- Kolkata
WB: Post Ram Navami violence, VHP to hold 500 Hanuman Jayanti events
Kolkata: Amid the furore over violence during celebration of Ram Navami in West Bengal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to conduct 500 Hanuman Jayanti programmes across the state on Thursday.…
- India
UP BJP to invoke ‘guesthouse incident’ to woo Dalit voters
Lucknow: In the run-up to next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is set to invoke the infamous “guesthouse incident” of 1995 to woo Dalits. The UP BJP’s…
- India
Dawoodi Bohra succession row: Bombay HC reserves order on 2014 suit
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday completed its hearing and reserved order on a 2014 suit challenging the position and appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as the leader of the Dawoodi…
- India
SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya booked for hurting religious sentiments
Rae Bareli: An FIR has been lodged against senior Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya for allegedly raising a slogan hurting religious sentiments of Hindus during a public programme attended by party…
- India
Padma awards conferred on late Mulayam, Mahalanabis, Sudha Murty, Keeravaani
New Delhi: Veteran socialist leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among…
- India
Reference to Gujarat riots dropped from NCERT class 11 Sociology book
New Delhi: A portion referring to the Gujarat riots has been dropped from the class 11 Sociology textbook by NCERT, months after it removed the reference to the 2002 communal violence in…
- Mumbai
‘Negative content’ needs to be removed from history textbooks: Maha BJP chief
Mumbai: Amid a row over the removal of certain references in NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, BJP’s Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said some people had deliberately written “negative content” in…
- India
Govt says no plan to use Aadhaar data for census
New Delhi: The government has no plan to use Aadhaar data for census, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “The Office of the Registrar…
- India
‘Misuse of central agencies’: SC refuses to entertain plea of 14 parties
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea by 14 parties, led by the Congress, alleging arbitrary use of central probe agencies against opposition leaders and seeking guidelines…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP lone state to release welfare calendar, claims Chief Minister
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh is the only state in the country to release a welfare calendar in advance and implement the targeted schemes as per schedule, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy said.…
- World
Trump’s next in-person hearing in hush money case set for Dec 4
New York: The next in-person hearing in a criminal case against former president Donald Trump in New York City has been set for December 4, roughly two months before the official start…
- Bangalore
Karnataka elections: Kannada film actor Sudeep backs Bommai
Bengaluru: Leading Kannada film actor Sudeep Sanjeev, popularly known as Kichcha Sudeep, on Wednesday announced his support to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the poll-bound Karnataka, but clarified that he is neither…
- Delhi
MHA asks states, UTs to ensure law and order during Hanuman Jayanti
Delhi: Ahead of Hanuman Jayanti, the Centre on Wednesday asked all states to ensure the maintenance of law and order, peaceful observance of the festival, and to monitor any factor that can…
- India
Stay on show-cause notice to Anil Ambani under Black Money Act to continue: Bombay HC
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday continued till further orders an interim stay on show-cause notice and penalty demand issued to industrialist Anil Ambani by the Income Tax department under the…
- India
Whitewashing with a vengeance: Cong on over deletions from NCERT textbooks
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday hit out at the government over some texts missing from NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking the right-wing and…
