Puducherry: The fate of 26 candidates in fray for the Lok Sabha polls will be sealed today when voters spread across four rgions will pick the lone MP from this Union territory. The fight is largely confined between the ruling BJP and Congress. BJP leader and Home Minister A Namassivayam, fielded on behalf of the…
Washington: India has opened up its market to the American farming industry in as many as 12 different categories, a top Biden administration trade official told lawmakers on Wednesday as some influential senators raised the issue of wheat and rice subsidies in India and alleged forced labour in the country’s shrimp industry. US Trade Representative…
Pedana (Andhra Pradesh): TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday said Rama Rajya will be back in Andhra Pradesh and called on people to get rid of YSRCP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in the forthcoming elections. The opposition leader made these observations at Pedana in Krishna district during…
Kolkata: Ram Navami was celebrated across West Bengal on Wednesday amid heavy security deployment, and barring a blast in Murshidabad that injured one person, it passed off peacefully with leaders of both TMC and BJP taking part in the festivities with an eye on the Lok Sabha polls. A blast happened near a procession in…
New Delhi: Ram Navami was celebrated on Wednesday across the country with joyous processions and special prayers, as Ayodhya’s Ram temple witnessed grand festivities to mark the first Ram Navami after its consecration, a day described as a “generational milestone” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi greeted people on the festival, which commemorates the birth…
Mandya (Karnataka): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday termed the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as a battle between two ideologies — INDIA bloc “fighting for Constitution” on the one hand and BJP, which wants to “abolish constitution and democracy,” on the other. He said if the INDIA bloc is voted to power, it will be…
Ahmedabad: The Indian Space Research Organisation will continue its Chandrayaan series of lunar probes until an astronaut from the country lands on the Moon, said ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Wednesday. Last August, the premier space agency’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made a soft landing on the south pole of the lunar surface, making India the first…
Kannur (Kerala): The political ripples created by the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are yet to die down in Kerala, with the Congress on Wednesday alleging that the BJP leader and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan were trying to convince people that they were not similar. But the people of the state are well…
Ayodhya: The ‘Surya tilak’ of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya was done at noon on Wednesday on the occasion of Ram Navami using an elaborate mechanism involving mirrors and lenses by which sunbeams were directed on the forehead of the Ram idol. This is the first Ram Navami since the consecration of the Ram idol at…
Ghaziabad: Amid intense speculation over whether he would contest the Lok Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he would abide by his party’s decision on it. Gandhi made the remarks at a joint press conference here with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Asked whether he would contest from…
