The Indian Army has launched a major rescue and relief operation in flood-ravaged Kerala where torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 27 people and left thousands homeless due to flooding and landslides. The Army pushed its men and machinery into disaster relief and rescue operations at Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Idukki after incessant rain and landslides hit various northern districts of[Read More…]
Recently, a fake WhatsApp message has gone viral across the nation claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is giving Rs 10,000 to girls between the age of 1-18 years under ‘Sukanya Samridhi Yojana’. The message also claims that in order to avail the benefits of the scheme, applicants must register[Read More…]
After a row of nuisance and violence staged by Kanwariyas over the past ten days across various cities of North India, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the police to take strict action against those responsible for erupting violence and breaching laws. A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed[Read More…]
Union Minister of State for Railway Rajen Gohain is charged with rape case following a police complaint in Nagaon police station in Assam. Rajen Gohain is a BJP minister and a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha. It has come as a huge embarrassment for the BJP making the government[Read More…]
Mega Food Park in Getalsud, Ranchi is at the verge of getting shut and likely to be put up for auction, as banks have sought to take possession over Jharkhand Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd. Banks claimed that even after years of MFP’s inauguration, no unit could be opened or[Read More…]
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav got an extended provisional bail till August 20 on the health grounds on Friday. Lalu Yadav had come out on a parol on May 10, for three days to attend his son Tej Pratap Yadav’s wedding ceremony. After wedding senior advocate Abhishek Manu[Read More…]
Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor has called British Airways “racist” after an Indian passenger and his family were allegedly asked to de-board a flight in the UK. He said his own experience with the airline once was not pleasant. “Racist. Don’t fly British Airways. We cannot be kicked around. Sad to hear about the Berlin child incident. I stopped flying British Airways after the cabin[Read More…]
Three young men in Mumbai were held for taking up trending Kiki challenge on a local moving train, following to which, a local court in Maharashtra’s Palghar district ordered the youth to clean the Vasai railway station for three consecutive days. The video, shot by Shyam Sharma (24), Dhruv (23)[Read More…]
About 40,000 people visited IKEA’s first India store on its opening day here, a company spokesperson told IANS. The world’s leading Swedish home furnishings retailer received a huge response from customers on Thursday. “With a huge crowd from across the city thronging the store in the evening, the IKEA staff found it a bit challenging to[Read More…]
Karnataka is rushing Rs 10 crore worth relief materials to the neighbouring flood-hit Kerala following heavy monsoon rains, said an official statement on Thursday. “Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy directed state Chief Secretary T.M. Vijaya Bhaskar to rush relief materials and a team of doctors to Kerala, reeling under heavy rains and flash floods,” said the statement. On Kerala’s request, the state[Read More…]
Sunita Choubisa, a 20-year-old girl from Udaipur, saved a man from drowning into the Fatehsagar Lake. While a bunch of spectators stood still watching a man struggling for life, Sunita, a college student dived into the lake to save Bhupinder who had fallen into the lake. Young Sunita had gone[Read More…]
A man reported missing from Jaipur for the past 36 years has been found in a Pakistani jail and will be released on August 13, Jaipur MP Ramcharan Bohra said on Thursday. He said Gajendra Sharma was traced in May in Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore. Bohra, accompanied by Sharma’s wife, their son and local BJP leaders, met Union Minister of State for[Read More…]
According to mythological stories, every year lakhs of saffron clad Hindu pilgrims known as ‘Kanwariya’ were to converge at Haridwar (or at Gomukh, Babadham, Dhar), bathe in the river, pray. They would collect holy water and start their marathon walk back to their local Shiva temple. The fetched water is[Read More…]
March of Kanwariya or the holy yatra by lakhs of saffron clad Hindu pilgrims start during the month of Shravan, the wet season each year in India. A long human chain visits Hindu pilgrimage places of Haridwar, Gaumukh and Gangotri in Uttarakhand, to fetch holy waters of Ganges River. Who are[Read More…]
The new Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh has been a prominent journalist apart from being a politician. An inhabitant of a village called Sitab Diara in Saran district of Bihar, Harivansh Singh becomes the first non Congress deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha in 41 years. Earlier Godey Murahari[Read More…]
Indian Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has revealed shocking data of mass wastage of donated organs. According to the shared reports, over 867 donated organs, including heart and lungs, got wasted as many times, it was not possible to transport it to a recipient and in other cases,[Read More…]
It was an easy win for the NDA candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh for the post of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman. The opposition fell short of votes. 125 votes came for Mr Singh whereas oppositions had to manage with 105 votes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated and praised him on[Read More…]
The International Monetary Fund has given a warning to Indian government against macro-financial risks which emerged from the government ownership of the private sector banks and even advocated that the Indian government must privatise these lending institutions in order to mitigate these risks. In its review under Article IV, IMF[Read More…]
Paying regards to the Kanwariyas, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police on Wednesday showered rose petals on them from helicopter. The video of Merut zone Officer Prashant Kumar along with his companion and Commissioner Chandra Prakash Tripathi is going viral on social media. They were accompanied by few other senior[Read More…]
San Francisco: An elderly Sikh man was viciously attacked in California, leading to fears among the community that he may have been a victim of hate crime, the media reported. On Wednesday, two teenagers aged 16 and 18, were arrested in connection with the assault on Sahib Singh Natt, 71,[Read More…]
India remembers 8th August for its nationalist stir ‘Quit India Movement’. It was the year 1942, World War II was going on. Fearing attacks from Japan, the British had proposed Indians to cooperate with them in the war. If Indians cooperate the British in the war, they will free India[Read More…]
New Delhi: The installed power generation capacity in India has risen to 344 GigaWatts (GW) and its energy deficit, which stood at over 4 per cent in 2014, has shrunk to less than one per cent in 2018, an official release said on Wednesday. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant made[Read More…]
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on Tuesday reviewed progress of key infrastructure sectors of power, renewable energy, petroleum and natural gas, coal, and mining. The review meeting, which lasted for over two hours, was attended by top officials from infrastructure-related Ministries, NITI Aayog, and PMO. In course of the presentation made[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Directors of the Amrapali Group to file details of all their movable and immovable assets along with valuation, and warned them that they would be rendered homeless if they tried to play smart. A bench of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice[Read More…]
Had Jawaharlal Nehru not been self-centred, India and Pakistan would have been one country, the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday, adding that while Nehru was gifted with experience, mistakes do occur. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to give the prime ministership to (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah. But Nehru refused. He was self-centred. He[Read More…]