A Pakistan International Airlines aircraft was today turned away before it could enter the Indian airspace as the airline 'did not inform' the aviation authorities about a change in its flight plan.

The Kuala Lumpur-bound PIA flight from Peshawar had to be re-routed to Lahore over 'take-off weight issues' requiring the airline to submit the changed flight plan to the Indian authorities which it did not, government sources said.

When flight PK 894 was about to enter the Indian airspace, the commander was informed that the air traffic authorities in India had not received the revised schedule.

The flight was later allowed to overfly the Indian airspace after the Indian authorities received the revised plan.

The flight later landed in Lahore with reportedly around 250 passengers.

A PIA spokesperson tweeted that 'PK894 was re-routed due 2 weight restrictions at Peshawar airport. There was no resistance from any quarter'.

'Due restrictions of take-off weight from Peshawar, PK 894 this evening was re-routed to operate via Lahore for Kualalampur,' a statement posted on his Twitter handle said.

'The re-routing was done well in advance and all concerned had been duly informed. There was no resistance from any quarter, whether local or international for landing at Lahore.

'After refueling the flight has already departed for Kualalampur. Such re-routings are an accepted feature in commercial aviation (sic),' the statement said.

There were reports in the Pakistani media that the aircraft was not allowed to enter the Indian airspace without assigning any reason.

Facing heat over recent deaths of over 20 cows at a bovine shelter in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh government today suspended a veterinary doctor for alleged dereliction of duty.

"Veterinary Assistant Surgeon Dr K P Rai, who was in-charge of Dugakondal Veterinary Hospital, has been suspended in connection with death of at least 22 cows at the state-aided Kamdhenu Gau Sewa centre at Karramad village in Durgkondal development block of the district," an official in Raipur said.

"The action was taken based on a preliminary probe report in connection with the incident," he added.

On Sunday, Kanker District Collector Shammi Abidi had said that 22 cows had died at the shelter since August 1.

As per the order issued by Animal Husbandry Department in Raipur, Rai was suspended under the Chhattisgarh Civil Service (Conduct) Rules, 1965 for 'failing to take preventive measures and dereliction of duty in connection with the consistent sudden deaths of cows at the shelter home'.

The state government had already ordered a probe into the death of cows, besides weekly inspection of all shelters in the state following a controversy over the incident.

A seven-member probe committee headed by the chairman of Krishi Sthai Samiti, Zila Panchayat Kanker constituted to probe the incident, has been asked to submit its report to the state government within seven days, the official said.

Prima facie, the administration found that negligence on the part of shelter home management led to the incident.

As violence continued in the Kashmir Valley, Army chief General Dalbir Suhag will visit Jammu Wednesday to take stock of the situation. 

At least five policemen were injured in a grenade attack by militants on a police post in Pulwama district of South Kashmir tonight. 

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is leading her Republican rival Donald Trump by nine points, a latest national poll said today.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has appealed against NADA's decision to give a clean chit to Narsingh Yadav.   

What impressions the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi would have carried back after the talks in Delhi in the weekend remains to be seen. Indian sources see China shifting its stance on the Nuclear Suppliers Group membership. But the spin is unrealistic, blogs MK Bhadrakumar Read more

Last rites of martyred CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar performed with full state honour at Barni Ghat  on the banks of the Ajay river in Bihar. Pramod Kumar, Officer of the 49 battalion, died after sustaining a bullet injury to his neck in the terrorist attack in Srinagars Nowhatta area. yesterday. He was promoted as CO of the battalion on July 12, a day before his daughter's seventh birthday.


Kumar had unfurled the national flag, and given a speech where he had urged his fellow commandants to do their best and uphold the integrity of their country. Kumar had also read out a message by DG CRPF for jawans on the occasion.CRPF sources, as quoted by the Hindustan Times report, said that the news of the militants had reached the officer as the ceremony was about to conclude.

The officer along with his team had rushed to the spot, where he was shot an hour into the gun battle.

