Puri (Odisha) The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration is expecting a footfall of about 25 lakh people during the world-famous Puri Rath Yatra festival of Lord Jagannath, an official said. The rath yatra festival will begin on June 20. This was stated by SJTA Chief Administrator Ranjan Kumar Das. Talking to PTI, Das said the administration…
Santirbazar (Tripura): BJP national president JP Nadda on Saturday said the country has witnessed unprecedented development under Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has “changed the fortune of India” in the past nine years. He cited infrastructure building, good governance and all-round development as the benchmarks of the Modi government. “Earlier, India was known for corruption,…
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday launched an all-out attack against the Congress following its remarks on renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, saying the party’s inability to accept the fact that there are leaders beyond “one dynasty” is a classic example of “political indigestion”. The ruling party also slammed the Congress, saying they…
New Delhi: Assets worth more than Rs 45 crore of a former NSG officer and his family members were attached in a case linked to alleged forgery of tender documents issued for undertaking civil works at the garrison of the ‘black cats’ commando force in Gurugram’s Manesar, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Saturday. A…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the Modi government of “ruining” PSUs and snatching lakhs of government jobs, alleging that the ‘Make in India’ initiative is only a propaganda to enhance the image of the central government. “By snatching lakhs of government jobs, ruining PSUs..is part of which toolkit, Narendra Modi ji,”…
Imphal/Kolkata: Two civilians were injured as mobs clashed with security forces overnight in Imphal town and attempts were made to torch the houses of BJP leaders, officials said on Saturday. In separate incidents, automatic gunfire was reported from Kwakta in Bishnupur district of Manipur and Kangvai in Churachandpur district through the night. An attempt was…
New Delhi: The remnant of cyclone Biparjoy is expected to bring rain over parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh starting Sunday, and help the monsoon advance over east India currently in the grip of a severe heat wave, meteorologists said on Friday.. The monsoon’s progress has remained sluggish since May 11 in the absence…
Thiruvananthapuram: Malayalam filmmaker and Sangh Parivar fellow traveller Ramasimhan Aboobakker announced that he has quit the BJP. Ramasimhan, as he is widely known after he renounced Islam in December 2021 and changed his name from Ali Akbar to Ramasimhan Aboobakker, was a state committee member of the BJP till he resigned all his organisational responsibilities in…
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday blamed the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal for the violence during the nomination process for the panchayat polls, calling it “a very dark chapter” in the democratic history of the country. It alleged that the State Election Commission and the police remained unresponsive to the incidents of violence which…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday hit out at the government over renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society here as Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society, calling it a “petty act” and asserting that legacies don’t get erased by renaming buildings. Nearly a year after the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya was inaugurated on the premises…
