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PM Narendra Modi praised Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Ujjwal Nikam, C Sadanandan Master, and Meenakshi Jain. They have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Modi acknowledged their contributions to India. He highlighted their expertise in diplomacy, law, social work, and history. The President nominated these individuals. They are eminent figures in their respective fields. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the contributions of former foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, special public ...Read More >
Vasai: Days after a video showing an autorickshaw driver's refusal to converse in Marathi had gone viral, the driver was traced and assaulted by a group of men, allegedly from Shiv Sena (UBT), Saturday afternoon. A case of rioting has been filed against at least eight people.The rickshaw driver, Raju Patwa who plies his vehicle from Virar (east) autorickshaw stand, had in the viral video defiantly said that he would speak only Bhojpuri and Hindi, and would not speak Marathi. The video went viral ...Read More >
Mumbai: Advocate Ujjwal Nikam, special public prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai Bomb Blasts and other large terror trials, was on Saturday nominated to the Rajya Sabha as one of the four Presidential nominees. Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke the news to him on Saturday night around 9pm, said Nikam. "I received a call from PM Modi. He began by saying in Marathi, "Mi Marathit Bolu ka Hindi?' (should I speak in Marathi or Hindi?" I laughed a little but he laughed heartily," Nikam smiled while speaki ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) Noted lawyer Ujjwal Nikam, who is among four persons nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu, on Sunday said PM Modi called him to inform the news. "Modi ji speaks excellent Marathi. He begins some of his speeches in Maharashtra in Marathi and then switches to Hindi," Nikam told reporters. "When I received his call and the operator connected me to him, the PM said, 'Ujjwal ji mi Marathit bolu ka Hindi bolu (should I speak in Marathi or Hindi)'," Nikam said. " ...Read More >
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that even though MNS chief Raj Thackeray and Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray came together against imposition of Hindi, their political alliance was not sealed yet. Raut said it was necessary for this alliance to forge, and now there should be no confusion. Raut also said that one day, Raj would come forward and clear the air on his high tea meetings with Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde. Raut made the comments in his weekly column in Se ...Read More >
Palghar, Maharashtra: An autorickshaw driver, Raju Patwa, was publicly assaulted in Vasai on Saturday by a group of individuals associated with the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). The attack, reportedly triggered by Patwa's derogatory remarks about the Marathi language and Maharashtra, was captured on video and has since gone viral, reigniting tensions surrounding the ongoing Marathi-Hindi language divide in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Following t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Sunday expressed gratitude after being nominated to the Rajya Sabha, revealing a moment from his conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Nikam said PM Modi personally called him to share the news and asked, "Should I speak in Hindi or Marathi?" before switching to Marathi for the rest of the conversation, reports news agency ANI."I thank President Droupadi Murmu for nominating me. When I met PM Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha electi ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday, during his visit to Mumbai, called for respecting every language and religion, stressing that fighting over linguistic differences is regressive and unnecessary. Gehlot's comments come in the wake of the ongoing controversy in Maharashtra surrounding the imposition of Hindi in schools and a series of violent incidents involving the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), whose workers were see ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 13 (ANI): Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Sunday expressed gratitude to President Droupadi Murmu after being nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Nikam shared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally informed him about the nomination via a phone call. I thank President Droupadi Murmu for nominating me. When I met PM Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha election campaign, he expressed his faith in me. Yesterday, PM Modi called to inform me about the nomin ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 13 (ANI): Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Sunday expressed gratitude to President Droupadi Murmu after being nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Nikam shared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally informed him about the nomination via a phone call. Also Read | Goods Train Fire in Tamil Nadu: Blaze on Diesel-Laden Freight Train Doused After 7 Hours, 18 Wagons Gutted Near Tiruvallur (Watch Videos). "I thank President Droupadi Murmu for nominating me. ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said it is necessary that his party chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena head Raj Thackeray form an alliance, claiming it will give a "new direction to the state". In his weekly column Rok Thok in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana, Raut also claimed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nothing to do with the fight for Maharashtra's unity and Marathi "asmita" (pride). "The BJP's policy is to first loot Mumbai, ...Read More >
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally informed Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam of his nomination to the Rajya Sabha, in a candid and heartfelt phone call on Saturday, July 12. "PM Modi called me and asked if he should speak in Hindi or in Marathi. Both of us started laughing," Nikam said, adding that the Prime Minister then switched to Marathi and told him that the President wished to entrust him with new responsibilities. "I immediately said yes," Nikam told reporters in Mumb ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - In India, the land of more than a thousand tongues, few things inflame passions more than language. Touching the hot button comes with political peril. Just ask the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. High-profile brawls have erupted recently over Mr Modi's push for the nationwide adoption of Hindi, the language of his power base in northern India and a symbol of his campaign to unify the country around the ideology of Hindu nationalism. Late in June, the government of Mah ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 12 (PTI) AICC general secretary K C Venugopal on Saturday claimed that the central government was not taking any steps to intervene with the execution of Nimisha Priya, a nurse from the state convicted of murder in Yemen. Venugopal contended that it was "sad" that the Centre was not showing any urgency in the matter despite the issue being brought to the attention of the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Ministry. Also Read | Maharashtra Language Row: 'Everyone Sh ...Read More >
Kochi, Jul 12 (PTI) A special NIA court has revoked the order of attachment in connection with 10 properties that were linked with Popular Front of India (PFI) which was banned by the Centre in 2022 for its alleged links with global terrorist organisations. Special NIA court judge P K Mohandas revoked, for varying reasons, the attachment order passed in 2022 by the Designated Authority under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in respect of all the properties. Also Read | Maharasht ...Read More >
