbouring militants and conspiring with banned terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, officials said on Thursday. GORAKHPUR DES45 UP-LIQUOR TOLL Gorakhpur (UP): The toll in spurious hooch case in adjoining Kushinagar district Thursday rose to six with two more deaths, prompting authorities to take action against nine officials.

CHANDIGARH DES39 PB-DGP-PRIORITY Chandigarh: Senior IPS officer Dinkar Gupta, who took over as new Punjab police chief Thursday, said a safe and secure Punjab has always been the priority of the police force of the border state facing many challenges. NEW DELHI DES43 DL-WOMAN-KILLED New Delhi: A man killed a married woman, 18 years older than him, after she rejected his marriage proposal in outer Delhi's Nangloi, police said Thursday.

NEW DELHI DES31 DL-SWINE FLU New Delhi: Over 100 fresh cases of swine flu were recorded in Delhi on Thursday, taking the total number of people affected by the disease in the city this year to 1,196, according to a senior official. NEW DELHI DES27 DL-STUDENTS-MARCH New Delhi: Thousands of students from varsities across the country braved the winter chill and marched from the Red Fort to Parliament Street in Delhi on Thursday to demand better employment and educational opportunities.

NEW DELHI DES26 DL-RML-SUICIDE-PROBE New Delhi: Three doctors of the Centre-run Ram Manohar Lohia hospital were booked on Thursday for allegedly abetting the suicide of their colleague, police said. NEW DELHI DES24 DL-SOUMYA-LD KEJRIWAL New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Thursday directed the Delhi chief secretary to issue a show cause notice to the public prosecutor who "skipped" hearings in the journalist Soumya Vishwanathan case, while asserting the government will ensure appointment of a good lawyer in his place.

NEW DELHI DES21 DL-CM-LD BIKE AMBULANCE New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched on Thursday bike-ambulance services, equipped with GPS device, for east Delhi on a pilot basis, saying it would provide quick pre-hospital response in congested areas. PTI ASH ASH.

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