A tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Speaking to ANI, Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the legislative assembly to Red Fort and was used by the Britishers to avoid reprisal while moving freedom fighters. Goel further informed that the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which was used as Central Legislative Assembly after shifting of capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912, was turned into a court in 1926 and Britishers used this tunnel to bring freedom fighters to the court. "When I became an MLA in 1993, there was hearsay about a tunnel present here that goes till Red Fort and I tried to search for its history. But there was no clarity over it," he stated. "Now we have got the mouth of the tunnel but we are not digging it further as all the paths of the tunnel have been destroyed due to metro projects and sewer installations," he added. The assembly speaker added that i...
Targeting China, India gave an indirect attack on Thursday at UNSC ; that countries should refrain from placing unwanted "blocks and holds" on requests to designate terrorists, cautioning them that any double-dealing and making distinctions between terrorists might come back to haunt them in future.
"Throughout the world, it's a collective wisdom that terrorism in all it's forms and manifestations must be condemned. There cannot be selective denouncement or justification for any action of terrorism, regardless of the motivation behind such act's," S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs said in the UNSC, ponting towards the repeated attempt's to shield Islamic Terrorist Masood Azhar, who continues to live in Pakistan.
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