NEW DELHI: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha lost two more leaders as former MLAs Priyadarshi Mishra and Akash Das Nayak parted ways with the party. Mishra, who is the son-in-law of ex-Bhubaneswar MP Prasanna Patasani, has joined the BJP. While actor Akash Das Nayak’s next course of action is not known yet,…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Bharat Ratna award to five eminent personalities on Saturday, including two former Prime Ministers. The country’s highest civilian honour was awarded to former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at…
NEW DELHI: A data analysis from 265 districts in 17 states/UTs shows out of 9,551 child marriages stopped or prevented through legal interventions by a coalition of civil society organisations in 2022-23, nearly 60% girls were in 15 to 18-year age group.The data highlights vulnerability of even younger girls as it shows 26% of girls…
Will boost cervical cancer research in next term: PMNEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his govt’s commitment to allocating funds to scientists for local research in cervical cancer. During an interaction with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Modi emphasised the need to develop vaccines at minimal cost to protect girls across the country.Modi said…
LUCKNOW: Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be buried at his native Ghazipur district on Saturday, in the family’s Kalibag graveyard in Yusufpur Mohammadabad. The autopsy on the body of the former five-term MLA revealed that “myocardial infarction (heart attack) was the cause of Ansari’s death“, said a senior police officer. The viscera has been preserved for…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
KOLKATA: Swami Gautamananda has been appointed interim president of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. The Bengaluru-born 95-year-old monk – presently the senior-most vice-president of the Order – had joined the Ramakrishna Movement in 1951 and received his early spiritual training under Swami Ranganathananda. He was ordained as a monk in 1966 by Swami Vireshwarananda, the…
