RAIPUR: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was talking about the fulfilment of a 500-year-old dream at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in a Bastar village on Monday, temple bells were ringing 180km away to celebrate the reopening of a Ram temple in one of the worst Maoist-hit areas of Sukma.Security forces have reopened the temple in…
Idukki diocese screens controversial movie ‘The Kerala Story’ for students, sparking discussions. Fr Jins Karakkat explains ‘Love Jihad’. VD Satheeshan criticizes, while BJP president K Surendran supports, highlighting ‘love jihad’ victims in Kerala. Source link
CUDDALORE: Politicians parroting promises is the stuff of elections. But what happens when a politician visits a fortune-telling parrot wanting to know his electoral fate?PMK’s Cuddalore candidate and film director Thankar Bachan surprised a kili josiyar – Tamil for parrot astrologer – outside Azhagumuthu Iyyanar temple in Thennabakkam on Sunday when he stopped by to…
Supreme Court invalidated money laundering case tied to Chhattisgarh liquor scam due to absence of predicate offence and crime proceeds. Enforcement Directorate’s complaint lacked basis for invoking PMLA, leading to potential fresh charges. Source link
NEW DELHI: In a major relief to NEET-UG aspirants facing Aadhaar-related issues while registering online for the test, National Testing Agency has reopened the application window for them for two more days – it will open on April 9 and close the next day at 10.50pm.Stating this as a “one-time opportunity”, NTA officials said candidates…
NEW DELHI: Nearly 3 out of 10 people in India, aged between 18 and 54 years, have never got their blood pressure measured.This has been revealed by the ICMR – National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR) in a study published recently in the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH).According to the ICMR-NCDIR study,…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission is unlikely to intervene in the row over National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) action in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, as part of the latter’s probe into the December 2022 Bhupatinagar blast. Sources in EC told TOI that EC is of the view that the raids and arrests by the…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi has brushed aside China’s territorial claims on Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state “is an integral part of India and will always remain so”. He also said that timely intervention of the Centre and efforts of the Manipur govt led to marked improvement in the situation in the state.“Arunachal Pradesh…
SRINAGAR: A tourist taxi driver from New Delhi was shot and wounded by terrorists in J&K’s Shopian district Monday evening, marking the latest attack on non-Kashmiri workers in the Union territory amidst heavy security presence for the first phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections on April 19.Paramjit Singh suffered two gunshot wounds in…
LONDON: A new report is calling for colonial-era paintings in the foreign office’s Whitehall headquarters to be removed and for the department’s name to be changed from what it describes as “somewhat elitist and rooted in the past”.A group of former diplomats, ministers, national security advisers, and senior officials have written the report, “The World…
