India has said Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments on Indian Muslims are "unacceptable". Posting on X on the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, Khamenei had clubbed Indian Muslims with those in Gaza, talking about the sufferings in Myanmar, Gaza or India. "We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India by the Supreme Leader of Iran," the foreign ministry has said in a statement.
The West Bengal government officials and the agitating junior doctors are presently finalising the draft minutes of the meeting to address the RG Kar hospital impasse on Monday night, according to sources. After four unsuccessful bids to initiate a dialogue to resolve the more than a month-long deadlock, a delegation of 35 agitating junior doctors arrived at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Kalighat residence for the crucial talks at 6.20 pm. The meeting, which was originally scheduled at 5 pm, began around 6:50 pm.
Hitting out at the Opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that in the first 100 days of his third term, the Opposition hurled insults at him but he decided to ensure the completion of the government's agenda.
Addressing AAP workers at party headquarters on Sunday, Arvind Kejriwal had stated that he would step down as chief minister amid corruption allegations against him and vowed not to return to the post till he got a "certificate of honesty" from the people.
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN stated today. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralysing disease has never been stopped. The other is Pakistan.
On Monday, a freight train was derailed in Sonabhadra when debris from an adjacent hillside fell onto it. According to an official, no injuries or fatalities have been reported thus far. Railway personnel have reached the accident site and are currently working to remove the debris and repair the track.
At an investors' summit in Gandhi Nagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the country is preparing base for the next 1000 years, adding that the country is not focusing on just reaching the top but to sustain the rank.
Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, R Ashoka on Sunday demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the recent violence in Mandya district, citing alleged involvement of Kerala-based persons with links to banned outfit such as Popular Front of India (PFI) in it. Clashes broke out between two groups during a Ganesh idol procession in Nagamangala town in Mandya district, following which mobs went on a rampage, targeting several shops and vehicles leading to tension on Wednesday night.
The Samajwadi Party has alleged that a business group was "grabbing land" of the most backward Manjhi caste in Ayodhya, stating that its goons "indulged in hooliganism with farmers", a charge the business conglomerate has denied. After Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and his party posted videos of a clash between two groups and claimed that it was related to land grabbing, the local police said it was taking legal action in the matter and added that the allegations were "not true". The verified X handle of the Samajwadi Party Media Cell posted two clips, and a news report about an alleged scuffle between employees of the the business group and farmers in Ayodhya. In the post accompanying the clips, it alleged, "In Ayodhya, under the instructions/partnership/protection/direction of Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath, big industrialists are forcibly occupying lands of Dalit/backward class farmers." "After the Ram Mandir verdict, Ayodhya has become a hotspot for property and all the BJP/Chief Minister Adityanath/big industrialists want to wash their hands/take a bath/occupy land in the Saryu," it said in Hindi. The handle also shared an X post by party chief Yadav in which he shared a clip of the scuffle.
Trump has returned to his Mar-a-Lago resort after shots were fired at his golf course, an AP source stated. FBI says former president Donald Trump was subject of an "apparent assassination attempt" at his Florida golf club, AP reported today. "No place" in US for political violence; directed that Secret Service has "every resource" to protect Trump, says Biden, reports AP.
