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Son of a freedom fighter, D Ravishankar decided to give away a large chunk of his fortune to change the lives of economically disadvantaged section.

"I think they're very serious about it. I think they want to do it," he said in a prerecorded interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" programme.

Once Delhi becomes a 'full state', it would witness spurt in the development work, the AAP chief said, adding his party was fighting for the dignity of Delhi’s voters.

The blast, hours after President Ashraf Ghani had visited Jalalabad, damaged shops and buildings around Mukhaberat square in the city, said governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani.

He also stated that the BSF planned to plug gaps along the country's borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh by rolling out a Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS).

According to data from Paytm, the air ticket prices on the India-Beijing sector averaged at Rs 19,459 this summer (between January and June 15 this year), boosting outbound travel from the country to the Northern neighbour.

This is one among the many scenes in Malayalam films where misogyny is glorified. And today, it seems the misogyny has been spilling from the screen to the industry.

The police did not yet have a suspected motive for the on Saturday night attack but said a 30-year-old man was in custody.

Pakistan was placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list' on June 27 after it failed to put in place measures to prevent money laundering and other illegal transactions that may be used for financing terrorism.

Railway officials, however, said most of these demands are "motivated by political reasons" and "regional considerations cannot override operational requirements of railways".

India had slipped to 88th place with a 44 percent plunge in such funds during 2016, but the latest data from the Swiss National Bank (SNB) shows an increase of over 50 percent during 2017 to around Rs 7,000 crore.

Taking to Twitter, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala wrote: GST completes 1 Year at 12 O'Clock tonight(Saturday), it remains ‘Grossly Scary Tax' for millions of traders, shopkeepers & businessmen.

The incident happened on Thursday at the 'Janata Darbar' of the CM here when the principal of a government school in the Nagaon area of Uttarkashi district made a transfer request.

A few months ago, the minister had said Darwin’s theory was wrong and the changes needed to reflect in the school and college curriculum, drawing flak from various quarters.

Investigators believed that the consignments – neatly packed in 27 packets – was smuggled in from China and Myanmar and was meant for big cities in India and Bangladesh.

Most Kashmiris believe that the manner in which the BJP masterminded the fall of the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government had little to do with the situation in the valley.