Mumbai: Chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and rhythmic beats of traditional dhol-tasha reverberated across Mumbai on Friday as thousands of devotees bid an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final, 12th day of the festival. As immersion processions wound their way to seashores and artificial ponds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 16,154 Ganapati idols…
New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Friday that it is his duty to tell his party (BJP) what he feels about Punjab and that does not mean he is quitting the party. He also said he is going through “difficult times” but did not elaborate further. Singh said he is 84…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday rejected reports that President Droupadi Murmu returned the anti-goonda bill to the state government for reconsideration, and said the proposed legislation is currently “under consideration” of the home ministry. It was reported by a section of the media that the President had returned the bill, after…
Mumbai: Mumbai’s air reverberated with chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and the rhythmic beats of dhol-tasha on Friday as immersion processions rolled through the city, with devotees bidding an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final day of the festival. After traditional puja and aarti in the presence of large numbers of devotees at…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the gap between cities and villages in India has significantly narrowed in the last 12 years. Interacting with participants of ‘Seva Yatra’, an ongoing motorcycle rally travelling from Varanasi to Vadnagar, Modi also said that ever since his government came to power in 2014, self-reliance…
New Delhi: The details of most of the prominent voters who received notices as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Delhi have been validated through field verification and their names reserved for inclusion in the final electoral roll, poll officials said. BJP stalwart L K Advani, former vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar,…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar were ‘deshdrohis‘ (traitors) as they ‘destroyed’ India’s vote, and demanded the immediate resignation of the CEC. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha asserted that Modi and Shah would be investigated for…
Madurantakam (Tamil Nadu): AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday accused the TVK of indulging in “horse-trading” by poaching an AIADMK legislator to sustain its political standing, stating that no political party in India has engaged in such “disgraceful conduct.” Addressing an election rally in Madurantakam to campaign for AIADMK candidate Kanitha Sampath, Palaniswami…
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Thursday appointed organisational general secretaries of the party’s state units. Nabin also made party national joint general secretaries (organisation) in charge of organisational affairs of the party in various states. According to the BJP, its national joint general secretary (organisation) Shivprakash will be in charge of the party’s…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday left Lucknow aboard his specially designed “PDA Rath” for a statewide campaign ahead of the 2027 assembly polls, itching to bounce back after two successive electoral reverses. His first stop is Raebareli, a Congress bastion with Rahul Gandhi as its sitting MP. The BJP has wasted little…
