New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to former union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on his birth anniversary, and said he made a significant contribution to the upliftment of the underprivileged and vulnerable sections of society. Paswan, founder of the Lok Jan Shakti Party, was born on July 5, 1946 and died…
Nagpur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not against any community and wants to work by taking along all communities, religions and castes, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. He also said the ideas of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee are still relevant, and the BJP must move forward with them. India should be…
Raipur: Legendary Pandavani folk singer Teejan Bai, who brought Chhattisgarh’s traditional storytelling art to global audiences, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Raipur on Sunday after a prolonged illness, doctors said. She was 70. The Padma Vibhushan recipient breathed her last at 3.15 am in the hospital, where she had…
Lucknow: Under the BJP, both India and Uttar Pradesh emerged from the “dark era of appeasement, corruption and misgovernance” that prevailed during the previous governments, party president Nitin Nabin said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the first day of his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh, Nabin urged party…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said the Adani Group would set up a 2,000-bed hospital in New Town, with 1,000 beds reserved for free treatment of the poor. Adhikari made the announcement here while outlining the initiatives undertaken by his government in the state over the past two months, during an…
Omkeshwar: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday night offered prayers to Lord Shiva at the Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh. The resolution he and his wife had made in 2003 to visit all 12 Jyotirlingas across the country was fulfilled after 23 years with the Omkareshwar visit, he said. “Today is…
Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today inaugurated the CG Semi Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. Highlighting the significance of the occasion, the Prime Minister framed the launch as a testament to the nation’s unwavering commitment to its goals. He emphasized that the country consistently translates its strong resolutions into…
Chandigarh: Two people died after a two-storey building collapsed in the Industrial Area Phase-2 here on Saturday, officials said. Four people were pulled out from the debris and taken to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in Sector 32. Later two more people were brought out and rushed to the same hospital, they said….
MS Shanker Once, politicians feared journalists. Today, many honest journalists fear being mistaken for impostors carrying the same press card. Nothing illustrates the decline of a noble profession more painfully than this. That painful transformation did not happen overnight. It is the consequence of a profession gradually abandoning its highest ideals in pursuit of influence,…
Temple autonomy without financial transparency would merely replace one custodian with another. The time has come to make every rupee offered to God fully accountable. If the first battle is about liberating Hindu temples from excessive governmental control, the second—and perhaps even more important—battle is about protecting temple wealth from every possible avenue of misuse….
