New Delhi: Eighty-five Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian military so far and efforts are on to secure the release of 20 more Indians, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday. The Indian side is expected to take up the issue of discharge of the remaining Indians when Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday slammed Canada for its “double standards,” as relations between New Delhi and Ottawa continue to deteriorate following the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada last year. “Double standards is a very mild word for it,” Jaishankar said while explaining how Canada treats other…
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, currently out on bail in a multi-crore scam, now faces fresh controversy, accused of taking expensive items from his official residence while vacating it. The Public Works Department (PWD), responsible for maintaining government buildings, has released a list of missing items from the property, sparking a political storm. Kejriwal…
Ravana, consumed by the weight of his own immortality, sought counsel from Brahma himself. Despite his countless boons, a shadow of fear always loomed over him—the fear of death, which gnawed at his soul and filled his heart with sorrow. In his restless quest to escape this inevitable fate, Ravana questioned sages and gods alike,…
Sri Tuluveshwara Temple is located at Basrur 9 kilometres from Kundapura in Udupi district-Karnataka. This town was previously known as Vasupura, since Emperor Vasu governed this region. The temple is about 1000 years old and lacks any stone wall or shelter. It is said that a banyan tree has been providing shelter to the Shiva…
New Delhi: The Congress released its first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday night, fielding Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon from the Lohardaga seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. Senior Congress leader and the party’s in-charge for Tripura, Odisha and Nagaland, Ajoy Kumar, will contest the election from the Jamshedpur East constituency….
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin has said that he does not have any documentary evidence of Sheikh Hasina resigning as prime minister before she fled the country in August amidst student-led mass protests. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, became Bangladesh’s interim government’s Chief Adviser on August 8 after Prime Minister Hasina fled to India on…
New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal is facing criminal proceedings in a defamation case over his alleged remarks over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification after the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed his plea to quash summons. A Gujarat Metropolitan court had summoned Kejriwal and AAP’s Sanjay Singh in…
The question of whether Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) should be granted statehood remains contentious, especially in the wake of recent events. The latest terror attack, which claimed the lives of seven civilians, has reignited the debate about the region’s political future, though Chief Minister Omar Abdullah remains reluctant to label it as a terror attack….
New Delhi: Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Monday said that the government is looking to amend rules to put perpetrators of bomb threats to airlines on a no-fly list. Nearly 100 flights have received bomb threats in seven days since October 14. All the threats were later found to be hoaxes. At…
