As the controversy over the AI video on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother snowballed on Friday, the Congress doubled down and said there was no disrespect to anybody and claimed it was about a parent educating her child.

Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was shot dead, will be honoured with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour, posthumously, US President Donald Trump announced at the Pentagon on Thursday.

Senior DMK leader and State Minister Durai Murugan on Thursday dismissed the proposition of ‘Special Intensive Revision’ in Tamil Nadu, asserting that the state is not like Bihar and here people were “politically aware” and could not be misled.