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On the last day of the hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in the Supreme Court, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj has announced that Ram temple construction will begin in Ayodhya from December 6.

The weather office today confirmed that the crucial north-east monsoon has set in across southern India. "The north-east monsoon has set in in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, south Andhra Pradesh areas, Kerala and Karnataka," regional weather office director Balakrishnan said in Chennai.

NCP leader Praful Patel said that there is not even a single paisa worth property transaction between the Patel family and Hazra Memon.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Jammu and Kashmir administration that why it has not filed a reply on a plea by the wife of a Malaysia-based NRI businessman challenging his detention following abrogation of provisions of Article 370.

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram, who is in Tihar jail in Delhi since September 5 in INX media case, is in "great spirits", his son Karti said today after visiting him this morning at the jail. The 74-year-old Congress leader was arrested by a three-member team of the Enforcement Directorate today after he was questioned for nearly an hour at Delhi's Tihar Jail in the money-laundering case.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma has flagged off a motorcycle rally to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the commencement of the World War 2.

Shiv Sena MP Omraje Nimbalkar was injured when an unidentified man attacked him with a knife in Maharashtra's Osmanabad district on Wednesday, police said.

A labourer from Chhattisgarh was killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama today, less than threedays after a truck driver was shot dead in Shopian. Sources said the terrorists have been targeting labourers, who have come to Jammu and Kashmir from outside the state, to create fear among them and disrupt trade.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a word of caution for "very democratised leadership" whose ill-effects, she said, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is still "cleaning up even today". Her comments during a lecture at the Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs on Tuesday was seen as directed at former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, who last week criticised the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one that is "intrinsically divisive" due to "majoritarian nationalism".

On the last day of daily hearings in the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya temple-mosque case, there were dramatic moments as a senior lawyer tore up a map, infuriating the judges.

Actor Sanjay Dutt has backed Shiv Sena's Aaditya Thackeray, who is making his debut in electoral politics, and said he hopes the Yuva Sena leader wins by a huge margin as the country needs dynamic young leaders.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, poked by the opposition for raising his government's Jammu and Kashmir decision while campaigning for the Maharashtra and Haryana polls, today hit back with a two-word phrase in Hindi: "Doob maro".

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has turned the tables on her macroeconomics opponents by pointing at a massive amount of bad loans in state-run banks when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power. She held "the combination" of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan responsible for putting public sector banks (PSBs) through the "worst phase".

Persons with disabilities will be exempted from the rules of the odd-even road-rationing scheme, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today. The Odd-Even scheme is set to return in the national capital for the third time from November 4-15.

Karwa Chauth: On Karva Chauth, mehndi or henna is applied on both the hands and the feet as it soothes and cools the nerve-endings of the body, preventing the nerves from tensing up.