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The plan to execute former Hindu Mahasabha President Kamlesh Tiwari was made about two months ago by the detained accused over the hate speech given by him, officials said today.

Indian-American Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has highlighted the importance of maintaining a "professional" approach in working with others whose views on policies may differ. Mr Banerjee, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics along with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer, in an exclusive interview with NDTV, said partisanship is not something he follows in his "economic thinking".

The police have seized nearly Rs 18 lakh from a relative of Bhandara District Guardian Minister Parinay Fuke of BJP, who is contesting October 21 Assembly election from Sakoli constituency, the officials said today.

The Delhi Cabinet on Saturday approved an expenditure of Rs 36 crore for carrying out mass awareness campaigns against pollution in the national capital, an official statement said.

Delhiites breathed easy on Saturday as pollution levels in the national capital reduced significantly owing to gusty winds and rainfall in neighbouring areas.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV, India-born Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee has said that the "economic crisis" has to be taken seriously.

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who was called "totally Left-leaning" by union minister Piyush Goyal, today told NDTV that the commerce minister is "questioning my professionalism."

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has slammed the ruling BJP for using nullification of Article 370 as a plank for the October 21 Maharashtra assembly polls, for which campaigning came to end today.

Singer Sapna Chaudhary, who joined the BJP in Haryana recently, campaigned for a rival candidate Gopal Kanda for the assembly election, leaving her party red-faced. In a quick firefighting exercise, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari dissuaded her from campaigning for Mr Kanda, the Haryana Lokhit Party candidate from Sirsa, BJP sources said.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari today said the Centre and Maharashtra government had managed to complete development works in five years that could not be done in 50.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today slammed the "neighbouring" country" for conspiring to push drugs into India to "destroy" the country's youth and called for tackling the problem of drug abuse with an iron hand.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has the highest number of MLAs belonging to the tribal and OBC community.

A complaint was filed at Mumbai's Marine Drive police station against a man for allegedly threatening to harm Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, an official said today.

Maharashtra elections 2019: Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde fainted on the dais while addressing a campaign rally at Parli in Beed district on Saturday.

Over 90 heads of foreign missions in New Delhi are expected to visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar next week to take part in celebrations related to the 550th birth anniversary of Sikh faith founder Guru Nanak Dev.