In an interview with Hindustan Times, Nadda while talking about the BJP exuded confidence on the party’s poll prospects in Himachal and Gujarat.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been part of the Bharat Jodo Yatra and is currently walking across districts in Karnataka while the BJP too has kicked off its poll campaign in the form of Janasankalpa Yatra, which was in Ballari on Wednesday.

The students called off their protest on Tuesday evening after Karnataka ministers V Somanna and ST Somashekar met the students and assured them that “their demands will be considered”.

The protest is specifically against the recommendation of a parliamentary panel to make Hindi the medium of instruction in central institutes.

The couple, identified as Sona Singh and Sunil Singh, own a three-storey building in KR Puram, said police. When a bulldozer approached their house, they tried to stop the demolition by standing along the wall outside their house with a bottle of what looked like petrol

The accused, Munjtajim alias Musa Qureshi, is a resident of Chand Bagh. He was apprehended on Monday from Gayatri Nagar, Meerpet, Telangana, they said.

The two antique idols of Yoganarasimha and Ganesha belonging to Sri Venugopala Swamy temple, Alathur, Thiruvarur district, were traced to the Nelson-Atkins Museums, Kansas City, Missouri, the US. They were stolen from the temple about 50 years ago and replaced with fake images, the Idol Wing claimed.

In an order, Justice PV Kunhikrishnan quoted the famous words of Shri Narayana Guru, which says this is the place where people reside in brotherhood without any differences based on any caste or religion and propagated the principles of secularism.

“Various factors unique to the army’s employability, remote locations of employment and operational commitments were considered to arrive at a definite time-bound road map for inducting EVs,” said one of the army officers, asking not to be named.