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Over 4.72 cr e-challans issued for traffic rules violation in 2022: Govt
New Delhi: The number of e-challans issued for traffic rules violation and the revenue collected from it has gone up during the last few years, showed the figures provided by the Centre…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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‘Why I killed Gandhi’ may become moral lesson: Owaisi on NCERT row
Hyderabad: The All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi warned on Wednesday that removing any references to the 2002 Gujarat riots from NCERT textbooks will ‘make our kids intellectually poorer and…
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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…
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Akhand Hindu Rashtra dream must reach Makkah: Yati Narsinghanand
The 58-year-old head of Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, delivered a hate speech recently at a two-day event named Hindu Jagruti Samelan (Awakening the Kshatriya) organised by Nyay…
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Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s supreme head invites PM Modi to visit
New Delhi: Kerala-headquartered Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s supreme head, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office in New Delhi and extended an invite to…
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Delhi court extends Sisodia’s judicial custody, to hear bail plea on April 12
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of AAP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia till April 17 in connection with the excise policy case being…
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Withdraw health scheme extended for Karnataka villages: Bommai to Maharashtra
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai warned Maharashtra government on Wednesday that if the insurance scheme for villages in Karnataka state is not withdrawn, a similar scheme will be extended for people…
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‘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…
