New Delhi: In an effort to ensure the punctuality of trains during foggy weather conditions, the Railway Ministry on Monday advised various zones and divisions to monitor train movements on a real-time basis along with passenger amenities. Officials said that necessary instructions in this regard have been issued to general managers of Northern Railway, North…
Mumbai: Ruling allies BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena will contest 137 and 90 seats, respectively, in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls. A seat-sharing pact was revealed by Mumbai BJP president Amit Satam on Monday, following hectic parleys a day before the deadline for filing nomination papers closes on December 30. Both parties will allocate…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a meeting at the BJP office in Salt Lake here to take stock of the party’s organisational preparedness for the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections in 2026 after landing here on a three-day visit to the state. The meeting was held for more than two hours, where…
Our Correspondent In a significant development that vindicates months of investigative reporting and sustained pressure by Orangenews9, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), acting on a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has imposed a two-year ban on a registered cricketer for alleged age manipulation. It is learnt that the ban…
Markandeya, the venerable sage, continued his narration of the vision divine, recounting how he had been enlightened by the Boy-God, who was none other than Lord Vishnu Himself. The Eternal Lord spoke thus to the astonished sage: “O noble one, even the gods and seers cannot comprehend the vastness of My glory. You are endowed…
Ashtabujakaram, also called Ashtabuja Perumal Temple, is located in Vishnu Kanchi (Chinna Kanchipuram) in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. This temple is one of the 108 Divya Desams, the sacred temples glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham by the Alwars between the 6th–9th centuries. The temple was originally built during the Pallava period around the 8th century…
Jaipur: Skipper Shardul Thakur ticked all the boxes, right from winning the toss to blowing the Chattisgarh top order with a match-winning four-wicket burst, as Mumbai cruised to a wicket victory to complete a group stage hat trick in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Monday. At the Jaipuria Vidyalaya ground, Shardul won the toss…
New Delhi: The government is seeking over USD 30 billion from Reliance Industries Ltd and BP as compensation, alleging the partners built larger-than-required facilities at the KG-D6 fields and subsequently failed to meet natural gas output targets, sources said. The government claimed its submissions before a three-member arbitration tribunal that on November 7 concluded hearings…
London: IPL founder Lalit Modi on Monday apologised for calling himself and Vijay Mallya the “two biggest fugitives” of India in a video posted on social media and said that his statement was “misconstrued”. In the now-deleted video from Mallya’s 70th birthday celebrations in London, Lalit Modi joked about the pair’s status as the “two…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet eminent economists and sectoral experts on Tuesday to seek their views on the upcoming Budget, a senior government official said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to present the Union Budget for 2026-27 on February 1. She will present the Budget against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainties…