Michael Phelps answered the Olympic swimming question we all wanted the answer to: Do swimmers pee in the pool? Read his answer. 

Union minister for Finance Arun Jaitley spent an hour explaining to President Pranab Mukherjee about the Constitutional amendment 122 on the Goods and Services Tax and its passage in Parliament. The President, who has handled the finance ministry portfolio in the UPA government, congratulated Jaitley, and said he wanted the government to speed up the process especially since 16 state assemblies have to pass it. More than the BJP, the President seems to be thrilled over the aspect of signing the bill. Parliament will take up the GST bill during the Winter session. President Mukherjee's term ends in July 2017.

The normally dapper Prime Minister had a sartorial faux pas when he was spotted with a red band of colour around his head. Many of the invitees to President Pranab Mukherjee's At Home held in the Ceremonial Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan yesterday, noticed that the PM seemed to have had his silver locks coloured in a dubious red hue and worse, he had the same colour in a band around his forehead.

The Prime Minister shook hands with almost all the 1800 invitees and spent a few seconds with each of them, but none of them asked him about new Lochinvar look.

When this correspondent asked the Prime Minister, he said that during his I-Day speech at Red Fort he had worn a wore Rajasthani turban, and the color had run on this head. He also said that nobody had pointed it out to him till then.

What was that about belling the cat?

Police say that a man attacked passengers on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two people, reports AP.

The assault occurred early Tuesday near the village of Sulz, in westernmost Vorarlberg province.

Police say the attacker, a 60-year old German national, appeared mentally confused.

A 19-year old man suffered wounds to the stomach and back. The other victim, a 17-year old male, had a throat injury.

Both were hospitalized.

Police ruled out any connection to Saturday's incident on a Swiss train that left both the attacker and a victim dead after the man attacked passengers with a knife and burning liquid.

We want to be in Rishi Kapoor's shoes today...

The actor tweets, "@chintskap  With Chef supreme Sanjeev Kapoor,the lovely Alyona Kapoor,at "11 Bridge" Sydney,for dinner.A Neil Perry restaurant!"

Amnesty International India reacts to the charges against them. Amnesty says they had taken all requisite permission to hold the event. "organising the event to defend Constitutional values is being branded anti- national and anti-India. The FIR against Amnesty does not name anyone in particular, but it is difficult to speak freely due to fear of Hindutva groups. We had taken all the requisite permission to hold the event," Amnesty Executive Director said.

The Bengaluru police registered a first information report against Amnesty International India on Monday under various Indian Penal Code sections, including sedition, in connection with alleged raising of independence slogans by pro-freedom Kashmiris who entered into heated arguments with a Kashmiri Pandit leader for hailing the Indian Army.

The FIR has been registered under IPC Sections 142 (being member of an unlawful assembly), 143 (whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), the police said.

A panel discussion on Saturday had turned chaotic as some pro-freedom Kashmiris, most of whom were youngsters and students, entered into heated arguments with a Kashmiri Pandit leader for hailing the Indian Army.

The event was organised by Amnesty International India at United Theological College in Bengaluru.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara had on Sunday said the intention and background of those involved will be investigated.


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A top Kerala official's comments that staring "annoyingly" at a woman for 14 seconds can land a man in jail as per certain sections of law has gone viral on social media with a state minister terming them "irritating".

"There are sections in law to jail a man for annoyingly staring at a woman for 14 seconds. Please use it (the provisions in the law), if it is the case," State Excise Commissioner Rishiraj Singh said.

He made the comments at an event organised by a charitable trust here two days ago. Urging women to fight the hooligans disturbing them, Singh had also asked them to carry knives and chili spray in their bags to protect themselves from such elements.

"Are you carrying a knife in your bag? Are you carrying chilly spray? Time is over for taking such precautions" he had said. While Singh's words drew varied reactions on social media, Kerala Sports Minister E P Jayarajan termed them as "irritating".

"The remarks are irritating. If a bureaucrat makes remarks which are not in law, certainly the minister concerned will examine it and necessary steps will be taken," he told reporters.

