Ayodhya: A new spiritual milestone was achieved in Ayodhya on Thursday with the grand Pran Pratishtha (consecration) ceremony of the Ram Darbar at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple complex. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath participated in the sacred rituals as the chief guest, underscoring the occasion's spiritual and cultural significance. The Ram Darbar, installed on the first floor above the sanctum of Ram Lalla, features intricately carved idols of Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Bharat, Shatrughan...Read More
Gangtok, Jun 6 (PTI) Efforts to rescue stranded tourists from Chaten in north Sikkim resumed on Friday, with three helicopters taking off from the Pakyong Greenfield Airport, officials said. Altogether, 63 stranded people, mostly tourists, were on Thursday evacuated by helicopters from Chaten, which was hit by a landslide earlier this week, they said. Sixty-four other tourists are still waiting at Chaten to be rescued by the army and local administration. The evacuation operation was called of...Read More
Bengaluru, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four people, including the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Marketing Head and DNA Event Management Company staffers, were arrested on Friday in connection with the stampede near the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru that claimed 11 lives. Nikhil Sosale, Head of Marketing for RCB, along with Sunil Matthew, Kiran, and Sumanth from DNA Event Management, have been arrested, according to the police. Police said the accused have been arrested in a joint operation ...Read More
GANDHINAGAR: National Security Advisory Board chairman Alok Joshi on Thursday emphasised the need for intelligence sharing among govt agencies for better results and asserted that one of the challenges agencies face is breaking the silos in which they operate.Joshi, who was addressing delegates at the 'Police Technology Summit 2025' at Rashtriya Raksha University in Gandhinagar, headed the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), apex level agenci...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Congress General Secretary in charge of Communications, Jairam Ramesh, on Friday stated that the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line (USBRL) is a 'powerful' example of continuity in governance, claiming that the 135 km rail link between Baramulla and Qazigund had become operational by June 26, 2013. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu and Kashmir today and inaugurate several projects, including the Chenab bridge, which is a part of USBRL. In a po...Read More
Jammu, June 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to flag off the Vande Bharat train service from Katra to Srinagar and lay the foundation/inaugurate projects worth Rs 46,000, people are eagerly looking forward to a new developmental dawn on the union territory's horizon. PM Modi is scheduled to rewrite history by realising the over 70-year-long dream of the people in Kashmir, for whom the journey from the landlocked Valley to the rest of the ...Read More
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): Law student Sharmistha Panoli, arrested for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through a social media post, has been granted interim bail by the Calcutta High Court on Thursday. The court directed her to cooperate with the investigation, not leave the country, and furnished bail on a personal bond of Rs 10,000. The court also ordered appropriate police protection for her. Her father, Prithviraj Panoli, expressed relief, citing her health issues,...Read More
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A World Environment Day event at Kerala Raj Bhavan turned into a political flashpoint on Thursday after Left-led govt boycotted it, objecting to a Bharat Mata portrait allegedly tied to RSS shakhas.Agriculture minister P Prasad, who was to attend the function, withdrew hours before it began. "Raj Bhavan made some unexpected changes in the proceedings. It was informed on Wednesday evening that a floral tribute to Bharat Mata's portrait would be included. We don't oppose Bharat...Read More
Lucknow, June 6: Kalimullah Khan, popularly known as the 'Mango Man' of India, has named a newly developed mango variety after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Grown using his signature grafting technique in his Malihabad orchard, the new variety has been named 'Rajnath Aam'. Khan, who has earlier named mango varieties after several prominent Indian personalities, including Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai, Akhilesh Yadav, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, and Amit Shah, was awarded the Padma Shri for ...Read More
New Delhi: Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra is announcing the bi-monthly monetary policy amid widespread expectations of a third consecutive rate cut of 25 basis points or even bigger to propel economic growth against the backdrop of trade tensions triggered by Trump tariffs. The RBI's rate-setting panel Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) started its three-day deliberations on Wednesday.The central bank reduced the key benchmark lending rate (repo) by 25 bps points each in February and April t...Read More
