FM Nirmala Sitharaman to News18: “I may not be able to comment on a foreign head of state [calling India a dead economy]…It is the cynics and naysayers within India who worry me.”

Following a huge controversy over him “threatening” a woman police officer who was cracking down on illegal excavation in Maharashtra’s Solapur, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has said he was only trying to prevent an escalation in the situation.

It’s an official holiday in Jammu and Kashmir today for Eid-e-Milad. But as per the lunar calendar, Milad is tomorrow (September 6). The decision to mark it today has triggered a massive controversy in the Union territory.