Singh's comments drew humorous reactions on social media, with jokes such as -- how a man who went to see a woman at her home following a marriage proposal ended up in jail for staring at her for more than 14 seconds.

Some also expressed doubts over the points made by Singh. They asked, "What will happen if a man blinks while staring at her continuously for 14 seconds?... what about a man who stares at a woman wearing a sunglass?". Rishiraj Singh had courted controversy in July last year for not saluting the then Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala at a passing out parade in Thrissur.

In the wake of increased instances of cyber attacks, Governor Raghuram Rajan today said Reserve Bank is improving its capabilities and also urged the lenders to strengthen their systems.


"There have been cyber incidents in the recent past. I think it would be overly complacent for anyone of us to say we are well prepared to meet all cyber threats," he said at the annual Fibac event.


"Too many access points are left unmonitored, too many people share passwords or have easily penetrated passwords, and too little surveillance is maintained of vendors and the software they create," Rajan said.


Calling for a cultural change on the cyber security front, the Governor urged the lenders to take a "fresh look" at their security architecture.

Tamil Maanila Congress leader B S Gnanadesikan, who is a close confidante of the party's chief G K Vasan, recently wrote a letter of apology to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for quitting the party in 2014, a move observers say is a disguised plea for re-entry.

"It was my bad luck that I could not meet (you) last year but kept my decision away from you to which I regret," he said in the two-page letter.

Gnanadesikan inquired about Gandhi's health and regretted not making his reasons for leaving the All India Congress Committee clearer to her.

"It was a mistake: not meeting you and explaining to you the reasons for my decision to quit the AICC and join the TMC,' said Gnanadesikan in his letter which observers say is an indirect plea seeking readmission into the Congress.Gnanadesikan's departure from the TMC, if it comes about, will be a political jolt to G K Vasan; it would also make be the second such loss to the party after S R Balasubramaniam joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

GK Vasan, president of Tamil Maanila Congress is in New Delhi to meet leaders of Left parties, as well as President Pranab Mukherjee.

As a courtesy, Vasan is also planning to visit Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the Gangaram Hospital where she is undergoing medical
treatement.

Vasan, a former Union Minister is upset with his total rout in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls and is now planning to make efforts to merge his party with the Congress.

In fact, Vasan has been quietly consulting his confidantes (very few as many of them have left his party) whether they should rejoin the Congress or wait and watch till the Tamil Nadu panchayat polls are held in October.

In a shocking case, a 42-year-old doctor from Satara district of Maharashtra, who was arrested last week in connection with the murder of an anganwadi worker, has "confessed" to killing five more people including four women between 2003 and 2016, and burying them in his farmhouse, police claimed today.

Dr Santosh Pol from Wai spilled the beans on the multiple murders during interrogation in the case of 47-year-old anganwadi worker Mangala Jedhe's death, following which police exhumed four bodies, apart from Jedhe's, from his farmhouse last night, Sandip Patil, Superintendent of Police, Satara said.

Pol, dubbed as 'Dr Death', is in police custody till August 19 after his arrest on August 11 for allegedly kidnapping and murdering Jedhe, president of Maharashtra Purva Prathmik Shikshika Sevika Sangh, on June 16.

On the motive behind the murder of five women and a man, Patil said that illicit relations and greed for gold and money might have prompted Pol to execute these killings. According to police, Pol and his aide Jyoti Mandre, a nurse who allegedly has an illicit relation with the accused, had kidnapped Jedhe and killed her by administering a lethal overdose of a medicine and buried her near Pol's farm house.

During investigations in the missing complaint about Jedhe, police found that before her disappearance she was in touch with Pol and had threatened to expose his criminal activities. Subsequently, as the investigation progressed, Mandre confessed to killing Jedhe and burying her near Pol's farmhouse.

"We then laid a trap and arrested Pol (on August 11), who was absconding after the murder," Patil said. "Later, Pol showed us the place, where he had buried Jedhe," he said. "Pol then confessed to have killed five more people --four women and a man--besides Jedhe between 2003 and 2016," Patil said.

Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, has collared seven women ministers to visit border areas to tie rakhis to jawans during raksha bandhan.  

Maneka tweets that this year the ministers will celebrate the day with the jawans. "An activity on this scale has not been organised in recent years. It is for the 1st time, so many Ministers will visit the border areas. As representatives of the people of India, the ministers will carry the message of solidarity and support to the jawans on raksha bandhan," Maneka said.

She said the jawans feel happy when they get to meet people because they usually work in isolation and have minimum public interaction. The WCD ministry has dispatched rakhis to all the seven ministers. The rakhis have been prepared by poor women artisans and carry the logo of the WCD ministry's #BetiBachaoBetiPadao campaign.


Image: The picture of the rakhi tweeted by Maneka Gandhi with the logo of the government's Beti Bachao Beti Padhao campaign.

Diplomacy be damned, PM Modi's defence minister Manohar Parrikar upped the ante in anti-Pakistan rhetoric equating Pakistan to hell.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi openly came out in support of "freedom" for Balochistan and "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir", Parrikar on Tuesday said, "Going to Pakistan or to hell is the same thing."

He added that since Pakistan has failed to inflict major damage, it is looking to inflict smaller wounds.

Meeting underway at the Home Ministry to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. NSA Ajit Doval, Home Secy, Director Intelligence Bureau and Home Minister Rajnath Singh present at the meeting. 

Former J-K CM Omar Abdullah has just tweeted saying, "Six  protestors dead in Kashmir in 24 hours but WTH let's go sort out Balochistan since we are doing such a good job in J&K at the moment!!!"

This comes in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech where he took a dig at Pakistan without naming the neighbour -- for glorifying terrorists and succumbing to a life influenced by terrorism.

Delivering a speech from the Red Fort on Indias 70th Independence Day, Modi also touched upon Balochistan and Gilgit, where Pakistani forces have been accused of using excessive force.

The mention of the two troubled areas is in line with the governments recent decision to raise rights violations to hit back at Pakistan for stoking unrest in the Valley.

Three persons were killed and five injured in fresh clashes between stone-pelting protestors and security forces in Magam area of central Kashmir's Budgam district today, taking the death toll in the ongoing unrest in the Valley to 61. A group of youth pelted stones at a CRPF vehicle at Aripathan in Magam area this morning. In the retaliatory action by the security forces, three persons were killed while five others sustained injuries, a police official said.

Curfew, meanwhile, remained in force in entire Srinagar district and Anantnag town while restrictions were in place in the rest of the Valley as normal life remained paralysed for the 39th consecutive day. The official said curfew and restrictions were imposed to thwart the plans of separatists to organise sit-in protest against the civilian killings at main market places of the Valley. 

JUST IN: Several injured in clashes in Maniktala, North Kolkata, police and RAF deployed. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Independence Day didn't inspire Arvind Kejriwal. The Chief Minister of Delhi was filmed dozing during the address at Red Fort, where he was seated near VIPs like Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress.  Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech is likely to be remembered for its footnotes. The strategic portents of the Prime Minister's concluding remarks on Pakistan in which he contrasted how Indians mourned for Pakistan's terror victims while "the other side, which glorifies terrorists', are certain to be debated for months, and perhaps years, to come.

Two elements of the speech are key: the almost toss-away reference to Balochistan, the first ever in an Indian Prime Minister's Independence Day speech, and another to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), and the regions of Gilgit and Baltistan.Prime Minister Modi's language marks a grim cul-de-sac in his thinking, which has traversed the distance from a hawkish polemic before he took office to mawkish Bollywood band-baaja-baraat when he visited Lahore last December.

Read Praveen Swamy's column here.

A report submitted to the Supreme Court shows that 769 gold pots, valued approximately at Rs 186 crore, are missing from Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

A report submitted by former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai said the disappearance of the gold pots weighing 776 kg from the vast treasures found in the vaults of the Kerala temple needed a "detailed probe', reported The Hindu.

