New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) These are the top stories from the northern region at 6.45 pm

These are the top stories from the northern region at 6.45 pm PANCHKULA LGD19 HR-LD-SAMJHAUTA Panchkula (Har), Mar 20 (PTI) A special court here Wednesday acquitted Swami Aseemanand and three others in the Samjhauta train blast case that left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead in 2007. LUCKNOW ELN42 UP-2NDLD MAYAWATI Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Wednesday announced that she will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, but kept open the option of fighting a parliamentary by-election later.

MIRZAPUR ELN14 UP-LD PRIYANKA Mirzapur (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi should stop thinking that people are fools and understand that they see through everything, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said Wednesday. LUCKNOW DEL23 UP-AKHILESH-BJP Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav suggested the BJP on Wednesday that its decision to not give Lok Sabha tickets to sitting Chhattisgarh parliamentarians should apply for the saffron party's "leader" too.

DEHRADUN ELX5 POLL-UKD-CAMPAIGN Dehradun: Star campaigners of both BJP and Congress will hit the campaign trail in Uttarakhand after Holi to shore up chances of their respective candidates on the five Lok Sabha seats of the state going to polls in the first phase on April 11. SRINAGAR DES6 JK-NC-YOUTH Srinagar: The National Conference said Wednesday that the Jammu and Kashmir administration should clarify whether the Awantipora youth was in the custody of NIA or state police at the time of his death.

NEW DELHI DES8 DL-NIGERIAN-BEATEN-UP New Delhi: A 35-year-old Nigerian national was thrashed by locals allegedly for manhandling two traffic constables who had stopped him at Dwarka Mor for driving a two-wheeler without wearing a helmet, police said on Wednesday. PTI ASH ASH.