The controversy surrounding the survey of Gyanvaapi Mosque in Varanasi on the orders of a local court reached the Supreme Court on Friday with an urgent petition seeking a stay on it.Senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi mentioned the petition against a Varanasi court’s order allowing an advocate commissioner to survey the Gyanvapi mosque. “Please grant status […]
Rahul Gandhi on Friday morning met Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot as he reached the Congress-ruled state after a train ride with other party colleagues. Ahead of a three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ (brainstorming conclave) in Rajasthan, he received a warm welcome at 5 am at the Chittorgarh railway station where a large group of partymen amid […]
The Decision Review System (DRS) was not available for nearly two overs at the start of the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings due to power failure at the Wankhede Stadium here on Thursday.Due to a power cut at one of the floodlight towers, the DRS was not available for 1.4 overs […]
The petition seeking to “find the truth” behind the 22 locked rooms in the Taj Mahal was filed last week before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court by Rajneesh Singh, who is the media in-charge of the BJP’s Ayodhya unit.The petition cited the claims of some historians and Hindu groups that the mausoleum […]
The terrorists belonging to Pak-based and globally proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad are suspected to be involved in the killing of the Kashmiri Pandit government employee Rahul Bhat in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district. According to intelligence inputs, the Jaish-e-Mohammad group has been desperate to take action against the minority community in order to keep the terror plot […]
Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan has been arrested by Delhi Police for taking part in a protest against an anti-encroachment drive. Civic authorities today carried out anti-encroachment drives in various parts of Delhi. The demolition drives sparked violent protests in the Madanpur Khadar area of Delhi, where locals claimed that legal structures were bulldozed. […]
The Uttar Pradesh government has made it mandatory for all students and teachers in madrasas of the state to sing the National Anthem before commencing classes. The order has been implemented from today, May 12.Danish Azad Ansari, UP minority state minister, has passed this order. The decision was taken at the meeting of the UP […]
A Varanasi court on Thursday ordered the completion of the Gyanvapi mosque survey and the presentation of report by May 17. The order comes a day after the hearing in the petition seeking the removal of court-appointed advocate commissioner entrusted with carrying out the survey had concluded. “The court has ordered complete survey and present a […]
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister, days after his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned following violent protests over the worst economic crisis in the debt-ridden island nation. Wickremesinghe, who has served as the country’s prime minister for four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post of […]
Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Thursday carried out a comprehensive review of India’s military preparedness along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh as he began his first visit to the strategically key region nearly two weeks after taking the reins of the Indian Army.On the first day of his three-day visit, […]