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General Elections 2019: The Tripura police have filed a case against state Congress chief, Pradyot Dev Burman, for slapping a man in police custody.

Two of India's most prominent billionaires are endorsing the same politician in the country's general election. And it's not a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party.

China said today that it was bracing to hold the next Wuhan-style summit with India this year despite India's decision to boycott Beijing's second Belt and Road Forum to be held in Beijing next week.

Industrialist Ratan N Tata met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on April 17, sources said.

Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi quit the party last night, a day after publicly expressing her resentment in tweets. She was upset with her party bosses for taking back workers who had been thrown out for misbehaving with her. "Lumpen goons" get preference in the Congress over those who had "given their sweat and blood", she wrote in her tweet.

Happy Hanuman Jayanti: This year, the Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on April 19, coinciding with Good Friday. Hanuman, son of wind-god Pawan, is described to have superhuman-like qualities in the scriptures.

Union Minister Manoj Sinha has been caught on camera making a mafia-style threat of "taking care of critics within four hours" while campaigning in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, where he is the BJP candidate for the Lok Sabha elections. Manoj Sinha is a three-time parliamentarian of the BJP.

Two Indian Navy warships, namely the destroyer INS Kolkata and tanker INS Shakti, would be taking part in Chinese international fleet review to be held at Qingdao on April 23.

With more than two decades of animosity behind them, Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati will address a joint rally today in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri. The spectacle of the bitter enemies sharing the stage is really the essence of the opposition gathbandhan (alliance) in Uttar Pradesh to take on the BJP in the national election.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said the grand alliance of opposition parties wants to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power as the PM has never compromised on corruption.

A day after debt-laden Jet Airways stopped its operations indefinitely, the airline asked its employees to not speak to the media about the crisis. The deep turbulence has put 20,000 jobs at stake and has left many of them seeking jobs at other airlines with pay cuts.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi claimed on Thursday that there is an undercurrent in favour of the Congress and Narendra Modi who has "failed" as prime minister will lose the 2019 general elections.

Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, who is contesting the national election after declaring he wouldn't, says he has no plans to retire, but doesn't need to be prime minister either. "I will sit by Rahul Gandhi's side if he becomes Prime Minister," he said on Thursday.

Former IPL chief and tainted cricket administrator Lalit Modi has said he will sue Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his "all thieves have Modi in their surnames" remarks at an election rally recently.

At loggerheads for decades, SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati are scheduled to share the dais at a joint rally of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in the Samajwadi Party citadel of Mainpuri today.