New Delhi: Security has been heightened in and around Jantar Mantar ahead of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s visit to the site on Thursday to meet activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a hunger strike for 18 days, police sources said. Additional police personnel and paramilitary forces have been deployed at the protest venue…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday greeted people on the occasion of Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra and prayed for the prosperity of the country. During the annual yatra, chariots of Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath are pulled from the Shri Jagannath temple to Shree Gundicha temple in Puri, Odisha. Lakhs of devotees…
New Delhi: A crucial meeting of top BJP leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president Nitin Nabin, was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on Wednesday. The meeting, in which BJP national general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh was also present, comes ahead of the Parliament’s session beginning next week. There was no…
Puri: The three chariots of Lord Jagannath and his sibling deities are ready to roll along Puri’s Grand Road on Thursday as the Odisha government braces for the attendance of lakhs of devotees for a possibly rain-soaked Rath Yatra. The temple town has been blanketed by a multi-layered security cover with the deployment of personnel…
Sultapur/Harithas: A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur on Wednesday rejected a revision petition seeking forensic test of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s voice sample in a 2018 defamation case related to his remarks against Home Minister Amit Shah while another court in Hathras issued notice to him on a complaint linked to the 2020 Boolgarhi rape…
New Delhi: Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi has hit out at the Election Commission over the ongoing SIR exercise, saying the process is focused more on “exclusion” and has “played havoc with democracy” with free and fair elections having been “disturbed”. The emphasis in the ongoing SIR process is on how many to…
Kolkata: The BJP government in West Bengal sharpened its attack on the previous TMC dispensation over alleged corruption in the higher education sector, with minister Jagannath Chattopadhyay hinting that the arrest of one or more university vice-chancellors for alleged irregularities under the former regime would not be surprising. Chattopadhyay on Tuesday said the state’s immediate…
Bengaluru: Bhanu Prakash Reddy, a member of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) which oversees the affairs of the Tirupati temple, has opposed Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s proposal to change existing protocols for the ‘Nithya Aarthi’ or daily lamp-offering, potentially turning one of the most sacred Hindu religious places of worship into a political battlefield….
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday accused the previous Trinamool Congress government of neglecting Tarakeswar Dham and asserted that his administration would develop the revered shrine into an international-standard pilgrimage destination while preserving the state’s religious and cultural heritage. Addressing a religious gathering organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad at Tarakeswar on…
New Delhi: A curated selection of walking sticks and batons — symbols of both exquisite craftsmanship and authority they once represented — drawn from the reserve collection of Prime Ministers’ Museum will be displayed as part of an exhibition that opens here on Tuesday, officials said. Titled “Walking with Legacy”, the exhibition is being hosted…
