Top News Of The Day: Karnataka Hijab Row: Police Carries Out Flag Marches In 3 Towns

Paramilitary forces and the police went on rounds in three towns in Karnataka as tensions simmer amid the row over Muslim students' demand for wearing hijab on college campus and classrooms. The police went on flag marches in Udupi, Chitradurga and Doddaballapura. The Finance Minister stressed that India was amongst the fastest growing economies and also about consistency in taxes. But she also used her speech to strongly attack the Congress, especially Rahul Gandhi, who had taken on India's economic crisis in his speech in Parliament this session. Growing tensions between Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool and political strategist Prashant Kishor's political outfit I-PAC has prompted the West Bengal Chief Minister to call a meeting of the party's top leaders on Saturday.