New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested 20 people over the violence during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in the city’s Jahangirpuri area, including the “main conspirators” behind the clashes and another person who allegedly fired a bullet that hit a sub-inspector, officials said on Sunday. Two juveniles have also been apprehended in connection with the […]
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday held a meeting with representatives of farmer unions, urging them to opt for crop diversification and direct seeding of rice to save water. He said the state government will take up with the Centre the issue of giving remunerative price of alternative crops. Mann held the meeting […]
Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said a conference of non-BJP chief ministers is likely to be held in Mumbai soon to discuss the prevailing political situation in the country. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to the chief ministers of states where the BJP is not in power underlining the […]
New Delhi: Hatred, bigotry and intolerance were “engulfing” the country and if not stopped these would damage the society beyond repair, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has alleged. In a newspaper article, she called upon people not to allow this to go on and urged them to stop “this raging fire and tsunami of hate” that […]
Ahmedabad: India cannot afford to remain stagnant at this juncture and it has to become self-reliant, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. He was speaking after unveiling a 108-feet tall statue of Lord Hanuman in Gujarat’s Morbi via video link on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti. “India cannot afford to remain stagnant today…We cannot […]
Ranchi: Damodar Ropeways and Infra Ltd on Saturday said it will provide Rs 25 lakh each as compensation to the next of kin of those who died in a recent cable car tragedy in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district. Three people lost their lives in the ropeway accident at Trikut Hills, around 20 km from the temple […]
Chandigarh: The SGPC has asked Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to seek an apology from the Sikh community for allegedly violating the maryada’ of the Guru’s house by visiting it under the influence of liquor. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee demanded apology days after SAD chief Sukhbir Badal on Thursday accused Chief Minister Mann of […]
Bhuj: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the country will get a record number of doctors in the next 10 years due to the central government’s policy of establishing at least one medical college in every district. Speaking after dedicating to the nation a 200-bed K K Patel Mutli-speciality Hospital in Bhuj in Gujarat’s […]
Mumbai: India has to grow big and its rise is incumbent upon the rise of ‘dharma’, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said, in remarks interpreted by some rivals of the BJP as a pitch for ‘Akhand Bharat’. Likening India’s progress to that of a vehicle that only has accelerator and no brakes, the RSS chief […]
Ahmedabad: Days after communal violence rocked Khambhat town of Gujarat’s Anand district, the administration on Friday brought in bulldozers to remove illegal encroachments along a road in Shakarpura area of the town where a Ram Navami procession came under attack on April 10. Apart from the illegal encroachments, including wooden cabins and some concrete structures, […]