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In top national news: Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari died Thursday night after he suffered a cardiac arrest in Banda prison in Uttar Pradesh. Convicted in eight cases in the last two years, 63-year-old Ansari was lodged in Banda jail. A five-time MLA from Mau constituency in eastern UP, he was a history-sheeter with a total of 65 cases against him in different police stations of UP and Delhi. A statement issued by Banda Medical College, where Ansari was taken, said he complained of vomiting and fell unconscious at 8.25 pm. “A team of nine doctors gave him immediate medical assistance....