At a special Aaj Tak event held on Saturday, Ravi Shankar Prasad flipped through a copy of India's original Constitution, and drew the audience's attention to pictures depicting Hindu deities.
There were, the Union Law Minister said, images of Ram returning to Ayodhya, of Krishna chanting the Bhagavad Gita to Arjun, and of other gods. On the other hand, he pointed out, there was no Babar, and no Aurangzeb (Two of the best-known rulers from the Mughal dynasty).
In a big setback for the Congress party ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections, its candidate Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination from Madhya Pradesh was rejected during the scrutiny process.
Political tensions are rising in the Karnataka government over portfolio allocations, with several ministers openly expressing discontent.
A forty-eight-year-old man was arrested by the Karnataka Police for allegedly issuing a death threat to the state's Home Minister Priyank Kharge on social media.
Kerala is facing a health alert following the death of a four-year-old girl from a Shigella bacterial infection at a Kozhikode medical college.