The apex court had asked Rai in October 2015 to submit the audit report.As per the report, gold worth Rs 186 crore in the form of 769 gold pots is not traceable. It added that 30 percent of the gold sent for melting and purification was lost.

"Gold worth Rs 2.50 crore was lost because of change in ratio adopted for purification. Moreover, the residual quantity of gold was not recovered from the contractor which lead to a loss of Rs 59 lakhs,' The New Indian Express quoted sources as saying.

"There was a lack of transparency in Kanikka counting. Gold and silver worth Rs 14.18 lakh had not been entered in the Nadavarav register, which is illegal,' as per the report."Silver bar with the value of Rs 14 lakh was found to be missing,' the report added.

Did boisterous celebrations over an Olympic victory by the world's fastest man lead to a false alarm about gunfire and a panicked evacuation of Kennedy Airport?

That's one of the possibilities police were exploring Monday as they reviewed security camera footage and interviewed witnesses about the chain-reaction scare that rippled through two airport terminals Sunday night in the minutes after Usain Bolt sprinted to a gold medal victory in the 100-meter dash.

An internal New York Police Department briefing document, obtained by The Associated Press, said a preliminary video review showed that some travelers had started to act "extremely disruptive" while watching the Olympics on televisions in Terminal 8.

That set off a chain reaction, with other people running away from the commotion, the document said. Then, at 9:34 p.m., about seven minutes after Bolt's run, police received an anonymous 911 call from a woman reporting gunshots in the terminal. It isn't clear how the celebration might have come to be misinterpreted a few minutes later as gunshots.

Investigators were also unsure exactly how the commotion spread across the airport campus to Terminal 1, where rumors about a shooter, combined with the sound of alarms and sight of armed police, convinced some people that an attack was underway.

Albert Salas, 31, a freelance cinematographer, said when he heard a series of loud bangs at Terminal 1 at about 10:10 p.m. while waiting for a flight to London, he was sure they were gunshots. "People started running and yelling, and some threw themselves on the floor," he said.

Salas began recording video with his mobile phone. It captured screams, people dashing for the exits, and a team of police officers sweeping through the terminal, guns drawn, shouting at people to get down. "They were asking, has anybody seen the shooter?" Salas said. No one had, because none existed, police said. No guns, shell casings or spent rounds were recovered. No witnesses actually reported seeing someone with a gun.

Seven decades ago, when India secured independence, many were sceptical. Winston Churchill was one of them. Churchill had vociferously opposed granting independence to India. His argument was that Indians were not equipped to handle it. "If independence is granted to India, power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India," he is said to have famously commented.

Read BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav's column here.


Image: Sarojini Naidu (extreme right)  -- freedom fighter, poet -- who went on to become first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state.

"As I write this, the dalits (India's most oppressed group, our "untouchables') are doing a special "freedom' march to Una, a small town in Gujarat where last month four young men were brutally beaten up with iron rods by a mob of cow vigilantes for skinning dead cows. These young men are from the "chamar' or leather tanning caste. Even now, if ordered to move a carcass '" and that means any dead animal ranging from cows to goats to dogs or cats -- they are compelled by societal norms to do so, regardless of whether they've earned a doctorate in economics or history. The unwritten rule: once a chamar, always a chamar. Yes, we've come a long way economically, but our feudal system is alive and well. And not just kicking. It's maiming, raping and killing, too."

Read the column on the Guardian as India celebrates 70 years of independence.

In an embarrassment for the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Odisha government, senior party leader and the states minister for small and medium enterprises, Yogendra Behera, yesterday, asked a personal security officer (PSO) to tie, and  later untie, his sandal straps during a programme to unfurl the national flag in Keonjhar district, reports the Indian Express.

The PSO bent down to loosen, and subsequently tighten, the straps in the presence of thousands of people, as also TV cameras.

Asked about the incident by local reporters, Behera said, I am the VIP. I have hoisted the flag; he (PSO) has (done that).

The minister later reasoned that he had a knee problem and it was all right for the PSO to loosen his sandal strap.He was helping me out, Behera added.

