Meerut (UP): Police have stepped up security around a mosque in the Kesarganj Mandi area here after a video circulated on social media showing a Hindu outfit leader announcing plans to recite the Hanuman Chalisa near the mosque on Tuesday, officials said. Additional police personnel have been deployed outside the mosque, and patrolling has been…
Ujjain: The voluntary removal of a portion of Ujjain’s historic Shahi Masjid will continue on Tuesday, a mosque committee member has said, stressing that the Muslim community respects the road-widening project, undertaken ahead of the 2028 Simhastha Kumbh Mela. After discussions between the local administration, Shahar Qazi and committee officials, an agreement was reached to…
Bhubaneshwar/Balasore: The Odisha government has shifted around 1.4 lakh people to safer locations over the past four days, as a fresh wave of flooding affected several districts, officials said on Monday. Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said the government has evacuated 1.4 lakh people from low-lying areas across 7,834 villages under 1,360 gram…
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday held a sit-in outside the Vikaspuri police station demanding the registration of an FIR against Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Verma for slapping a 22-year-old man during a road inspection in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar. AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj, along with party workers, sat outside the police…
New Delhi: The Union environment ministry on Monday said a set of measures to combat pollution in the coming winter in the national capital has been finalised, which includes staggered office timings, restrictions on vehicular and industrial emissions and curbs on dust-generating construction and demolition activities. The development came during a meeting held on Monday,…
Kolkata: BJP national president Nitin Nabin will visit Gangasagar in South 24 Parganas district and participate in a youth conclave in Kolkata on Monday, the final day of his two-day visit to West Bengal. According to the revised schedule shared by the party, Nabin will board a helicopter from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport…
New Delhi: Bank unions on Sunday deferred their three-day nationwide strike following assurance from the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on their demands, including a five-day work week. The strike call beginning Monday was given by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), which coincides with half-yearly closing. With the postponement of the strike, banks would…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the 2016 surgical strikes were India’s decisive response to the pain of terror attacks and presented a bold example of the country’s counter-terrorism policy. Asserting that India follows a policy of zero tolerance against terrorism, he said in his monthly broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat’ that the…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday mounted a strong defence of the Election Commission amid the escalating political row over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, blaming former CM Mamata Banerjee for the deletion of 27 lakh names and asserting that neither the BJP nor the poll panel could be held…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay will launch the Thaaimaman Thanga Mothiram Thittam, a welfare scheme, on Monday, under which the government will provide a one-gram gold ring to babies born in state-run hospitals. Sources here on Sunday said the CM will arrive in Madurai to launch the scheme at the Government Rajaji…
