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New Delhi: After former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s mourning getting over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat to address a public meeting in Jujwa village in the Valsad district. The Prime Minister will witness a collective e-Gruhpravesh of beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) - a flagship scheme of the NDA government which envisions 'Housing for All.' Over a lakh houses have been completed in Gujarat that the PM will facilitate e- Gruhpravesh.

New Delhi: Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Punjab cabinet colleague of Navjot Singh Sidhu, suggested him to “say sorry” to the families of slain soldiers for upsetting them by hugging the Pakistan Army chief.

He asserted that the families of soldiers who died in the line of duty were justified in expressing their displeasure over the cricketer-turned-politician’s hug.

“Sidhu sahab is my senior colleague. I cannot dictate him. I can only suggest that he can gracefully say sorry to the families of martyrs who expressed unhappiness (over embracing the Pakistan Army chief). I think there is no harm in saying sorry. He is a wonderful person and a senior minister,” Bajwa said here.

New Delhi: While the Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party is getting ready for polls, it has spent more than Rs 1 crore on Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje’s Gaurav Yatra from August 4 to 10. The yatra covered 23 assembly constituencies in the state’s Udaipur division, so far.

The saffron party informed the Rajasthan High Court about the details of the amount spent on the yatra on Tuesday during a hearing on a public interest litigation filed by a lawyer on August 6.

New Delhi: After the police team arrived in Dangapara reportedly receiving information that cows were allegedly being slaughtered , they were attacked in which  about half-a-dozen policemen were got injured by the villagers in Jharkhand’s Pakur district.

Three policemen were reportedly injured in the morning as villagers allegedly chased the team away, and two others were injured later in the day when some pelted stones at the officers near Maheshpur police station.