People from various cities and states decorated their houses with colourful lights and created rangolis on the occasion of Diwali.

Jitendra Singh, who was on an extensive tour of the remote and peripheral areas of the hill district of Kishtwar, visited Gulabgarh in the Paddar area and the far village of Massu, where he also inaugurated the new School set up by "Shiksha Bharti" for the village children.

According to the orders issued by Ludhiana Deputy Commissioner Surabhi Malik, firecrackers can be lit from 8 to 10 pm on Diwali and from 11:55 pm to 12:30 am on Christmas.

On whether cloud seeding was a permanent solution, the IIT Kanpur professor explained that it was alike natural rains and helps in settling down suspended dust and particulate matters present in the environment.

Hours after the Supreme Court of India directed the governments of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi to stop stubble burning in view of the deteriorating air quality in the national capital, political reactions poured in from several leaders on the issue.

Addressing a press conference in Indore on Tuesday, BJP leader Solanki said, "Congress has insulted the tribal people by making them sit on the ground during Priyanka Gandhi's rally. Congress did not even provide them chairs to sit in the meeting. BJP has never insulted them (tribal) like this. We have always made them sit on the chair."