Canada: PM Mark Carney visits BAPS Toronto Temple on Ram Navami Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney marked the beginning of Ram Navami celebrations by joining the Hindu community at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto. Observed over nine days, Ram Navami— also known as Ram Navratri — concludes the Navratri festival, which honors Goddess…
RAMESWARAM: PM Modi took a swipe at Tamil Nadu’s governing DMK over the contentious language issue on Sunday, questioning why politicians from the state sign official letters in English. “Tamil is a language of pride. I am surprised … no one signs their name in Tamil,” he said, urging them to do so.Addressing allegations from…
Faith is on the menu in UP’s sacred triangle and the writing’s on the wall – or rather, the signboards – as it’s all about going veggie. The transformation of ‘Sanjha Chulha’ was as luminous as the bright red signboard that announced it. For 25 years, the popular eatery on Varanasi-Lucknow highway had been a…
President Droupadi Murmu arrived in Lisbon on early Monday marking the beginning of a historic four-day state visit to Portugal and Slovakia. The visit is at the invitation of Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Slovak President Peter Pellegrini. This is the first state visit by an Indian President to Portugal in 27 years,…
NEW DELHI: Taking exception to the conduct of an NRI woman, who after agreeing before Supreme Court to settle matrimonial dispute with her ex-husband moved a US court seeking an order to restrain the apex court from proceeding, SC has issued a notice to her to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against…
NEW DELHI: A goodwill gesture made by India in 2016, when PM Narendra Modi handed over 88 ambulances to Sri Lanka, is helping the island nation save millions of lives. Sri Lanka, govt sources said, used the ambulances gifted by India to launch its national emergency ambulance service and, as time passed by, added more…
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) A 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces during an incident in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, with Israeli authorities claiming he was among a group of “terrorists” hurling rocks at cars on a nearby highway.According to the town’s mayor,…
NEW DELHI: India plans to commission its strategic new naval base for nuclear submarines and other warships in coastal Andhra Pradesh next year, with an eye on China’s ever-expanding naval forays into the Indian Ocean Region. India is also progressively upgrading the Karwar base in Karnataka on the western seaboard.The strategic base located near the…
Brooklyn horror: Police shoot man after he stabs four girls at home (Picture credit: X) A 49-year-old man was shot by police on Sunday morning after he allegedly went on a violent rampage with a meat cleaver inside a Brooklyn apartment, slashing and stabbing four young girls before being confronted by officers.According to New York…
MADURAI/T’PURAM: CPM politburo member Mariam Alexander Baby was appointed Sunday as the party’s new general secretary, becoming only the second from Kerala to hold the position after the state’s first CM EMS Namboodiripad. Baby, 71, succeeded the late Sitaram Yechury at CPM’s 24th congress in Madurai.Former general secretary Prakash Karat, who briefly served as interim…
