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New Delhi: Prime Minister NarendraModi has hailed BJP’s victories in Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh assembly bypolls.

“My gratitude to the people of Sikandra for once again supporting BJP. Our commitment to serving India's villages and taking them to new heights of progress is unwavering. I congratulate CM Yogi AdityanathJi and the BJP UP Team for their stupendous efforts”, he tweeted.

He also expressed happiness over the party's improved performance in a bypoll in West Bengal.

New Delhi: India and China have emphasised on the need for maintaining peace and tranquility along the border pending a final resolution of the boundary question. 

The countries held the 20th round of their special representative talks, undertaking a "comprehensive review" of earlier rounds and agreeing that an early settlement of the boundary question served the fundamental interests of both countries.

This was the first round of talks between the special representatives — national security adviser AjitDoval and China's state councillor Yang Jiechi — since the Doklam standoff on Bhutanese territory earlier this year.

New Delhi: On the eve of Christmas celebrations, international sand artist SudarsanPattnaik created the world's biggest sand Santa-face on the Puri beach of Odisha.

The Santa face with the message "world peace" is 25 feet high and 50 feet wide and will be placed in the Limca Book of World Records. He has also created a sand sculpture of Jesus Christ in front of the Santa face. He has used about 600 tonnes of sand including coloured sand.

The master sculptor was assisted by 40 of his disciples at the Sudarsan Sand Art Institute of Puri and they took 3 days (35 hours) to build up the mammoth structure.

New Delhi: Union Minister KirenRijijuhas said that welfare of the constabulary and adequate budgetary allocation for police forces in various states is a "neglected" subject and is not given priority, 

The minister of state for home said this while inaugurating a 'Visionary Summit' hosted by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD).

He asked the police brass to think of measures like having an independent police complaints authority, so that police credibility is enhanced and the common man does not have to go to a minister seeking justice and for getting a policeman to act.