Mumbai: Facing criticism over non-compliance with cases registered by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against tainted officials, the state government has issued new guidelines to remove hurdles. The 8-page guidelines have been issued by the General Administration Department (GAD) headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also heads the Home Department, under whom the ACB functions. As per data with the ACB, the approval is pending in 355 cases, of which 305 cases are pending for more th...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Congress leader Pawan Khera expressed concern over the mysterious death of a young Kashmiri man, Zubair Ahmad Bhat, in Delhi, questioning the silence of mainstream media on the issue. In a post on X, on Thursday, Khera asked, "In the capital city, a young Kashmiri dies under mysterious circumstances, and not a word of it gets discussed in mainstream media? If you don't question the authorities, obviously the authorities won't give you answers." Also Read | Hary...Read More
Lucknow, Jun 6 (PTI) Kalimullah Khan, popularly known as the 'Mango Man' of India, has named a newly developed mango variety after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Grown using his signature grafting technique in his Malihabad orchard, the new variety has been named 'Rajnath Aam'. Also Read | Lucknow Toddler Rape Case: Man Accused of Abduction, Sex Assault of 3-Year-Old Girl Killed in UP During Police Encounter. Khan, who has earlier named mango varieties after several prominent Indian personal...Read More
Lucknow, Jun 6 (PTI) Kalimullah Khan, popularly known as the 'Mango Man' of India, has named a newly developed mango variety after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Grown using his signature grafting technique in his Malihabad orchard, the new variety has been named 'Rajnath Aam'. Khan, who has earlier named mango varieties after several prominent Indian personalities, including Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai, Akhilesh Yadav, Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, and Amit Shah, was awarded the Padma Shr...Read More
NEW DELHI: Come Saturday and people can whistle into Srinagar on a train as Northern Railway has notifed regular Vande Bharat Express services between Katra and the city. PM Narendra Modi will flag off the first passenger train to the Kashmir Valley on Friday from Katra.The service will be operational for six days a week with no train on Wednesday, railways said. More trains would be deployed depending on demand at a later stage, officials added. From Saturday, a pair of Vande Bharat trains will...Read More
New Delhi: Under-fire IPL champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday said it will co-operate with all the legal proceedings after an FIR was registered against it in connection with the stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium in which 11 people were killed. The FIR has been lodged against RCB, Karnataka State Cricket Association, and event management firm DNA Entertainment Networks. "We can't comment on legal proceedings at the moment. But we will co-operate with all the government and judic...Read More
New Delhi: In a move that has sent shockwaves through the American political landscape, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has ignited a heated national debate by floating the idea of creating a new political party aimed at representing what he calls "the 80% in the middle." The proposal, made via a poll on X on Thursday, comes on the heels of a highly publicised feud with President Donald Trump, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two former allies. Musk's p...Read More
New Delhi: The days are about to change when India was dependent on Russia, France, and the United States for ammunition for its artillery. Now, the country is moving towards making its own ammunition. The Defence Research and Development Organisation is working on making indigenous ammunition and making progress in it. According to a report by Economic Times, citing sources, four different types of 155 mm artillery ammunition have been tested in the last two years. These tests turned out to be ...Read More
BENGALURU: The Cubbon Park police investigating the stampede incident that killed 11 persons including two minors during the RCB victory celebrations have registered an FIR against the RCB Franchise, DNA Entertainment Private Limited and Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) Administrative Committee. RCB Franchise is accused number 1, DNA Entertainment Pvt Ltd is accused number 2 and KSCA Administrative Committee is accused number 3, according to the FIR. The suo motu FIR has been register...Read More
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Thursday denied a communication gap between him and the party leadership, and maintained that his statements during the global outreach programmes aligned with the party's stand. Speaking to this newspaper upon his return as member of one of the seven all-party delegations, Khurshid sought to clear the air on the controversies, pointing out that domestic and global politics were clearly demarcated. Khurshid's remark...Read More
