Patna: A day after the INDIA bloc alleged that the intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar was being conducted to “help” the BJP in the assembly elections due later this year, NDA partners in the state claimed that the Mahagathbandhan was “scared of losing the polls”. Union ministers Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday India is the most ancient living civilisation of the world due to the immortal ideas and philosophies of its saints and seers. Speaking at the centenary celebrations of Jain spiritual figure Acharya Vidyanand Maharaj Ji’s birth anniversary here, PM Modi paid rich tributes to his contribution…
Puri: The chariots of sibling deities – Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra, and Lord Jagannath – on Saturday reached the destination Gundicha Temple, a day after the Rath Yatra began in Puri. Gundicha Temple is considered the aunt’s place of the deities, who go there every year after leaving the 12th-century Jagannath temple, situated at a…
Varanasi (UP): Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said “there is no need for socialism in India”, adding “secularism is not the core of our culture”. Chouhan’s remarks assume significance as the RSS on Thursday called for reviewing the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the preamble of the Constitution, saying they were included…
New Delhi: With the S-400 air defence missile systems performing very well during Operation Sindoor, India is considering the option of buying two more squadrons of S-400 long-range surface-to-air missile systems from Russia, defence sources told ANI. The sources said more systems of the S-400 are being considered due to security threats in view of…
Puri: More than 500 devotees were injured during the annual Rath Yatra festival in Odisha’s Puri as massive crowd surged to pull the three chariots in the city. The incident was reported during the ceremonial pulling of the chariots in Puri. On reports of some people getting injured during the Jagannath Rath Yatra, Odisha Minister…
New Delhi: The Delhi government has extended its existing excise policy for the financial year 2025–26, as preparations continue to draft a new regulatory framework for the liquor trade in the national capital on Friday (June 27). An order issued by the Excise Department confirmed that the excise duty-based regime, first implemented in licensing year…
New Delhi: (Jun 27) The BJP on Friday appointed ‘state election officers’ to oversee its organisational elections in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Union ministers Kiren Rijiju and Harsh Malhotra, and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad have been assigned the task for the three states, respectively. The three MPs will be the central leaders…
Puri: Thousands of people pulled the ropes attached to chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings on a road from near the 12th-century shrine here towards Shree Gundicha temple, around 2.6 km away, as the main part of the Rath Yatra festival began on Friday. Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi,…
Kolkata: Union minister and BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday claimed that the alleged gang rape in a law college in Kolkata shows that female students are “not safe” in educational institutes in the state. Condemning the incident, the ruling Trinamool Congress said the police swiftly apprehended all three accused in the…
