NEW DELHI: The Budget session of Parliament, which starts on Friday with President Droupadi Murmu’s address, is once again likely to be contentious. The first signs of it emerged at Thursday’s all-party meeting attended by representatives from 36 parties, where opposition vowed to raise issues, such as the Maha Kumbh stampede and waqf bill. Parliamentary…
LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government in UP cancelled Thursday all VIP protocols in Prayagraj – pilot cars, police escort and direct entry, among other privileges – for the three remaining special snan days of Maha Kumbh following the Mauni Amavasya stampede.The curbs will kick in on the eve of Amrit Snan on Basant Panchami (Feb…
NEW DELHI: To reduce pendency of 62 lakh cases and counting in high courts, Supreme Court on Thursday, with the Centre’s agreement, ordered that a maximum of five retired HC judges could be reappointed to each HC to hear criminal cases, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. It added that their number should not exceed 10% of the…
CHENNAI: An undisclosed mix of chemicals sprayed by a homeopath had halted the decomposition of two dead bodies – that of his girlfriend and her father – for over four months inside their flat in an apartment complex in Thirumullaivoyal in Chennai, reports Sindhu Kannan. The bodies, however, had started decaying and were discovered on…
NEW DELHI: Parliament’s standing committee on communications and information technology is scheduled to “review implementation of laws related to all forms of media” in a meeting on Friday, in which a host of factors related to media will be discussed.Sources said issues of “rampant” paid news, fake news, many TV news channels focussing on sensationalism,…
PRAYAGRAJ: Faith and fate entwined in ways no one had foreseen on Mauni Amavasya at Maha Kumbh. The mela grounds became a labyrinth of hope and despair after a stampede, with people searching for their missing loved ones. Some were reunited, others were left to wander through uncertainty.For Leena Sahoo, thousands of miles away in…
Six pilgrims who were returning from Maha Kumbh after a holy dip – three each from UP and Bihar – died in two separate road accidents on Thursday, bringing the total number of such deaths since the start of the religious congregation to 28.Three devotees from UP were killed and three others injured when their…
LUCKNOW: The stampede at Sangam that claimed 30 lives on Maha Kumbh’s most auspicious day won’t dampen the spirits of pilgrims as their religious grounding has taught them to accept such adversities as “the will of God”, VHP’s international president Alok Kumar said on Thursday as crowds continued to throng the venue. “Past experiences show…
PRAYAGRAJ: Undeterred by the stampede of the day before, flow of devotees continued at Maha Kumbh Thursday, a day after Mauni Amavasya. More than 1.7 crore devotees had bathed at Sangam by Thursday afternoon, and the number reached around 2 crore by end of the day. The mela administration continued to operate shuttle buses and…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Indian Railways operated 364 outward trains from various stations of Prayagraj to ferry around 12 lakh pilgrims on Wednesday. The railway ministry said that in addition, another 77 inward trains were operated. The outward trains from Prayagraj included 142 regular and 222 Maha Kumbh special trains.Vaishnaw said senior…
