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The Trinamool Congress leadership today launched the third phase of 'Didi ke Bolo' (Tell Didi) initiative to reach out to the masses in Bengal. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is addressed as "Didi" or elder sister by Trinamool Congress or TMC workers.

The headmaster of a government-run school in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, was suspended after the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) complained that he was making the students recite Urdu prayers.

Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja today said that the people have started questioning the ruling BJP's silence on burning issues like unemployment and have made up their mind to show the door to the saffron party in the upcoming assembly polls.

Union Minister for Environment Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday defended the felling of trees for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poll rally, saying it has been done earlier as well but more trees were planted.

The Supreme Court has said it will pronounce order on October 23 on a plea seeking recusal of Justice Arun Mishra from the 5-judge Constitution bench which is hearing challenge to the validity of provisions related to compensation in the Land Acquisition Act.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today attacked the Congress over Article 370 and accused it of not taking a stand on nationalism because of vote bank politics.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of making India a $5 trillion economy and a global economic powerhouse by 2024-25 is "challenging" but "realisable", Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said, underlining that more reforms are on the anvil before the close of the fiscal year.

The Supreme Court has reserved verdict in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya, after concluding daily hearings in the case after 40 days today. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, declaring "Enough is enough", had said they will conclude the hearings before 5 pm today, after a lawyer asked the top court for more time for arguments in the Ayodhya case.

Arvind Kejriwal has launched his own mobile application to stay in touch with the people and share the truth. The app goes by the name "Arvind Kejriwal" and can be downloaded from play store.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, also known as Veer Savarkar's sanskar (values) are the basis for nation-building. PM Modi's remarks came a day after BJP's Maharashtra unit sought Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, for Savarkar in its manifesto for the October 21 Maharashtra election.

Six days before the by-election to the Jhabua assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Narayan Tripathi - one of the two BJP MLAs who voted along with ruling Congress and allies on an amendment bill on July 24 - announced that he was still part of the saffron party.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir denied the women from the state inheritance rights and this was a "serious human rights violation" that no one spoke about but human rights has become a "global buzzword" following the revocation of the temporary constitutional provision.

Ex-Congress leader and party's former Haryana president Ashok Tanwar today said that he will support Dushyant Chautala-led Jananayak Janta Party.

Senior BJP leader Damodar Rout resigned from the primary membership of the party on Wednesday, alleging that he was not being involved in party activities ahead of the Bijepur Assembly by-poll in Odisha on October 21.

Transport Minister in the BJP-led coalition government in Goa, Mauvin Godinho, lashed out at the Indian Navy accusing its officials of trying to "rule" Goa by proxy, by cornering large chunks of prime real estate and depriving civilians from use of land resources.