Battis Shirala Nagaraja Temple is a spiritually important and ancient temple located in Battis Shirala town of Sangli district, Maharashtra. The temple is world-famous for its unique and centuries-old Nagaraja (Snake God) worship tradition, which reaches its peak during the sacred festival of Nag Panchami. The Naga worship tradition at Battis Shirala is believed to…
New Delhi: Faridabad-based Al Falah University had appointed three doctors — two arrested by the National Investigation Agency and the third an alleged suicide bomber of the November 2025 Red Fort area blast — apart from other specialists without police verification or scrutiny, the Enforcement Directorate has found. The agency, as part of its money…
Beijing: China has reduced its US Treasury holdings to a 17-year low as part of the continued diversification of its forex reserves towards gold and overseas equity investments amid unsettling ties with Washington. China’s holdings of US treasuries fell to USD 682.6 billion in November last year, down from USD 688.7 billion in October, the…
Our Correspondent Hyderabad: In a significant escalation of the ongoing governance battle in Telangana cricket, the Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) has approached the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seeking immediate intervention against the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s (HCA) decision to announce a “Telangana T20 Premier League.” The TCA, which is itself pursuing legal…
Motihari, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited the site of the under-construction Virat Ramayan Temple in East Champaran district, where a 33-foot-tall Shiva Lingam was being installed on Saturday. The CM, accompanied by Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha and others, paid the visit during his Samridhi Yatra in the district. Kumar…
Madurai (Tamil Nadu): The spirit of the traditional bull taming sport came to the fore at the renowned Jallikattu event at Alanganallur here on Saturday with scores of ferocious bulls freezing the tamers by displaying their might. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, who witnessed the popular sport at close quarters, announced a government…
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s betrayal of the Marathi manoos paved the way for the BJP to win the Mumbai civic elections and install its mayor. The BJP has officially maintained that the next mayor of Mumbai will be from Mahayuti (the BJP-Shiv…
Hyderabad: The Telangana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday sharply questioned the political and ideological relevance of the Communist Party of India’s (CPI) proposed centenary celebrations in Khammam, describing the event as a symbolic exercise disconnected from the political and social realities of modern India. Reacting to the event organized at Khammam…
Hyderabad: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for electing 125 of its candidates as corporators in various Municipal Corporations in the western state, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said the parties that lost the polls should introspect. Addressing a press conference, Owaisi said the AIMIM party is gearing up to contest Municipal polls in Telangana…
Malda: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off the country’s first Vande Bharat sleeper train between Howrah and Guwahati (Kamakhya) from Malda Town station in north Bengal. He also virtually flagged off the return Guwahati–Howrah Vande Bharat sleeper train from here. Modi interacted with children and school students inside the train. Developed to meet…
