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Mumbai/Bhopal [India], Sept. 19 : Condemning the terror attack on an army unit in Uri, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said Pakistan should be proclaimed a terror state and be isolated internationally.

"The time has come when it has become important to announce Pakistan as a terror state. The entire world should boycott Pakistan and should be announced as a country that promotes terrorism," BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain told ANI.

Hussain said Pakistan has become danger, not only for India, but for the entire world and added that India has tried to maintain friendship several times with Islamabad but they are not worth being friends.

Mumbai [India], Sept. 19 : Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's tongue should have had his tongue trimmed earlier, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said this could have stopped his frequent bouts of verbal diarrhea.

"Some people have verbal diarrhea and Arvind Kejriwal classifies under that category. So, I don't think Parrikar has said anything wrong," BJP leader Shaina NC told ANI.

Shaina said that Parrikar has only commented on trimming of Kejriwal's tongue, which should have been done long ago.

Yesterday, Parrikar said that Kejriwal's tongue had to be trimmed as it had grown long due to speaking too much against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and him (Parrikar).

Mumbai [India], Sept. 19 : Maintaining that every drop of blood of the 17 soldiers killed in the terror attack at an army administrative base in Uri is creating an urge to get up and do something, Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) leader Majeed Memon on Monday said that India has shown enormous patience with Pakistan and that the time has come to act.

Memon told ANI, "I think that every drop of blood of the 17 martyred jawans is urging us, demanding from us and calling us to get up and do something now, because enough is enough. We have displayed too much of patience, we have tolerated all their intrusions and cease fire violations etc too far. I think the time has come when action is needed."

Reasi (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept. 19 : Mari panchayat in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district has become the first gram panchayat in the area to be declared open defecation-free (ODF).

The panchayat has accomplished this task by ensuring toilets in every household and the ODF campaign was part of the government's Swacch Bharat Mission.

"Defecating in the open is injurious to health, as many insects, snakes and earth worms can cause bites," said Reasi's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Maheshwar Singh.

"Through indiscriminate defecation, it causes flies to enter our homes and sit on the food that we eat, causing us health problems like diarrhea, dysentery, and others," Dr. Singh added.

New Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) [India], Sept. 19 : A special cleanliness drive is carried out by railway officers and volunteers in West Bengal.

The nine-day drive at the New Jalpaiguri (NJP) Railway Station began on Saturday under the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.

Non-governmental organisations, locals and students joined railway officials in the cleanliness campaign.

"We have included all platforms, drains, and the automatic train-wash plant in our drive. We are also cleaning the FOB, (Foot Over Bridge) waiting rooms, waiting halls, waiting rooms, resting rooms and more," said senior area manager of the NJP station, Partha Pratim Seal.

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched on October 2, 2014 on the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

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