India

Congress MLA KC Padvi added a few lines of gratitude to his voters while Varsha Gaikwad invoked Dalit icon B R Ambedkar as he took oath as a result of which they were pulled up by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

According to the report, while Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim have shown maximum improvement, states like Gujarat have not shown any improvement vis-a-vis 2018 rankings.

Taking a swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for opposing the citizenship law, the minister said the TMC supremo was the one to protest against illegal immigration in the state in 2005 when she was an MP.

The CCTV recording of the December 15 incident is yet to be procured by the police, who said they need it for investigation.

Bhagwat was addressing a function organised by NCC Group which felicitated Deendayal Research Institute, set up under the guidance of Bharat Ratna late Nanaji Deshmukh, with the 'NCC Samashti Seva Puraskar'.

Abhay was sitting on the tractor while his father Kirti Kumar Chandrvanshi was maneuvering it to till his field.

The incident took place at a temple situated inside an abandoned monastery at Gulani, a remote village in Nawada district.

Shah stressed the force to ensure all logistical requirements to the troops on border and asked them to make use of modern gadgetry and technology in securing the Himalayan front that witnesses subzero temperatures at most locations.

A spokesman for the London-listed company, a master franchisee of US group Domino's Pizza Inc, later said Bauernfeind, 51, was on holiday in Mauritius with his wife and daughter when the accident occurred.

Gogoi said the Congress government in Assam headed by him had set up detention camps in the state as per a Gauhati High Court order.

Accusing the Centre of fuelling unrest and disrupting communal harmony in the state, Congress leader Ashok Gehlot asked the government to revoked the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Several parts of north India have been reeling under a spell of severe cold wave over the last week.

Drones were used to keep a hawk-eyed vigil, especially in areas where violence had broken out last week after Friday prayers.

Former Australia captain Mark Waugh has lashed out at New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner for his lacklustre performance in the ongoing Boxing Day Test being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

Controversies around former CJIs notwithstanding, Justice (retd) Gogoi was the first head of the judiciary against whom a stunning claim of sexual harassment was made by a former apex court employee.

Janne-Mette Johansson said in a Facebook post that she has been directed by the Bureau of Immigration authorities, who again came to her hotel, to leave the country at once.