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Making a pitch for holding destination weddings within the country instead of overseas venues, PM Modi in his Mann ki Baat address on Sunday said this would promote the development of such high-end infrastructure in India and lead to job creation.

“Since the topic of marriage has come up, one thing has been troubling me off and on for a long time… and if I don’t open up my heart’s pain to my family members, who else do I do it with? Just ponder, these days a new milieu is being created by some families to go abroad and conduct weddings. Is this at all necessary? If we celebrate the festivities of marriages on Indian soil, amid the people of India, the country’s money will remain in the country,” Modi said.

Rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be framed by the Centre by March 30, 2024, minister of state (home affairs) Ajay Kumar Mishra said on Sunday at Thakurnagar in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district while attending a festival of the Dalit Matua community that has been demanding it.

“I am assuring that members of the Matua community will not lose their citizenship. They are all safe. According to the latest information I have, the laws for CAA will be framed by March 30,” Mishra told a large crowd that had gathered for the annual Ras Utsav.

Singapore high commissioner to India Simon Wong alerted the Delhi Police and the ministry of external affairs regarding a car with fake diplomatic corps number plates of his country on Friday.

Sharing images of the silver-colour car, the Singapore envoy wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “The car below bearing 63 CD plate is FAKE. This is NOT our Embassy car.”

He added that the police and the MEA were alerted regarding the matter.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has promised to set up a special information technology (IT) park for Muslim youth at Pahadishareef near Hyderabad, if the BRS is voted back to office.

Addressing a rally at Maheshwaram on Thursday, he said Congress had always treated Muslims only as a vote bank and had never worked for their development. Communal disturbances were a regular feature during the Congress regime, whereas there had been no curfews and law and order issues during the last nine years of BRS government, KCR said.

The Trichy cybercrime police booked former Tamil Nadu DGP R Nataraj on Friday for “spreading malicious messages” against the DMK government via WhatsApp. A case has been registered against Nataraj under sections of the IPC and the Information Technology (IT) Act.

Speaking at a wedding in Chennai on Friday, chief minister M K Stalin said action had been initiated against “a senior police officer”, whom he did not wish to name, for indulging in “false propaganda.” “According to him, I had stated that we (the DMK) did not need Hindu votes and that we could win without them,” said Stalin. He said some people were trying to bring down the Dravidian model administration through such false propaganda and people should use the ensuing (Lok Sabha) elections to defeat them.