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‘Prime Minister Modi’s message of peace’: Kiren Rijiju presents ‘chadar’ at Ajmer Sharif Dargah (Image Credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju visited the revered Ajmer Sharif Dargah on Saturday to present a ceremonial ‘chadar’ on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The gesture, part of the annual Urs celebrations of 13th…
WASHINGTON: Outgoing US national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India on January 5-6 to meet his counterpart Ajit K Doval and other senior government officials for a final round of talks with them on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues and to finalize some ongoing initiatives . Sullivan, 48, the…
NEW DELHI: Eminent physicist Rajagopala Chidambaram, a key figure in India’s nuclear tests in 1974 and 1998, died on Saturday, the department of atomic energy (DAE) confirmed. He was 88 and died at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai, according to a DAE official. In a statement, the DAE said: “It is with deep sadness that we…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office on Saturday Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025 in Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. National Bank of Agriculture and Rural development (NABARD) President Shaji KV congratulated the Prime Minister at the event.Ahead of the inauguration of the Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the more…
Santosh Deshmukh (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Maharastra Police Two more men accused of Beed Sarpanch’s murder were arrested on Saturday. Santosh Deshmukhwho was tortured to death.The accused were identified as Sudarshan Ghule and Sudhir Sangle, news agency PTI reported quoting the police.The police arrested the accused three days after the state government formed a 10-member…
NEW DELHI: punjab government has written to the Centre, seeking Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s intervention to end the stalemate over the ongoing farmers’ protest on the Punjab-Haryana border.The letter written by Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian also highlighted the hunger strike of farmer representative Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been fasting unto…
File Photo: Justice Ravikumar NEW DELHI: Born in a scheduled caste family in Peermade village in Kerala’s Idukki district, CT Ravikumar decided to study law after graduating in zoology, which led to a four-decade-long career and becoming a court judge higher thanks to your hard work. competition and ability to win hearts both on and…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Modi launched a scathing attack on the AAP on Friday, calling it “AAPda” (disaster in Hindi), virtually setting the tone for an aggressive and sharp campaign for the assembly elections to be held in the capital in February.Speaking at an event in Ashok Vihar while inaugurating various development initiatives, the Prime…
NEW DELHI: As India moves towards creating tri-service theater commands, the Army has adopted a radical change in promotion policy for senior officers by making it necessary for all lieutenant generals be rated on their performance through a “quantified evaluation system“.This new system, which will come into effect from March 31, will “facilitate merit-based selection”…
PUNE: Twelve-hour classes all year round, creative writing skills that eclipse those of their peers and multiplication tables memorized up to 1000. A school in a backwater of Nashik is creating ripples with all that and more, attracting Education in Maharastra Minister Dada Bhuse to the remote tribal village just weeks after taking office.However, the…