Ayodhya, Jan 22 (IANS): Carrying a silver ‘chhatra’ placed on a red cloth amidst playing of ‘Mangal Dhvani’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi climbed up the stairs of the newly constructed Rama temple and performed ‘Sankalpa’ within the 84 seconds ‘abhijit

New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS): If Lok Sabha and assembly elections are held simultaneously, the Election Commission will need around Rs 10,000 crore after every 15 years to buy new Electronic Voting Machines, the poll body said. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the government t

At least 14 students and two teachers died after a boat carrying them overturned in a lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat on January 18, officials said. There were at least 27 students in the boat, Vadodara district collector A.B. Gor had said. A search operation was under way to tr

All central government offices will be closed for half day on January 22 on the occasion of the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday, news agency PTI reported. The minister told the news agency that the decision on the half-day closure of the offi

Sixty-eight Rajya Sabha members, including nine Union ministers, are completing their tenures this year. The elections have already been called for three seats in Delhi and one seat in Sikkim. In Delhi, AAP leaders Sanjay Singh, Narain Dass Gupta and Sushil Kumar Gupta will complete their tenures on

New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS): The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday said that FASTags with incomplete KYC will be deactivated or blacklisted by banks after January 31, as part of its move to enhance efficiency of the electronic toll collection system and provide seamless movemen

Lyricist Javed Akhtar attended funeral of Shayar Munavvar Rana who breathed his last at PGI hospital in Lucknow on Sunday following a cardiac arrest. He was 71 and had been battling with a prolonged illness for the past several months. The mortal remains of the renowned Urdu poet reached his residen

Acclaimed poet Munawwar Rana passed away at a hospital in Lucknow due to cardiac arrest on Sunday, 14 January. He was 71 years old. "He was hospitalised for 14 to 15 days due to illness. He was first admitted to Medanta in Lucknow and then to SGPGI where he breathed his last around 11 pm tod

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday flagged-off his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ from Manipur’s Thoubal. From Manipur to Mumbai in Maharashtra, the yatra will cover around 6,700 kilometres over 67 days and pass through 110 districts

Bengaluru, Jan 13 (IANS): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is likely to contest on two seats from Karnataka and Telangana during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources said that AICC -- without informing the local Congress unit -- has already conducted surveys in Koppal constitu

A woman named Manju Gupta, in an effort to reduce smartphone dependency within her family, has introduced an innovative disciplinary measure. Fed up with continuous screen time and lack of personal engagement, she implemented rules whose violation would lead to a month-long prohibition from ordering

Hazrat Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board has said in his press note that the concept of Islam about the universe and its creator is very clear and that is that there is only one God, who created it. He created the universe and all its things, He gives

Silchar: An IndiGo flight bound for Guwahati from Mumbai made an emergency landing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Saturday morning amid poor visibility, people aware of the matter said. IndiGo flight 6E 5319 was forced to reroute to Dhaka as it failed to make a landing at Lokpriya Gopin

Koppal, Jan 10 (IANS): The photos and videos of a Muslim family hosting 'anna santarpana (to provide food with gratification)' for Sabarimala pilgrims have gone viral on social media in Karnataka. The gesture was being appreciated by people across the state. Khashim Ali Muddaballi

An Indian delegation led by Union Minister Smriti Irani visited Madina over the weekend as part of a two-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Indian media outlets reported. According to The Indian Express, Irani — who is also the women and child development minister — travelled to Madina along w

Former Karnataka minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader KS Eshwarappa on Sunday once again stoked a controversy after he asked Muslims to vacate the mosques allegedly built on demolished temple lands. He warned them of dire consequences if they failed to do so. Addressing a Hindu

The Supreme Court on January 8 quashed the order of premature release granted by the State of Gujarat in August 2022 to 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of her family during the 2002 riots. The court ordered them to report back to jail in two w

 AIUDF chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday urged Muslims to stay home and avoid travel from January 20 to 25 in view of the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya to “prevent any untoward incident”. Addressing a gathering in Assam’s Barpeta, Ajmal termed the BJP a