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Mamata Banerjee is certainly in the thrall of a poetic muse and has not been watching the finance minister trying to put the economy back on track.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said those who did not respect independence activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar must be thrashed publicly.

There is no record of Mahatma Gandhi ever visiting Kolkata's iconic Victoria Memorial in his lifetime, nor of him saying anything about the monument. But now, nine thought-provoking feature films inspired by Mahatma Gandhi have come a-calling. On screen. To mark his 150th birth anniversary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated a memorial in the honour of the victims of two Air India crashes at the foothills of the Mont Blanc mountain in France in which several Indians, including Homi J Bhabha, regarded as the father of India's nuclear programme, were killed.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has come out in support of party colleague Jairam Ramesh on Friday, saying "demonising" Narendra Modi was "wrong" and the prime minister should be praised for doing the right things. This comes after Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi also supported Mr Ramesh.

Two months after a former army soldier was declared a foreigner and sent to a detention camp amid work on the National Register of Citizens list in Assam, a Border Security Force officer and his wife are likely to face similar action on the orders of a foreigners tribunal.

A Class I student of a government school in Chattisgarh's capital Raipur was raped allegedly by three 10-year-old schoolmates, police said on Friday.

The world's best scientists are trying to create a miniature Sun on Earth to tap its fusion energy, costing over Euro 20 billion and India is a full partner in this mega project. Called The ITER Project or The Path, it has Made in India written all over it.

A self-help group was allegedly found using animal fat to prepare mid-day meals for students at two schools in a Madhya Pradesh village during a surprise inspection by food inspectors today, sources said.

The Supreme Court on Friday told Nirmohi Akhara, which has said the lawsuit of "Ram Lalla" be rejected and the disputed land in Ayodhya be given to it as it has been the deity's sole devotee, that the claim of "shebait" (devotee) "can never be adverse to the deity".

Congress's Rahul Gandhi and leaders from various opposition parties will visit Jammu and Kashmir today where restrictions have been imposed since the central government withdrew special status under Article 370 and split the state into two Union Territories earlier this month.

The CBI has contacted five countries for information on shell companies and bank accounts to identify the manner in which kickbacks were allegedly routed in the INX Media case over ten years ago, sources said. Former Union Minister P Chidambaram and his son, Karti, are among those accused in the alleged scam involving jailed media baron Indrani Mukerjea's firm.

After incidents of cloudbursts, the Uttarakhand government sent teams of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to carry out rescue and evacuation operations in the region.

In a major relief to entrepreneurs and startups, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced that the 'angel tax' provision will be withdrawn for startups and their investors.

India rolled back an additional levy on foreign funds and announced other measures to boost economic growth.