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Opposition parties on Wednesday stepped up their attack against the government over EU MPs’ Kashmir trip with the Congress describing it as the “biggest diplomatic blunder” and others asking the Centre how these foreign lawmakers were allowed to visit the Valley while Indian leaders were denied permission. It was not just opposition parties that trained their guns on the government over the visit of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to Kashmir, but BJP’s ally Shiv Sena also took strong objection to it, asserting that it is “not an international…

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday met Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence here. The chief minister reached Yadav’s residence at Vikramaditya Marg in the morning and extended Diwali greetings to him, a senior government official said. During the meeting, Mulayam Yadav’s brother and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) founder Shivpal Singh Yadav was also present. The official said it was a “courtesy meeting” to extend Diwali greetings. Adityanath had also met the 79-year-old former UP chief minister in June this year to enquire about his…