Congress leader and former union minister Salman Khursid has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted his own private success story with Pakistan and was pursuing a "policeman's foreign policy" which was a disaster.
Two women were killed and 10 other people were injured in a stampede during the Rath Yatra in Odisha's temple city of Puri on Saturday, police said.
Youths pelted stones at police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Sekidafar and Safa Kadal areas of Srinagar's old city area immediately after the Eid-ul-Fitr prayers ended here in the morning.
Muslims offered prayers at mosques, greeted each other and relished the 'seviyan' sweet dish. From Gujarat to Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, Eid festivity gripped areas with sizeable Muslim populations.
A sustained campaign is on to haul back the date of India's first rebellion against Western colonialism by a good 274 years - from Barrackpore in eastern India to what is now Goa.
The Congress on Saturday condemned the incidents of waving of Pakistani and Islamic State (IS) flags in Srinagar as it termed the Narendra Modi-led NDA government's Pakistan policy is not only "directionless", but an "international joke".