Khandwa: Akbar Taj, a visually impaired Muslim bhajan singer and poet from Madhya Pradesh, has expressed happiness on being invited for the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya to be held on January 22. Taj (42), who is a resident of Hafla Beepla village in Khandwa district, told PTI that he will reach Ayodhya in…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government’s decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state. Holding the PIL challenging the remission as maintainable, a bench of Justices B V…
New Delhi: Inspired by the principles of Mahatma Gandhi, the government has started work on the principle of ‘one district one medical college’ to convert all districts in the country into ‘Ayushman’ districts, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday. Mandaviya was speaking at the inauguration of a Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)…
Bhubaneshwar: A boat carrying Union minister Parshottam Rupala got stuck in Odisha’s Chilika Lake for around two hours on Sunday evening allegedly because of nets laid by fishermen in the waters, an official said. However, the administration sent another vessel which rescued the Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying and took him to…
Jeddah: India and Saudi Arabia on Sunday signed a bilateral agreement under which New Delhi has been allocated a quota of 1,75,025 pilgrims for the annual Haj pilgrimage in 2024. Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani accompanied by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan signed the Bilateral Haj Agreement 2024 with Saudi Minister of…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra on Monday via video conferencing, his office said. Thousands of beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra from across the country will join the event. The programme will also be joined by Union ministers, MPs, MLAs and local-level representatives,…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday secured a record fourth straight term as her Awami League party won two-thirds of the seats in the general elections marred by sporadic violence and a boycott by the main opposition BNP and its allies. Hasina’s party won 200 seats in the 300-seat parliament while counting is…
Palakkad (Kerala): The concept of development under the union government is to ensure that it reaches the farthest and the most vulnerable sections of the population, Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference as part of the ongoing Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (VBSY), Puri said…
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday strongly deplored the reported arrest of two editors of vernacular newspapers in Manipur and demanded their immediate release, alleging a “double engine assault” by the Modi government and the Manipur dispensation on the state. In a statement, Congress’ media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said that in yet…
Male: The Maldives government on Sunday suspended three ministers over their derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mariyam Shiuna, Malsha Shareef and Mahzoom Majid were suspended over their remarks against PM Modi, which triggered a massive backlash. Earlier in the day, the Maldves government in a statement had distanced itself from the remarks, calling them…
