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Ram Mandir official urges devotees to skip temple opening
Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh is set to witness a huge rush of pilgrims on January 22 for the grand opening of the Ram Mandir – when a new idol of ‘Ram Lalla’ will be placed in the sanctum sanctorum or ‘garbhagriha’ of the temple. It’s a dream come true...
Kamal Nath replaced by OBC leader as MP Cong chief
Days after its drubbing in the Madhya Pradesh elections, the Congress has replaced senior leader and former chief minister Kamal Nath as the state unit chief with other backward class (OBC) leader Jitu Patwari. OBCs account for over 50% of voters in Madhya Pradesh and the selection of Patwari...
UP woman judge alleges sex harassment, writes to CJI
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud has sought a status report from the Allahabad High Court administration after an open letter – purportedly written by a woman judge in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda alleging sexual harassment by a senior – went viral on social media. In the letter addressed to the Chief...
Parliament breach planner may have destroyed proofs
Lalit Jha – the alleged mastermind behind the Parliament security breach – burned the mobile phones of four accomplices in a bid to destroy evidence, Delhi Police sources told NDTV Friday. Jha, who surrendered to the cops last night, said he had kept the mobile phones of the two...
18 months of planning behind parliament breach
The stunning breach in Parliament on Wednesday was a result of at least 18 months of meticulous planning and several meetings among the accused, all of whom hailed from different states but had one common link – a social media page called the ‘Bhagat Singh Fan Club’, police officials...
J&K has no rights not available to other states, rules Supreme Court
A five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India’s sovereignty and that it does not have any right that is not available to the other states...
Telangana BJP MLA refuses to be sworn in by Owaisi
Telangana BJP legislator T Raja Singh has refused to be administered his oath by AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi, who was appointed by the protem speaker of the state assembly. Singh, who won from Goshamahal in last month’s assembly elections, said none of the BJP lawmakers would take oath. In a...
Mahua expelled from parliament in cash-for-query case
Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Parliament after Ethics Panel’s recommendation over cash-for-query row. Opposition INDIA bloc leaders questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”. The report was tabled in the...
Revanth Reddy to take CM oath with 12 ministers
Anumula Revanth Reddy, President of Telangana Congress, will take oath as the new Chief Minister of Telangana in a grand ceremony at Hyderabad’s LB Stadium today. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Sridhar Babu, Ponnam Prabhakar, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Damodar Rajanarasimha, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Dana Anasuya, Tummala Nageswar Rao, Konda Surekha and...
Modi joins raging ‘North vs South’ debate after poll results
A DMK MP’s ‘Gaumutra states’ remark in Parliament has added fuel to the ‘North vs South’ debate that has been raging since the BJP’s poll wins in the heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and the Congress’s victory in Telangana. The BJP’s critics claim it is the...
Modi asks opposition not to use parliament to vent frustration
The results of Assembly polls yesterday show that “people have rejected negativity”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning, urging the Opposition “not to vent the frustration of defeat” inside the Parliament. The Prime Minister was addressing the media ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament. “I request all...
5 frontrunners for Rajasthan chief minister’s post
The BJP national leadership is expected to make the announcement soon about the new Rajasthan chief minister. There are five contenders for the post, including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Daughter of founding BJP leader Vijayraje Scindia and sister of the late Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia, Vasundhara Raje started her...
Scindia retorts Priyanka Gandhi jibe over his height
As the BJP zoomed ahead of the Congress in the Madhya Pradesh election trends, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to a jab taken by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at his height. Responding to NDTV’s question on the BJP’s stellar show in the Gwalior Malwa region, seen as his...
Centre intervenes in AP, Telangana clash over water
Just hours before Telangana went to polls, Andhra Pradesh took charge of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and began releasing water, leading to tensions between the two states. At around 2 am on Thursday, when most Telangana officials were busy with the polls, nearly 700 Andhra cops stormed into the...
BJP, Cong brush off exit poll results, cite victory factors
Exit polls that predicted a primacy of Congress in Chhattisgarh and Telangana and that of the BJP in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, have been hotly contested by both camps in states they were predicted to lose. While exit polls are known to get it wrong many a time, their...
US says it takes murder plot indictment seriously
The White House National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, stressed on Friday that the US continues to improve its strategic partnership with India. On the other side, he added that the US “takes this very seriously,” referring to the indictment by the US Department of Justice against an Indian...
Focus shifts to cause of Uttarakhand tunnel collapse
Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel after rat miners drilled through the debris, triggering jubilation. The focus will now be on what led to the collapse and why the rescue took so long. The 41 workers were pulled out...
Biden says hostages release ‘only a start’
US President Joe Biden said Friday’s release of a first group of hostages taken by Hamas was just a “start” and that there were “real” chances to extend a temporary truce in Gaza. Speaking to reporters in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he was spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family,...
