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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) state president, Jagadanand Singh, stirred a massive controversy after he came out in support of the Popular Front of India (PFI), questioning why PFI, which has been formed to counter RSS and protect Muslims, is being termed as an anti-national organisation.

"When a community which is afraid of RSS forms an organisation to serve its own people, why are they called rioters and anti-nationals?" he questioned.

Singh further went on to claim that most of the Pakistani agents who were arrested by security agencies were either RSS members or Hindus.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now removed a section of posters in which the party misidentified a Bangladeshi scholar as an Indian freedom fighter. This comes after India Today exposed the blunder.

The AAP wanted to feature Indian scholar Mahmud Hasan Deobandi on the flex board put up several months ago at the 'freedom fighter fountain' in Delhi's Jamia Nagar. Deobandi is one of the co-founders of Jamia Millia University in Delhi's Jamia Nagar.

However, the final print had the photo of Bangladeshi Islamic scholar Maulana Mahmudul Hasan alongside photos of Indian freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Sukhdev, Shaheed Ashfaqullah Khan, and others.

The Election Commission of India has asked both Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde to submit documentary evidence to prove that they have the majority members in the Shiv Sena.

Both the group have been asked to submit reply by 1 pm on August 8 after which the Election Commission will hold hearing regarding the claims and disputes between both factions of the Shiv Sena.

The ongoing tussle over the "real Shiv Sena" reached the Election Commission, with both the Uddhav faction and the Thackeray faction writing to the poll panel staking claims to the party.

Anil Desai from Uddhav Thackeray's camp had written to ECI on multiple occasions claiming certain members of party have indulged into anti-party activity. He had also raised objections to the Shinde faction establishing any political party using the names 'Shiv Sena' or 'Bala Saheb'.

As much as Rs 20 crore have been recovered from Arpita Mukherhje - a close aide of senior Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, who is currently the Commerce and Industries Minister in West Bengal. The Enforcement Directorate officials raided Arpita Mukherjee's residence in relation with the ongoing probe with the recruitment irregularities in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) and West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE).

Along with the cash, the ED officials have also recovered 20 mobile phones from the posh residence of Mukherjee at the Diamond City complex in Tollygunge. The officials believe that these mobile phones will provide crucial links to the teachers` recruitment scam in WBSSC and WBBPE. The ED has also released a statement to a section of the media claiming that it was conducting search operations at various places in connection with the teachers` recruitment scam during which huge amount of cash was seized.

Rizwan (24), an infiltrator who came to India to kill Nupur Sharma, is associated with the Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a radical organization that surrounded the Imran Khan government in Pakistan. The organization had made a complete plan and sent him to India. Now IB, Military Intelligence, BSF and police are searching for his local connection in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. According to sources, it was Rizwan who broke the statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2021. He has also gone to jail in this case. Rizwan was apprehended from the Hindu Malkot border fencing adjoining Sri Ganganagar at around 11 pm on July 16.

It is believed that without the local help, the conspiracy of such a big incident is not possible. During interrogation on Wednesday, Rizwan confessed to being associated with Tehreek-e-Labbaik. Now such people are being searched who have come in contact with this organization through social media.