Morning Digest | BJP wins 8 Rajya Sabha seats in 4 States, Congress 5; Rahul Gandhi warns of Chinese hostility, and more

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Rajya Sabha polls | BJP wins 8 seats in 4 States, Congress 5 with Rajasthan performance

Though these results hold wider political implications in each State, it will have little impact on the Rajya Sabha arithmetic where the BJP will continue to be far ahead of the Congress with 95 members.

Rahul Gandhi warns of Chinese hostility

The Narendra Modi government is betraying the country by ignoring the Chinese infrastructure build-up at the borders, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said on Friday. He added that the build-up pointed towards “future hostile action”.

Kashmiri Pandits living on the edge

It is easy to spot from a distance the curtains drawn on the windows. Many two-bedroom flats have their doors locked from the outside. The buzz of residents that should surround the 14 three-storey towers is missing at the protected Sheikhpora transit Pandit colony in Budgam, bordering the posh colonies of Srinagar. The families of around 300 Kashmiri Pandits, who returned to the Valley and took up government jobs after being forced to migrate two decades ago, live in these flats.

Protests in several places over Prophet remarks