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With Punjab assembly elections approaching, State Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu has found himself embroiled in a family feud after his sister, Suman Tur, accused him of kicking their mother out of their house after their father’s death in 1986 to “quench his insatiable lust to usurp family property.”

On Friday, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, Mahant Satyendra Das, the Chief Priest at Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir stated that no political party, including the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and the Congress, really cared about Ram Mandir.

The Madhya Pradesh government has vouched for the development of Ujjain’s Mahakal Temple ahead of the Mahashivratri festival on March 1. CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan chaired a meeting yesterday to review the project and said that the temple would attain a celestial attractive form. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has vowed to develop an expanded temple complex, the first phase of which would be completed in the next 3 months.

Gone are the days when electricity connections and uninterrupted supplies were alien things in Uttar Pradesh the largest state in the country. The Yogi Adityanath government has brought some groundbreaking changes in Uttar Pradesh’s electrification and the power generation and distribution sector in the state.

A special POCSO court in Araria, Bihar completed the trial in a rape case involving a six-year-old in 4 days and awarded the death penalty to accused Mohammad Major (48) on Thursday. Besides handing over the death sentence to the convict for rape, the Araria POCSO Court special judge Shashi Kant Rai also directed the District Legal Services Authority to pay compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the victim from the Victim Compensation Fund.

Can you recall Neeraj Prajapati? Neeraj Ram Prajapati was an artist and an idol maker who had become the target of a frenzied Muslim mob in January 2020. Neeraj was a part of the pro-CAA tricolour march in Lohardaga, Jharkhand on January 23, 2020, when a Muslim mob had attacked the rally. Neeraj was hit on the head with an iron rod by the violent mob on 23 January. He was forced to hide in his shop to save his life. On reaching home, he lost consciousness and fainted.

On Thursday, the Rashtriya Ekata Abhiyan in Nepal held demonstrations against China in Biratnagar, Morang, Khabarhub. The civil society of Nepal protested against excessive Chinese interference in Nepal’s internal affairs and encroachment of Nepali territory at various places along the northern border.

The Tata Group on Thursday officially took over the Air India, AI express, and AI SATS as the government transferred 100% shares to Tata’s wholly-owned subsidiary Talace Pvt Ltd. The govt also transferred the management control of the company to the new owners. With this, the existing board of Air India resigned, and a new board was constituted led by the Tatas, which took the control of the airline.

The Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday held a press conference discussing the burning issue of 17-year-old Lavanya’s suicide over the forceful conversion to Christianity in Tamil Nadu. In the presser, BJP Mahila Morcha President and MLA from Tamil Nadu Vanathi Srinivasan stated that the state BJP unit is not content where the probe is headed and has demanded a CBI investigation into the matter.