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Rizvi, once a close aide of Samajwadi leader Azam Khan, briefed the media saying, “There is no meaning of building a mosque now at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Instead, a Mosque dedicated to peace and brotherhood should be built in Lucknow.”

In a major success, three militants were arrested in Budgam and an SLR rifle, a pistol and few grenades were seized from their possession, a police official said.

With the tweet, Tharoor was targeting the Narendra Modi government and the demonetisation decision. But he had to face the ire of social media users, who thought it was not in good taste.

A Bajrang Dal stall has books expounding how girls can save themselves from "love jihad", citing actors Aamir and Saif Ali Khan's case in which the men "abandoned their Hindu wives to marry other Hindu women."

The letter mentioned that, while, Gaon (Village) Panchayat certificates will not be considered valid until the Supreme Court rules on it, ration cards do not fall under the same category.

The UIDAI took note and got the Aadhaar data removed from the said websites, it said in reply to the RTI application. UIDAI issues Aadhaar — a 12-digit unique identification number — which acts as a proof of identity and address anywhere in the country.

"The minimum temperatures on Sunday in Kargil, Srinagar and Pahalgam were minus 5.8, 2.9 and minus 0.5 degrees Celsius, respectively," the official said.

"The only statesman in the world who stood up to it yet, is Prime Minister Modi. He and his team have been quite outspoken, partly because the Belt and Road Initiative includes violation of Indian sovereign claims," said Michael Pillsbury, Director of Cen...

The Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC), mandated to develop and redevelop new and existing railway stations, has called an international design competition to develop the stations according to international standards.

The victim's mother noticed that her daughter was depressed and quiet since the last few days. When asked, the the girl initially did not speak but later narrated her ordeal to her mother, Jehangirabad police station's Inspector Preetam Singh Thakur said.

The green panel, however, refused to lift its ban on industrial activities causing pollution in the Delhi-National Capital Region region.

Under the government plan, state-run NTPC will buy waste from farmers and use it to make biomass pellets, and fuel at its power plants will be 10 percent biomass and 90 percent coal.

If it's successful, it could give a major boost to the fledgling field of gene therapy. Scientists have edited people's genes before, altering cells in the lab that are then returned to patients. There also are gene therapies that don't involve editing DN...

The National Security Guard has written to the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking permission to collaborate with European nations that have witnessed such attacks in the past.

Widespread smog caused by the combustion of fuels, and the burning of crops and fires made it dangerous to be outside in cities in northern India and Pakistan, it said.

In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Justice (Retd) KT Thomas cited the 1964 release of Gopal Godse, brother of main accused Nathuram Godse, in the Mahatma Gandhi assassination case.