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Delhi Chief Arvind Kejriwal tweets election strategist Prashant Kishor's organisation "is coming on board with us"

The Congress will hold a mega rally in Delhi today with top leaders including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi set to participate.

The United States is concerned about the implications of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in India, a top American diplomat responsible for monitoring international religious freedom said on Friday.

Live Updates on Protests Against Citizenship Act : The administration has relaxed the curfew from 9 am to 4 pm in Assam's Guwahati today.

A couple in Varanasi on their wedding day exchanged garlands as is the norm in Indian custom but instead of flowers the garlands were fashioned out of onions and garlic. The pair apparently wanted to make a statement against the high prices of onions.

Ruling CPI (M) and Opposition Congress in Kerala have come together to stage a joint sit-in protest against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he was "grateful" to the Centre for peripheral expressways that helped in bringing down pollution levels in Delhi.

The 7th Economic Census, which is being conducted nationwide through common services centres (CSCs), is expected to be completed by March 2020, Central Statistics Office Director General (Social Statistics) AK Sadhu said on Friday.

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday said the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in the state and neither Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee nor her party, Trinamool Congress, will be able to stop it.

Upset over another transfer -- his 53rd in three decades -- senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka has written to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, saying while "pliable" officials flourish, the honest are given insignificant roles.

The national federation of Indian Gorkhas on Friday demanded expulsion of BJP leader Dr Nishikant Dubey as an MP for his "derogatory" remarks on Gorkhas in the Lok Sabha.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday alleged Congress's slogan "garibi hatao" only removed the poverty of the party's leaders and their acolytes, but the BJP introduced developmental schemes and opened employment opportunities for all.

As Rajasthan girl Suman Rao, crowned Femina Miss India 2019, is set to represent India at the Miss World 2019 pageant, here is a look at all the other Indians who have won the contest. India has won the Miss World title six times in the past, starting from Reita Faria who won the Miss World contest in 1966 upto as recently as Miss World 2017, which was won by Manushi Chillar.

The AAP on Friday condemned the "rape in India" remark by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and urged both the Congress and the BJP to not politicise the issue.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he and his party are against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill which has now become a law, saying they oppose it.