Calling it a shameful incident, Odisha BJP spokesperson Sajjan Sharma, There is no distinction between government staff and personal staff in the Naveen Patnaik administration. The ministers thinkOdisha is their fiefdom.

In the morning, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had committed a gaffe during his Independence Day address in Bhubaneswar when he referred to famous lawyer Madhusudan Das as a freedom fighter.

Around eight Dalits were severely injured when a mob allegedly attacked them and 12 of their community members at Samter village near Una, while they were returning home after attending a protest rally in Una town of Gir Somnath district on Monday evening.

The incident took place around 5 PM. Police lobbed teargas shells to disperse the crowd and resorted to mild lathi-charge, even as the victims alleged that the force did "nothing to help' them.

The victims also claimed that the attackers were residents of Samter village, who wanted to "avenge' the arrest of 12 persons in connection with last month's Una Dalit flogging case.

The 20 victims, who are from Bhavnagar district, had gone to Una on their motorcycles along with others. They were returning home after hoisting of a tricolour by Radhika Vemula, mother of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula who had committed suicide in Hyderabad, and Balu Sarvaiya, father of one of the victims of Una Dalit flogging incident, in the presence of JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.

The Congress gave its thumbs up to the idea of India raising rights violations in Balochistan in response to Pakistan's Kashmir rant, bringing about a political convergence that may decisively shift the national policy on the recalcitrant neighbour.

After PM Narendra Modi made a strong reference to Balochistan in his Independence Day speech, former foreign minister Salman Khurshid made a distinction between POK and Balochistan. He said Balochistan was Pakistan's internal matter, even warning that raising the restive province in public would weaken India's claim on POK. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unprecedented reference to Balochistan in his Independence Day speech may help shine global focus on rights violations in the restive province but risks getting India bracketed with Pakistan as interfering in another nation's internal affairs, experts have warned.Modi had on Friday told an all-party meeting that Pakistan must answer to the world for its "atrocities" against the people of Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and asked the foreign office to lobby globally on behalf of the people of PoK.But his address today marked the first time an Indian Prime Minister had referred to the Baloch struggle against Islamabad from the ramparts of the Red Fort.Modi said the people of Balochistan, Gilgit and PoK had expressed "deep gratitude" for his remarks, and that he was thanking them in return.

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Any question about her son's position in the party is answered with tact. As Indira Gandhi's younger daughter-in-law, Maneka Gandhi had never shied away from publicly declaring her ambitions about seeing her husband, the late Sanjay Gandhi, as India's future prime minister. But the once brash model-turned-journalist-turned-politician has mellowed over the years and knows that diplomacy is the road to longevity in politics.So she just smiles fondly when asked if Varun Gandhi ought to be given a bigger role in Uttar Pradesh by the BJP. "I am not going to talk about this at all. I don't make the decisions about what happens in the BJP.'I twist the question, hoping to elicit a suitable answer this time. Does she think he is being sidelined by the party? "I can't even answer this,' she replies. But then the doting mother in her starts to list some of his achievements.

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"One of the first things the police made Anirban (Bhattacharya) and me do, after we surrendered to the Delhi Police in late February, was to fill up a questionnaire: "What does azadi mean to you?' Funny as it seems, this was one of the questions that inaugurated our police interrogation. I was quite baffled. Was the Delhi Police playing a game with us, putting us through an essay writing competition? Quite scared at the time of arrest, I was expecting to be grilled about my supposed Pakistan visits, Jaish-e-Muhammad connections, 800 phone calls to all "troubled' parts of the world, the plan to hold meetings commemorating Afzal Guru across universities. So after all the grandiose and outrageous claims made about me on television, had it all come down to this '" what I thought of freedom?"


Read student leader Umar Khaled's column here.

The Empire State Building turned Orange, White and Blue to mark India's 70th Independence Day. The iconic building in New York looked magnificent in the Tricolour. 

"If I stand up, this government will feel the heat". Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, was politically trolled by none other than his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav.