VARANASI: Shakhas would welcome all those who respect the ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai‘ slogan and ‘bhagwa jhanda’ (saffron flag). RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said this on Sunday morning at a shakha here while replying to a question whether Muslims could attend shakhas.On a four-day visit to Varanasi, Bhagwat attended a shakha at Lajpat Nagar Colony….
PM Modi waves to the Indian Coast Guard ship during the inauguration of New Pamban Bridge (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi while inaugurating the new Pamban rail sea-bridge in Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram on Sunday spoke about the Gujarat link to the old bridge and its replacement.“A hundred years ago, the old Pamban…
Screengrab of tweet by West Bengal BJP NEW DELHI: The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday alleged Hindu devotees carrying saffron flags were “savagely attacked” in Kolkata’s Park Circus area while returning from a Ram Navami procession. The Kolkata Police, however, denied that any such procession took place.“As the Ram…
Chief justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna offered prayers to Lord Venkateswara at the Tirumala temple on Sunday. As this was Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s maiden visit to the Tirumala temple in the capacity as the CJI, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams priests and officials led by EO J Syamala Rao and Additional EO Ch Venkaiah Chowdary extended…
NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu BJP on Sunday launched a scathing attack on chief minister M K Stalin, accusing him of “insulting” Prime Minister Narendra Modi by skipping his official programme in Rameswaram. The PM was in the coastal town to inaugurate several infrastructure projects, including the much-awaited new Pamban Bridge.While Modi inaugurated development works…
PM Modi and P Chidambaram NEW DELHI: Congress veteran and ex-Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Sunday argued that “economic matric will always be higher than in the previous years,” as he responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s statement that the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre allocated more funds to Tamil…
File: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday claimed his former ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would now go after the land belonging to Christians, Jains, Buddhists, as well as Hindu temples, citing an article in the Organiser, the mouthpiece of BJP’s ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the newly built Pamban Railway Bridge, India’s first vertical lift sea bridge, linking the pilgrim town of Rameswaram with the mainland, and flagged off the Rameswaram-Tambaram train and a Coast Guard ship, marking a major infrastructure milestone in Tamil Nadu.Visuals showed first train crossing new Pamban…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a potshot at the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government amid the ongoing language row and advised the leaders of the state to at least sign their names in Tamil.During a public address in Rameswaram, PM Modi said that the central government is working to ensure that the…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Sunday called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address concerns regarding the proposed delimitation exercise. During an official event in Udhagamandalam (Ooty), Stalin emphasised that PM Modi must ensure Parliament passes a resolution safeguarding Tamil Nadu’s rights.Skipping PM Modi’s big ticket event in Rameswaram, Stalin…
