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New Delhi: UP government has given special focus to Kumbh and religious tourism in its second budget for the financial year 2018-2019.

The government is making all-out effort for stressing the cultural and spiritual importance of the Kumbh at the national and international level and a "Uttar Pradesh Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran" has also been set up for proper holding of the mela, Finance Minister Rajesh Agarwal said while presenting the budget. 

New Delhi: After Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC)’s warning to people in the state against “invasion” of Hindutva forces, Union minister KirenRijiju has appealed to the people to keep politics and religion separate. 

Rijiju, who is also in charge of BJP’s election affairs in Nagaland, was at Mon town in Nagaland to launch the campaign for the BJP-National Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) alliance.

“Politics was for fulfilling human physical wants and needs of people through developmental activities and religion lies in one’s soul and mind for internal peace. So I urge all people not to mix religion with politics,” the BJP leader said. 

New Delhi: A Pakistani-origin man accused of arranging sham marriages in the UK claimed he had no idea why his wife was texting men two weeks before their wedding to tell them what their future wife's birthday, job and place of birth would be.

Ayaz Khan (32) and Jurgita Pavlovskyte (25), allegedly set up fake weddings for of least 13 South Asian men with Lithuanian women to give the men the right to live and work in the UK owing to the women’s EU citizenship. The fake grooms — 11 from Pakistan, one from India and one from Bangladesh — were all desperate to stay in the UK after their visas expired, jurors heard.

New Delhi: Union minister and senior BJP leader PonRadhakrishnan has asserted that Tamil Nadu is no longer a peaceful state, but is turning out to be a "training centre" for extremists.

Addressing a meeting organised by various Hindu outfits and the BJP to pay homage to those killed in the serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore on February 14, 1998, he alleged that Tamil Nadu is "becoming a camp and training centre" for such forces.

"Tamil Nadu is no longer the peaceful state ("amaidhipoonga")... Naxalites, Maoists, Tamil extremists and Islamic terrorists have joined hands against the administration, which was evident during the jallikkattu agitation last year," the Union minister of state for finance and shipping alleged.