New Delhi, Mar 7 (PTI) These are the top stories from the northern region at 8.45 pm

These are the top stories from the northern region at 8.45 pm JAMMU DEL94 JK-LDALL BLAST Jammu: A grenade explosion rocked the crowded general bus stand in the heart of Jammu city on Thursday killing a teenager and injuring 32 others and within hours a man whom the police said was tasked by terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen to carry out the attack was arrested. MOGA DEL75 PB-LD RAHUL Moga: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of spreading hatred and anger in the country and putting the real issues on the back-burner.

DHARAMSHALA DEL85 HP-RAHUL Dharamshala: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of politicising the air strikes on the Balakot terror camp in Pakistan, saying his own party had exercised restraint. LUCKNOW DES37 UP-PM-VISIT Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi, Kanpur and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Friday and unveil multiple development projects for the state.

LUCKNOW DEL44 UP-PM-CHAIR Lucknow: Ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kanpur, the local BJP unit has got a “lucky chair” all polished and spruced up for him. LUCKNOW DEL57 UP-2NDLD KASHMIRIS-ATTACK Lucknow: Two Kashmiris selling dry fruit were thrashed by a group of saffron-clad men in Daliganj locality here, following which four persons have been arrested, police said Thursday.

NEW DELHI DES26 DL-WOMENS DAY-DCPs New Delhi: For three women officers of Delhi Police, shattering the norms of patriarchy and achieving gender equality begin at home. NEW DELHI LGD30 DL-COURT-RIOTS New Delhi: A key prosecution witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case Thursday reiterated before a Delhi court that Congress leader Sajjan Kumar had instigated the mob to kill Sikhs.

NEW DELHI LGD23 DL-COURT-PUSHKAR New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Thursday told a Delhi court that former AIIMS forensic chief Sudhir Gupta concealed the post-mortem report of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. NEW DELHI DEL68 DL-AAP-CONG New Delhi: Amid a flip-flop over alliance with the Congress to take on the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, the AAP Thursday said Rahul Gandhi should take a decision about the seat-sharing with it considering the national situation, instead of "batting from behind" his party's Delhi unit.

LUCKNOW DEL79 UP-RAJNATH Lucknow: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid foundation stones of 80 road projects worth over Rs 1,10,154 crore in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. CHANDIGARH NRG3 PB-EMPLOYEES-COMMITTEE Chandigarh: The Punjab government has formed a committee for framing a comprehensive policy for the regularisation of about 45,000 contractual employees in the state.

NEW TEHRI DES1 UKD-HOOCH New Tehri: Two persons have died after consuming spurious liquor at Maroda village in Tehri district. SRINAGAR DEL55 JK-2NDLD ENCOUNTER Srinagar: A Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist from Pakistan was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said.

LUCKNOW DES25 UP-ADITYANATH-CLASH Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday said indiscipline will not be tolerated in the party, a day after two elected representatives of the ruling BJP came to blows during an official meeting. PTI ASH ASH.