NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said that reference to Sanatan and Hindu in India evokes baffling reactions from ‘misguided souls’ driven by ‘dangerous ecosystem.’While addressing the International Congress of Vedanta organised at JNU, Dhankhar said that people who react to these terms without understanding the depths of words and meaning is ironic…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a veiled dig at Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal saying whilst he could have constructed a ‘Sheesh Mahal‘ for himself, his focus remained on providing homes for the underprivileged.The BJP has been criticising Kejriwal over allegedly spending a huge amount of money on his official…
NEW DELHI: Multiple dignitaries including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party parliamentary chairperson Sonia Gandhi attended a solemn ‘Bhog’ ceremony for the ‘Akhand Path‘ held in the memory of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence on Friday. The ceremony, a continuous recitation of the Guru Granth Sahib, was attended by prominent dignitaries who…
AGRA: The 17th-century Mubarak Manzil, a Mughal heritage site also known as Aurangzeb‘s Haveli, was largely demolished in Agra just three months after the state archaeological department issued a notification to protect the monument. Over 100 tractors of debris were removed from the site after the demolition drive, local residents said on Thursday. They say…
NEW DELHI: Starlink may be heading into fresh regulatory trouble in India with satellite communications devices of the Elon Musk-run company finding its way into the hands of insurgents and smugglers, raising red flags with the home ministry and the department of telecommunications.What has made the situation even more challenging for the government is that…
A senior Iranian official said Thursday that Tehran was ready to take up the case of Nimisha Priya, a nurse from Kerala sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national. “We are ready to do whatever we can as it involves a humanitarian issue,” said the official, speaking on condition of…
NEW DELHI: The home ministry, complying with the directions issued by Supreme Court in October 2024, has updated its model prisons law and model prison manual to prohibit classification and segregation of prisoners or any allotment of duty to them on the basis of caste, besides specifically barring manual scavenging in jails.The ministry has also…
Chandigarh: Punjab government dismissed Thursday DSP Gursher Singh Sandhu in connection with a September 2022 interview of Lawrence Bishnoi while the gangster was in custody at the premises of police’s Crime Investigation Agency Mohali’s Kharar.The dismissal order was signed by state home secretary Gurkirat Kirpal Singh. It noted that Sandhu, under suspension since October 2024,…
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…
