Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s betrayal of the Marathi manoos paved the way for the BJP to win the Mumbai civic elections and install its mayor. The BJP has officially maintained that the next mayor of Mumbai will be from Mahayuti (the BJP-Shiv…
Hyderabad: The Telangana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sharply questioned the political and ideological relevance of the Communist Party of India’s (CPI) proposed centenary celebrations in Khammam, describing the event as a symbolic exercise disconnected from the political and social realities of modern India. Reacting to the event organized at Khammam…
Hyderabad: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for electing 125 of its candidates as corporators in various Municipal Corporations in the western state, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said the parties that lost the polls should introspect. Addressing a press conference, Owaisi said the AIMIM party is gearing up to contest Municipal polls in Telangana…
Malda: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off the country’s first Vande Bharat sleeper train between Howrah and Guwahati (Kamakhya) from Malda Town station in north Bengal. He also virtually flagged off the return Guwahati–Howrah Vande Bharat sleeper train from here. Modi interacted with children and school students inside the train. Developed to meet…
Singapore: Ships of the First Training Squadron of the Indian Navy, INS Tir, Shardul, Sujata and the Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi, are engaged in a range of training, professional and social programmes during their port call here. The four ships arrived in Singapore on January 15, as part of a Long Range Training Deployment…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has emerged as a key strategist behind the BJP’s urban resurgence, steering the party to a landslide victory in the civic polls, proving that he can deliver a historic mandate with minimal involvement of the central leadership. The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance has come to power in 25 of the…
Ramu Chilimella In Sanatana Dharma, our ancestors (Pitrus) are revered as silent guardians of the family lineage. When they are remembered with gratitude, their blessings sustain harmony, prosperity, and continuity. However, when ancestral duties remain incomplete or remembrance is neglected, scriptures describe a condition known as Pitru Dosha. Pitru Dosha is not a curse, nor…
New Delhi: The defence procurement board (DPB) on Friday gave its go-ahead to an Indian Air Force proposal to buy 114 French-origin Rafale jets to shore up its combat fleet at a time it is grappling with a shortage of fighter squadrons, officials aware of the matter said. The approval by the DPB, headed by…
New Delhi: The sesquicentenary of ‘Vande Mataram’ will be the dominant theme of this year’s Republic Day Parade, with enclosure backdrops along the Kartavya Path displaying old paintings illustrating the opening stanzas of the National Song and floral artworks at the main stage paying homage to its composer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. In a departure from…
Nainital: In the ongoing dispute regarding the future of the Ganga aarti held at the Triveni Ghat in Rishikesh, the Uttarakhand High Court permitted the Shri Ganga Sabha to continue performing the ritual, subject to certain conditions. The vacation bench of Justice Ashish Nainthani delivered this decision on Friday, taking into account the public interest…