Mumbai: Political parties across the spectrum expressed their happyness, following the inclusion of 12 forts constructed by Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Unesco World Heritage List. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Eknath Shinde extended their gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for facilitating the achievement. The BJP planned to commemorate the occasion with Shiv Aarti events throughout Mumbai during the weekend, including at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahara ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 12 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday claimed that there could be a "conspiracy" behind erosion-hit and landless people moving 200-300 kms away from their native places to settle in areas where "Hindus or Assamese Muslims" are in the majority. Sarma also asserted that demographic balance is being threatened due to such migration of people in places where his government carried out eviction drives to clear encroached land. Also Read | Maharashtra Language R ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Jul 12 (PTI) The Telangana government has issued an ordinance facilitating 42 per cent reservation to Backward Classes in local body polls by amending an Act that was passed by the State Assembly in 2018, officials said on Saturday. The state cabinet on July 10 decided to issue the ordinance. Also Read | Maharashtra Language Row: 'Everyone Should Learn Marathi, We Are Also Trying', Says Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. Addressing leaders of backward class associations who called ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 12 (ANI): The Centre is trying to make available technology in three to four months to different private factories to ramp up rare earth magnets production in India, said Union Minister for Coal and Mines, G Kishan Reddy. "We used to be 100% dependent on China for permanent magnets of the rare earths. But recently, China has refused to supply. With this view, the Indian government is making efforts for permanent magnet manufacturing," Kishan Reddy told ANI. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) There is a need to further ascertain why the engines of the Air India flight 171 shut down soon after the plane took off, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Saturday, noting that the pilots might have turned the fuel switches off and on within a fraction of a second to re-start the engines after they flamed out. Talking to reporters here, Rudy, himself a commercial pilot, said a preliminary report of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), released on Saturday, ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 12 (ANI): Television actress Manjula, also known as Shruti, is undergoing treatment at Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru after she was brutally attacked and stabbed multiple times by her husband, Amaresh, on July 4. The accused has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody, police said on Friday. The incident took place on July 4, and Shruti has now been discharged from the hospital. The Hanumantha Nagar police have registered a case in this regard and have ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Commercial Pilot and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Saturday said that the deployment of Ram Air Turbine (RAT) and the start of Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) operations in the crashed Air India flight 171 indicates towards engine failure. "It's a preliminary report. In the first stage report, the government is coming out with the facts of what happened inside the aircraft. The facts are that the aircraft ran up to a speed that is required ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) A key witness in the Pul Bangash Gurdwara case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Saturday told a Delhi court that she was not pressured by the CBI or Sikh leaders to "falsely" implicate Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. Earlier on Friday, Harpal Kaur Bedi, an eyewitness to the killing of three men by a mob that torched the north Delhi gurdwara during the riots, had deposed that she had seen Tytler instigating the mob and asking them to "loot and kill the Sikhs". Also ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 12 (ANI): Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that the Indian Army continues to receive the special blessings of Maa Kali, as he stated that Indian forces successfully destroyed nine terror camps located in Pakistan during a recent operation named Operation Sindoor. He added that the operation saw active participation from both male and female personnel, including women soldiers and pilots. Also Read | Maharashtra Language Row: 'Everyone ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 12: Jagadguru Shankaracharya Maharaj Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati responded on Saturday to the ongoing Marathi-Hindi language debate in Maharashtra, expressing support for the Marathi language and emphasising its importance. Speaking to IANS, he said: "Everyone should learn Marathi, and we are also making efforts in that direction. When we leave here, we will try to communicate in Marathi. Some brothers are very eager to teach Marathi, and if such people guide us, we will learn qui ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Jagadguru Shankaracharya Maharaj Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati responded on Saturday to the ongoing Marathi-Hindi language debate in Maharashtra, expressing support for the Marathi language and emphasising its importance. Speaking to IANS, he said: "Everyone should learn Marathi, and we are also making efforts in that direction. When we leave here, we will try to communicate in Marathi. Some brothers are very eager to teach Marathi, and if such people guide us, w ...Read More >
Mumbai: Global icon and Hollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra Jonas adds yet another accolade to her illustrious career as her production house, Purple Pebble Pictures, celebrates a major victory at the Filmfare Awards Marathi 2025. The critically acclaimed film Paani swept multiple top honors, cementing its place as a cinematic triumph with a powerful message. A joint venture between Purple Pebble Pictures, Neha Barjatya, and Rajshri Entertainment, Paani sheds light on the pressing issue of wate ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra is currently busy promoting her upcoming film KD: The Devil, which is slated for release on July 10, 2026. The film, which also stars Dhruva Sarja, Vijay Sethupathi, Nora Fatehi, and Sanjay Dutt, has already generated significant buzz. In an exclusive conversation with ETV Bharat, Shilpa opened up about her role, the film's scale, and her return to Tollywood after nearly two decades. Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Sanjay Dutt was ...Read More >
Bikaner (Rajasthan) [India], July 12 (ANI): Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal responded to the ongoing Hindi-Marathi language row, saying the Government of India is committed to promoting and respecting all Indian languages under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said, "This is part of the National Education Policy 2020. The Government of India has clearly stated that whatever the Indian language may be, we will respect it and promote i ...Read More >
Bikaner (Rajasthan) [India], July 12 (ANI): Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal responded to the ongoing Hindi-Marathi language row, saying the Government of India is committed to promoting and respecting all Indian languages under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said, This is part of the National Education Policy 2020. The Government of India has clearly stated that whatever the Indian language may be, we will respect it and promote it ...Read More >
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