New Delhi/Chandigarh. In November 1858, 25 Nihang Sikhs, under the leadership of Nihang Baba Fakir Singh Khalsa, entered the Babri complex in Ayodhya and performed a havan (ritual) inside. Now, more than 165 years later, his eighth descendant Jathedar Baba Harjit Singh Rasulpur said he would conduct a langar (Sikh community kitchen) during the consecration…
New Delhi/Mumbai/Pune. In a crackdown on the ISIS, the NIA on Monday raided 19 locations across four States and arrested eight operatives of the banned terror outfit’s Ballari module, including its leader Minaz, thus foiling plans by the accused to carry out terror acts, especially IED blasts. NIA teams swooped down on the 19 locations…
Surprise visit to busy market and mitaayi theru Calicut, Kerala (VSK). Tense situation has been prevailing in Calicut University campus since yesterday. During the day on December 17, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan had asked the police officers to remove the ‘anti-Arif Mohammed Khan’ banners, erected in the campus, by the SFI men. But, since police…
Guwahati: Assam government has taken a bold step in converting at least 1281 Madrasas (Islamic educational institute) across 31 districts to general schools, where the students will now study all traditional subjects recognised at the national level. From now onwards those Madrasas will be known as Middle English (ME) schools, which will follow the academic…
Pathanamthitta, Kerala. Devotees undertaking arduous journeys, covering vast distances, and enduring intense fasting, returned without getting darshan of Lord Ayyappa at Sannidhanam in Sabarimala. Despite hours of waiting, they couldn’t progress beyond Pampa, leading them to perform symbolic rituals like removing their Tulsimala, Neyyabhishekam (an offering to Lord Ayyappa), and coconut breaking at the temple…
Guwahati: Repeatedly harassed and abused by the current regime in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has brought laurels to the south Asian nation once again and this time the award comes from the world of football. The founder of Grameen Bank (of Bangladesh), which shared the Nobel peace 2006 award with Prof…
Kerala (VSK). The reports from Thiruvananthapuram hints the alleged CPM conspiracy against the Governor. SFI men carried out black flag demonstration against him late in the evening on December 11 while he was on the way to the airport. He stepped out of the car and accused CM of deliberately plotting to harm him physically….
New Delhi. Students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University can face a fine of Rs 20,000 for resorting to violence, holding dharnas, and hunger strikes on the campus and a fine of up to Rs 10,000 for raising anti-national slogans and inciting intolerance towards religion, caste or community. The JNU Students’ Discipline and Conduct Rule has…
New Delhi. Welcoming Supreme court judgement on Article 370, the Int’l working president and senior advocate Alok Kumar said that today’s decision of the Supreme Court on Article 370 is like a tribute of a grateful nation to the supreme sacrifice of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. Today’s judgement underlines that the Letter of Accession signed…
New Delhi. SC on Monday upheld the Union Government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 of the constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and said that every decision taken by the Centre on behalf of a State can’t be subject to a legal challenge. A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud,…
