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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was again trolled on Twitter today and accused of appeasing Muslims. Her husband Swaraj Kaushal tweeted a screenshot of a post by a Twitter user who asked him to teach the minister not to do Muslim appeasement .Swaraj also retweeted some of the tweets by that personThis comes days after Swaraj was trolled and abused on Twitter over a controversy involving the issuance of passport to an interfaith couple. A Passport Seva Kendra official, Vikas Mishra, in Lucknow was transferred after the interfaith couple alleged…

The Amarnath Yatra was suspended on both Pahalgam and Baltal routes today due to inclement weather, officials said. The yatra has been suspended on both the routes as the tracks are slippery because of rain, a spokesperson of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) said here. While no pilgrim is allowed to proceed towards the cave shrine on foot, some yatris are using the helicopter services to undertake the pilgrimage, he added.A flood alert was sounded in south and central Kashmir after many parts of the state were lashed by…

After crashing to life-time lows yesterday, the rupee staged a spirited recovery to end higher by 33 paise at 68.46 against the US dollar today in line with a big relief rally in domestic equities.Propped up by heavy dollar selling intervention by the RBI, the Indian unit touched a fresh intra-day high of 68.35.This was the first gain posted by the rupee in the last four sessions.Overall forex sentiment, however, remained cautious due to rising crude prices and concerns over fiscal slippage.The rupee largely took cue from weak dollar overseas,…