Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: As the country gears up to celebrate Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s 134th birth anniversary, a centenarian from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar who once gave up a steady job with the railways to briefly serve the Dalit leader shares how that experience continues to define his life. Despite age catching up on him, 103-year-old Laxman Khotkar still…
Lucknow: Accusing the Congress of disrespecting Dr B R Ambedkar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday alleged that the grand old party denied the architect of the Indian Constitution a memorial and did not allow his last rites to take place in the national capital. The chief minister made this assertion while addressing…
Kolkata: BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attacks on the Hindu community. In his letter dated April 13, Mahato alleged that districts such…
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to invest Rs 10 lakh crore over the next two years to strengthen highways across the country, with special focus on the Northeast, where roads will rival those in the US, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said. In an interview to PTI, he said the Centre is…
Sambhal (UP): The district administration has ordered a probe into alleged financial irregularities related to a dargah here and encroachment of land, officials said on Saturday. Officials said the probe will focus not just on the financial irregularities but also whether the land on which the dargah stands was Waqf property as claimed. According to…
New Delhi: Citing US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard’s statement about evidence that electronic voting systems are vulnerable to hacking in her country, the Congress on Saturday demanded that the government and the Election Commission come clean on the EVM issue and urged the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the matter. “It is time…
Bijapur: Three Naxalites, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday morning, the police said. It was the first encounter in the state after Union Home Minister Amit Shah last week appealed to the Naxalites to lay down arms…
New Delhi: Though the world is on edge because of the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, the Indian economy remains self-reliant and will likely suffer minimal impact, the BJP said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam said that the Mudra Yojana has greatly benefited…
Jammu: Two terrorists were killed in an ongoing operation in a snow-bound area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, senior security officials said on Saturday, reaffirming their resolve to completely root out terrorism from the region. The killings raised the number of terrorists neutralized in the ongoing operations in the Chhatru belt of the hilly…
Raigad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday praised the valour of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, emphasising that Aurangzeb, who called himself Alamgir and fought against Marathas in Maharashtra throughout his life died as a defeated man and was buried in its soil. Shah paid tributes to Shivaji Maharaj at Raigad Fort on his 345th death…
