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New Delhi: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member and former railway minister Mukul Roy was suspended from the party for six years for anti-party activities on Monday.

Party secretary general Partha Chatterjee said, TMC's disciplinary committee discussed Mr Roy's attempts to weaken the party and recommended punishment for him to party supremo Mamata Banerjee.

Earlier in the day, Mr Roy tendered his resignation from the party's working committee. He also told reporters that he would resign from the Upper House of Parliament and give up the primary membership of the party after Durga Puja.

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has thanked External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for  "recognising" his party's idea of opening IITs and IIMs in the country.

He was referring to Swaraj's hard-hitting speech at the United Nations General Assembly, where she gave the examples of these premier institutes as India's achievements and said Pakistan, in contrast, had "produced terrorists".

Rahul tweeted, "Sushma ji, thank you for finally recognising Congress governments' great vision and legacy of setting up IITs and IIMs." 

New Delhi: The VHP has assailed former vice-president Hamid Ansari for attending an event organised by the women's wing of Popular Front of India which is facing probe for alleged links with terror outfits.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad Joint General Secretary Surendra Jain said Ansari stands exposed after attending the programme.

"He was spreading dissatisfaction in the Muslim community even when he was holding the post of Vice President," he said.

New Delhi: Haryana police have registered a case of gang rape and harassment against two employees of a private school in Sonipat district after the survivor sent an anonymous email to the Prime Minister Office. 

In her email, the survivor, a minor, has alleged that she was gang-raped by the duo and was forced to accompany them to a hotel.

The girl alleged that she informed her class teacher as well as the principal and director of the school about the wrongdoings but no action was taken against the accused and she continued to face the trauma.