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New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh has accused the Centre of ‘slowly but surely’ undermining the values that a democratic polity should fiercely protect. He has called for a meaningful national debate on it as also the failure of ruling dispensation in fulfilling its promises made.

Releasing a book titled “Shades of Truth” by former union minister and Congress leader Kapil Sibal, he hoped this is the beginning of the national debate that everyone needs.

In a scathing indictment of the Modi dispensation, Singh said key national institutions vital for good governance are experiencing unprecedented new strains, India’s neighbourhood is far less secured than it was in 2014 and its ties with neighbours deteriorated in the last four years.

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has likened former chief minister of the state with Mughal emperor Aurangzeb who had jailed his father. The scathing attack on Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was made in view of treatment meted out to his father by him.,

“There is a character in history who kept his father in jail. This is the reason why no Muslim names his son Aurangzeb,” he said.

New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir Police adopted a new strategy of nabbing stone pelters by planting its men among them at historic Jama Masjid downtown to arrest the real culprits in action.

After the Friday prayers today, a mob started pelting stones at police and CRPF personnel but there was no retaliation this time and not even a single teargas shell was lobbed or baton charge initiated by the law enforcing force.

As the crowd swelled to over 100 people and two chronic stone pelters started leading the agitation, the first tear gas shell was lobbed at the mob dispersing them.

New Delhi: In view of the dissolved Assembly of Telengana, the Election Commission (EC) will meet on Friday to take a call on whether polls in Telangana can be clubbed with the upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram.

The commission has the necessary infrastructure to club the Telangana polls with those of the other states, said an official aware of the developments, but will need to verify whether the electoral rolls in the state are updated.