COIMBATORE: The meeting between auditor S Gurumurthy and former Chennai Corporation Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy held with PMK leader S Ramadoss on Thursday, was a personal meeting and the BJP had nothing to do with it, said BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran. Nagenthran visited Erode on Thursday to pay condolences to BJP Modakurichi MLA Dr C Saraswathi's daughter Karunambika Kumar and met media persons at Coimbatore airport. He said that the issue within PMK is an internal issue and it cannot ...Read More
BENGALURU: A new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) will be introduced for large-scale meetings, events, and victory celebrations, Home Minister G Parameshwara said after inspecting the M Chinnaswamy Stadium along with senior police officials, where the stampede occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Abandoned shoes, slippers, flags and broken glass doors littered the footpath outside the stadium. Parameshwara told reporters, "An incident like the one that occurred on Wednesday has never happened in ...Read More
MUMBAI: After her return from a four-country tour as part of India's global outreach against terrorism following Operation Sindoor, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MP Supriya Sule said on Thursday that she could not sign the letter to participate in the Opposition INDIA coalition's meet to prepare to debate India's action post-Pahalgam attack at a special session in the Parliament, as in doing so both she and her party would at once come across as double-faced. "On the one hand, delegations (se...Read More
Bengaluru Stampede: A day after a deadly stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium claimed 11 lives during Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) IPL victory celebration, the Karnataka government has swung into damage-control mode. On Thursday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced sweeping actions- the suspension of top police officials, a judicial probe, and a criminal case against RCB, the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), and event organiser DNA Networks. Under this, four arrests have be...Read More
MUMBAI: The death of a number of goats, transported in large numbers to the city ahead of Bakri Eid on Saturday, has placed the civic-run abattoir in Deonar under scrutiny. Traders who have brought goats from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, claim that as many as 300 animals have perished due to pitiable conditions at the slaughterhouse, administrative negligence and lack of proper infrastructure. As the trucks carrying the goats lined up to enter the abattoir, the animals were crammed in ...Read More
Bengaluru city police late on Thursday (June 5, 2025) night arrested a top official of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) franchise and three from the event management company DNA Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., who organised the victory celebrations for the team in the city that led to stampede and 11 deaths. Editorial | Trampled over: On the RCB cup celebration and Bengaluru stampede The arrests came hours after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced at a press conference the suspension of city p...Read More
New Delhi: State-owned Central Bank of India on Thursday said it acquired a 25.18 per cent stake in Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Limited (FGILICL) for a cash consideration of Rs 57 crore as part of the insolvency process. With the acquisition of 65,43,80,439 shares on Wednesday (June 4), the bank has ventured into the insurance sector, Central Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. At present, Central Bank of India has 25.28 per cent stake in FGILICL, which had earned a gros...Read More
After the banned CPI (Maoist)'s general secretary Nambala Keshava Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in an encounter with security forces on May 22, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated that Naxalism will be eliminated from the country by March 31, 2026. In the Congress-ruled Telangana, however, B Mahesh Kumar Goud, the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president, says that the government should not use iron fist to wipe out Maoists but deal with them through "legal and constitutiona...Read More
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Bakra-Eid, the Delhi government has issued an advisory warning against the illegal slaughtering of cows, calves, camels, and other prohibited animals. The advisory, released on Thursday, mandates that all sacrificial rituals must occur at designated locations, banning sacrifices on streets or public spaces. It also prohibits sharing photos of sacrificial acts on social media to prevent the glorification of illegal practices. Minister of Development Kapil Mishra emphasised th...Read More
NEW DELHI: Two persons were arrested following a shootout for allegedly killing a man in south Delhi's Mehrauli area. A third conspirator was also nabbed in connection with the case, a police official said on Thursday. According to police, the murder may be linked to personal enmity or a property dispute. "Further details will emerge after sustained interrogation," said an officer. "A PCR call was received on May 15 around 12:45 pm regarding a firing incident near the bus stop at CDR Chowk. A ...Read More