Deoband (Saharanpur): Uttar Pradesh Press Club presented its annual awards to personalities from various fields for their contributions. Among this year’s award winners, Dr. Satyawan Saurabh and Priyanka Saurabh were honoured with the Mahatma Gandhi Award for independent writing and their contributions to literature and culture. On this occasion, President Mumtaz Ahmed said, “The work of…
Gwalior: Pace sensation Mayank Yadav is expected to unleash his raw speed while the absence of India’s T20 regulars will provide another opportunity to the fringe players in the three-match series against Bangladesh, beginning here Sunday. Having consistently generated speed in excess of 150kmph in his maiden IPL earlier this year, Mayank had drawn the…
Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh): Devotees visiting Lord Venkateswara temple on Tirumala hills are complementing that the quality of laddu prasadam (consecrated sweet) has improved and it should continue that way, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Saturday. Naidu, who held a review meeting with senior officials of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the custodian of Venkateswara…
Pune: A special court in Pune has summoned Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case filed by the grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, accusing the Congress leader of making objectionable remarks against the Hindutva ideologue. The court issued the summons to Gandhi on Friday, asking him to appear before it on October 23. Last year,…
In the days leading up to and following Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2, a new wave of dissent has emerged under the slogan ‘Not My Mahatma.’ This phrase reflects a growing segment of Indians who once revered Gandhi as the ‘Father of the Nation’ and ‘Bapuji’ but now question the darker aspects of his…
Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed as security forces foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the Indian Army said on Saturday. “Two terrorists have been eliminated by the security forces in the ongoing operation,” the army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps said. The Corps had earlier in a post…
Our Political Desk As the assembly election process concludes in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana, political observers across the country eagerly await the evening’s exit polls to gauge the outcome. These elections, occurring shortly after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, hold immense significance for both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and…
Chandigarh: Polling for all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana began on Saturday morning amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates, will be decided in the polls in which more than…
Dantewada: In one of the biggest operations against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, security personnel killed 28 Naxalites in a fierce encounter in the Bastar region on Friday, a top police official said, as the BJP government pushed ahead with its goal of eradicating Left-Wing Extremism. This was the second highest fatalities suffered by Maoists in a…
Colombo: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday met Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and discussed ways to deepen ongoing cooperation and strengthen India-Sri Lanka ties, and assured India’s continued support to the island nation’s economic rebuilding. Jaishankar, who is here on a day-long visit, less than a fortnight after President Dissanayake was sworn…
