Agartala, Tripura. June 26 marked the beginning of the Kharchi Puja, the festival of ‘14 Gods’ observed in Tripura every year on the eighth day of the new moon (Purnima). The festival is observed either in the month of July or August, this year the Puja started on June 26 and will last till July…
Kerala (VSK). One of the minor planets circumambulating the sun will hereafter be known in the name of a Keralite, Ashwin Shekhar from Palakkad. International Astronomical Union (IAU) has introduced him as the first Bharatiya ‘meteor scientist’ and named the minor planet after him. The naming was solemnised in an Asteroid, Comets, Meteors Conference held…
Kochi (VSK). Kochi witnessed a rare sort of congregation of rare camaraderie on June 26, 2023. It was not a merry- making affair. It was not a protest. It was not a venue for conspiracy. It was the get-together of the fighters of the country’s “Second Freedom Struggle” against the Fascist ‘Emergency 1975-1977’. They were…
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (VSK). Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan said that Deendayal Upadhyay was a great visionary who commingled Bharatiya philosophies with politics. He was releasing the compilation of the complete works of Deendayal Upadhyay, on June 26, at Raj Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram. Deendayalji emphasised that Bharatiya politics should be on the basis of the country’s cultural…
Guwahati : Endeavouring to bridge the gap between the traditional and the modern, Chalachitram National Film Festival (CNFF) has, since 2017, been an important platform that exhibits heritage and harnesses the power of cinema to bring about societal change. The seventh consecutive edition will be conducted September 9 and 10 at the Jyoti Chitraban Film…
Raipur. Millions of animals are slaughtered all over the country on Eid-ul-Zuha, but, it is being heard that this time round millions of cow progeny have already been ghettoized and congressed at different places in Bharat to be put to the long knives on this day. Although, in other countries around the world, cows are…
Guwahati: Attending a meeting on the declaration of emergency, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma commented that those who resisted the declaration and endured intolerable pain and sacrificed immensely to strengthen the democratic spirit will remain as a source of inspiration for the present generation. Over 300 Loktantra Senanis and their relatives were also felicitated…
Mary Millben A night I will treasure forever. Performing for His Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the concluding event of his state visit to the USA. What I loved most about last night was listening to the voices of the audience singing. You could hear the passion of their hearts. Their souls sang with…
“Recollecting the Dark Days of Emergency” Shashikant Chauthaiwale It will not be wrong to say that the dark chapter of Emergency in the history of independent India has an unforgettable past and least possible future! In the month of June 1975, the training camp (Sangh Siksha Varg) of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the whole northeastern…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, while expressing its concern over the blocake on Asia Sentinel, an independent online media outlets fosusing on Asian news coverage, urges the Singapore government (precisely the interior minister K. Shanmugam) to withdraw the ban immediately and unconditionally. ‘Access to Asia Sentinel’s website has apparently…
