Samajwadi Party senior leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan said madrasas don’t produce people like Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse or 2008 Malegaon blasts accused Pragya Singh Thakur.
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Former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian suggested that India’s growth was overstated by about to 2.5 per cent. Referring to his research paper, he said the average annual growth between 2011-12 and 2016-17 may have been about 4.5 per cent, not 7 per cent.
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The US president Donald Trump blamed India, China and Russia for allegedly not doing enough work to curb pollution while asserting that the USA has become one of the ‘cleanest climates’.
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Targeting Pakistan on the harassment meted out to guests at the Indian high commission in Islamabad during an iftar party, the Shiv Sena, on Tuesday, likened the Pakistanis who harassed the guests to “drunken monkeys”.
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Senior Congress leader from Kerala AP Abdullakutty praised Narendra Modi for the BJP-led NDA’s landslide victory in the Lok Sabha election. Abdullakutty said the win showed that people have accepted Modi’s development agenda because the PM had adopted Gandhian values.
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Senior Congress leader and former Union minister M Veerappa Moily, who contested from Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha constituency and lost, blamed the Janata Dal (Secular) for his defeat. He said JD(S) supporters didn’t back him despite being allies.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while thanking the voters of Varanasi for re-electing him as their MP, said this Lok Sabha election has ended caste-based politics.
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad called Rahul Gandhi’s decision to quit from the post of Congress president “suicidal”. The former Bihar chief minister, who is serving jail after being convicted of the fodder scam, said Gandhi’s resignation would be like falling into the BJP trap.
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