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West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Friday said that Aadhaar and PAN cards are not proof of citizenship.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that the Statue of Unity, the world's tallest statue at Kevadiya in Gujarat, would create an "economic ecosystem" worth Rs one lakh crore in coming years.

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday filed a charge sheet against former Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd CMD Sanjay Singal and others in a multi-crore money laundering case linked to alleged bank fraud, saying he was the "mastermind" behind the diversion of loan funds.

The Delhi Police on Friday appealed to protesters on the Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch to move their ongoing demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act to another location in the "larger interests of the public".

Hitting out at the Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat who said de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has questioned who would deradicalise attackers of Muslims and Dalits.

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday demanded that the Maharashtra government revoke Mumbai University's action against actor and dramatics teacher Yogesh Soman over his criticism of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said BJP's announcement of candidates for the February 8 Assembly elections was nothing but a "bina dulhe ki baraat" (wedding procession without the bridegroom) as they could not find a Chief Ministerial candidate.

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Friday put an end to the speculation of her joining the Congress for the coming Delhi assembly elections, saying that she is "not interested" in politics.

All the 44 bills tabled in the sixth Delhi Assembly till February last year were passed, according to election watchdog Association For Democratic Reforms.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday took a dig at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar over their tussle and described them as "two jokers of circus".

The chief secretaries of nearly half a dozen non-BJP ruled states stayed away from a meeting called by the Ministry of Home Affairs to discuss the National Population Register (NPR) today, sending other functionaries in their place instead. Nobody from West Bengal made an appearance.

The Delhi High Court on Friday questioned the centre as to how many government bungalows were being occupied by persons who are no longer MPs, MLAs or bureaucrats and for how long.

Reacting to the controversy that erupted over Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's remark that iconic Congress leader Indira Gandhi used to meet gangster Karim Lala, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said he shouldn't have made the comment.

The government has issued a travel advisory asking citizens to follow certain precautionary measures while visiting China in the wake of the outbreak of an infection there because of a new strain of virus which is causing respiratory problems.

Biocon founder Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was conferred with Australia's highest civilian honour, the Order of Australia honour, at a ceremony in Bengaluru on Friday.