NEW DELHI: Amid the controversy triggered by a little-known Hindu outfit claiming that a temple exists below the Ajmer Sharif dargah, PM Modi on Thursday handed over the ‘chadar’ that would be offered at the dargah on his behalf during Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, continuing a tradition that he has followed ever since he…
NEW DELHI: In view of its recent ruling staying all proceedings on disputes over religious sites, Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the fight over the Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh be tagged and heard along with petitions challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act which is…
AHMEDABAD: Depriving an employee of leave encashment earned by him is violation of constitutional rights, Gujarat high court said, dismissing a plea by Ahmedabad MC against a labour court’s order directing the civic body to pay leave encashment dues to a retired employee.Upholding labour court’s order, Justice M K Thakker said: “Leave encashment is akin…
NEW DELHI: As the recent thaw in India-Maldives ties holds, Maldives foreign minister Abdulla Khaleel arrived in India for a bilateral visit. He’s the first foreign minister to visit India in the new year and will meet his counterpart S Jaishankar on Friday.The two sides are expected to review bilateral cooperation in a range of…
JAIPUR: The commissioner of the devasthan department in Udaipur has ruled against Siddhi Kumari, a three-term BJP MLA from Bikaner (East), and in favour of Rajyashree Kumari and other trustees in a dispute over management of charitable trusts established by the late Dr Karni Singh, Bikaner’s last titular maharaja.Siddhi Kumari was accused of misusing her…
Matthew Livelsberger shot himself in the head before the Tesla Cybertruck exploded in Las Vegas. 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, a military man, who was found dead as a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, shot himself in the head before the truck exploded. Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters…
NEW DELHI: DRDO should be in sync with rapidly evolving technological ecosystem, come up with cutting-edge products, develop ‘niche technologies’, enhance collaboration with private sector and include start-ups in R&D efforts, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.Interacting with scientists at the DRDO headquarters on its 67th foundation day, the minister asked them to keep an…
NEW DELHI: Coimbatore-based Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king‘, has an annual turnover of Rs 15,000 crore from his lottery business, according to an ongoing ED probe that began in 2014. The enforcement agency has already attached properties and other assets worth over Rs 1,000 crore of Martin – Rs 622 crore by its…
NEW DELHI: Having fulfilled its objective to scrap the special status of J&K by rendering the controversial Article 370 defunct, the Modi government appears to have moved on to project the state as being one of the sources of India’s spiritual and cultural tradition as part of the larger Bharatiya culture.As part of the endeavour,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh government to engage forensic experts to reconstruct a 40-year-old illegible FIR in a Kanpur anti-Sikh riot case and asked the state legal services authority to provide leading criminal lawyers to complainants and victims’ kin to oppose closure reports in nine such cases. It said professional fees of…
