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The high command has assured the rebel leader of not taking any action and sought his support for the Ashok Gehlot camp, sources added. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is said to decide on the 'final formula of reconciliation'.

Rajasthan crisis still looming, the Congress on Friday witnessed a fresh front opening in Punjab with the party's warring factions in the state seeking each .

Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 95.

In a tweet on Wednesday when the 'bhoomi pujan' was carried out, Rahul Gandhi had said, "Maryada Purshottam Lord Ram is the ultimate embodiment of supreme human values. He is the core of humanism embedded deep in our hearts".

The document, which was uploaded on the Defence ministry's website, was removed on Thursday morning following publication of a media report based on it.

Meanwhile, the condition of Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and opposition Congress leader Siddaramaiah is stable at a private hospital in the city's eastern suburb.

BJP president Dilip Ghosh accused the TMC government in the state of "disregarding Hindu sentiments" by clamping a lockdown on a day when 'bhoomi pujan' ceremony was being organised in Ayodhya.

Mahajan, who watched the live telecast of the 'bhoomi pujan' ceremony in Ayodhya with other party leaders here, told this to reporters.

State unit chief Haldhar Kant Mishra said party supremo Deve Gowda has asked him to expand JD(S)'s base and also to prepare itself for contesting all the constituencies.

The two-language policy had been in place for the last five decades and its continuation would take the state backward by 50 years, state BJP leader Vanathi Srinivasan claimed.

The Sena's clarification came amidst reports quoting Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, chairman of the trust, as saying that  no money was received from the Shiv Sena as promised,

The Minister of state for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs alleged the chief minister had allowedhis office to be used by those who indulged in "anti-national activities and betrayed the nation."

The Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) had earlier said that she was admitted for "routine tests and investigations".

The BJP got four MPs of TDP merged with it overnight in Rajya Sabha. That merger is right and the merger of six MLAs with the Congress in Rajasthan is wrong, Gehlot tweeted in Hindi.

Former HRD minister and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor welcomed it, but feared the new policy may make education unaffordable for the poor.

They joined the BJP at a function on Wednesday which was attended by Chief Minister N Biren Singh and BJP state president Prof S Tikendra Singh.