New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the need to protect the youth from drug addiction and said a strong family support system is needed to combat the vice. “For building a substance-free India, families must be strong as an institution,” he said in a video address to the ‘Ashwamedha Yagya’ event organized…
Devbhumi Dwaraka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated ‘Sudarshan Setu’, the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge of 2.32 km, on the Arabian sea connecting Beyt Dwarka island to mainland Okha in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district. Modi began his day by offering prayers at Lord Sri Krishna temple at Beyt Dwarka. He later inaugurated the four-lane…
Karwar (Karnataka) : Calling Chief Minister Siddaramaiah “Siddaramulla Khan”, BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde has alleged that Karnataka is becoming bankrupt under the Congress government led by him, which wants to loot the state to garner votes. Hitting back at Hegde, CM Siddaramaiah dubbed BJP as “anti Muslims” and “anti minority”. “Modi brought more than 370…
Chennai: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday said most of the political parties in Tamil Nadu have urged the EC to conduct the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in single phase in the state. At the end of his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu to review poll-preparedness, Kumar said the Election Commission (EC) would come…
New Delhi: TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his associates, accused of land grab and sexual assault under coercion in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, would forcibly take MNREGA wages from poor tribal families and torture them for voting against the party, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has learned. Complainants told a three-member National Commission for…
Lucknow: Twently two people, including women and children, were killed after a tractor-trolley in which they were travelling overturned and fell into a pond in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district on Saturday morning, police said. They said 15-20 people were injured in the accident that took place on the Patiyali-Dariyavganj road under the Patiyali police station…
New Delhi: The newly enacted laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Act — to completely overhaul the criminal justice system in the country will come into effect from July 1. However, the provision related to cases of hit and run by vehicle drivers will not be implemented immediately. The…
Madurai (TN): Symbols of the Pandya dynasty, aspects of the famous Meenakshi temple and a sculpture of a bull representing the Jallikattu sport will part of the redeveloped Madurai railway station, the Southern Railway has said. Construction work of the station will be completed by November 2025 and will promote the city’s culture and heritage,…
Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked the Congress saying the grand old party cannot think beyond ‘parivarvaad’ (nepotism), corruption and appeasement and the country’s development has never been on its agenda. After independence, the Congress ruled the country for a long time but its focus was only on forming the government and not…
Guwahati: The Assam Cabinet has given the nod to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935 in a bid to end child marriage, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. “This Act contained provisions allowing marriage registration even if the bride and groom had not reached the legal ages of 18 and 21…
