Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the November 8 demonetisation of high value currency notes and warned that if it fails the country will be pushed to anarchy.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday alleged the government’s decision to cancel Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes was not aimed at curbing black money but done to “create black money.”

The National Investigation Agency early yesterday raided multiple locations connected to preacher and televangelist Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation, official sources said.

Heavily armed militants ambushed an army convoy yesterday, killing three soldiers and injuring four others in the northeastern state of Assam, police said.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has not yet given her consent to campaign in Uttar Pradesh, though the party is hopeful she would agree to their request, Rajya Sabha MP and Uttar Pradesh Congress campaign committee chairman Sanjay Singh said yesterday.

Thousands of Indonesians held a peaceful rally yesterday to promote unity, saying they were worried by signs of growing racial and religious intolerance in the country.

Pope Francis has said that an “epidemic of animosity” against people of other races or religions was hurting the weakest in society, striking a note of caution against the rise of populist nationalism.

At least 15 people are missing after a speedboat collided with a Vietnamese cargo vessel yesterday and capsized in the Java Sea, according to an official.

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamed called for a sustained push to topple scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak as thousands rallied yesterday to demand the premier’s resignation over the 1MDB corruption saga.

The British parliament this week gave the green light to new bulk surveillance powers for police and intelligence services that critics have denounced as the most far-reaching of any western democracy.

Senior Tories have urged the prime minister to drop an appeal against the high court decision which rules parliament should vote on the UK leaving the EU.

US officials have arrived in Australia to begin assessing asylum-seekers held on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and Nauru for resettlement in the United States, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday.