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Over 12 hours after three policemen including a deputy superintendent were charged with murder for allegedly torturing a 35-year-old man to death inside a police station in western Uttar Pradesh's Hapuro one has been arrested.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who was scheduled to address a rally in Haryana today to gather support for her party in the election to the state legislature, will not attend the event, her party tweeted. Her son and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will instead address the rally at Haryana's Mahendragarh today, the party tweeted in Hindi.

Trade differences between India and the United States are narrowing, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today, and expressed hope that the two countries will enter into a deal soon.

Sunni Waqf Board lawyer Ejaz Maqbool has taken exception to reports that the board had offered to drop its claim to the disputed temple-mosque site in Ayodhya and, in a detailed statement released today, contradicted statements made on Thursday by Shahid Rizvi, another Sunni Board lawyer

Indira Gandhi was a follower of Veer Savarkar, said his grand-nephew, Ranjeet, who also stated that everything that the former prime minister did was "against Nehru and Gandhi's philosophy".

Delhi Zoo: A man who inexplicably went into a lion enclosure at the Delhi Zoo and spent several moments sitting perilously close to the beast, has been rescued.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address election rallies in Hisar and Gohana in Haryana while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address a public meeting in Mahendragarh today.

A BJP rally in Rampur in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday evening held an unusual sight even by the standards of political campaigns in the state - an hour-long magic show put together by local politician Ajay Diwakar

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to government recommending Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde as his successor, say sources. Justice Gogoi, in his letter, has reportedly recommended that the government start the process of appointing Justice SA Bobde as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Bobde is number 2 in seniority after Justice Gogoi.

Prateek Hajela, the man who led the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, will be transferred immediately to Madhya Pradesh, the Supreme Court ordered today.

A day after Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan broke down at an election rally saying he has now been accused of stealing goats and hens, his bitter rival and BJP leader Jaya Prada hit out at the politician.

In an ongoing war of words over the economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a swift and sharp response to Manmohan Singh's comment that the government is "obsessed" with fixing the blame on its opponents. "Recalling when and what went wrong during a certain period is absolutely necessary," Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters in the US.

The controversy over whether VD Savarkar should be accorded with Bharat Ratna has found resonance in Haryana. While the issue has been an emotive one in Maharashtra, owing to Savarkar's connection with the state, the BJP and Shiv Sena have been aggressively backing the move. In Haryana too, the BJP has tried to corner the opposition over the issue.

The Rajasthan government has filed an appeal against the acquittal of the accused in the killing of Pehlu Khan in 2017. The appeal was filed on Monday in the Rajasthan High Court against the decision of a court in Alwar that acquitted all the six accused in the case.

The BJP on Thursday hit back at former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for being critical of the ruling party's "double engine" model of governance and challenged him to show courage to seek votes on Congress's model of governance.