CONG CALLS FOR DISSOLVING AYODHYA’S RAM MANDIR TRUST
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Modi’s silence on a big loot from the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and wanted dissolution of the trust he had set up to run the temple s the people have lost confidence in it. Party spokesman Akhilesh Pratap Singh told a press conference here that the […]
PASSPORT VALID DOCUMENT FOR ELECTION COMMISSION
NEW DELHI: Election Commission officials have clarified that Indian passports continue to be among the 12 valid supporting documents required by voters to prove their eligibility to be on the voters’ list under the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls. They were responding to a query following a controversy that arose after the Ministry […]
LOT OF SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PM MODI AND TRUMP
NEW DELHI: Despite the recent turbulence in India-US ties, the personal chemistry between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump remains the ultimate anchor of the relationship, said US Ambassador Sergio Gor. Gor, who has worked closely with Trump, emerging as one of his most trusted aides, said there were a lot of […]
SECOND EARTHQUAKE IN PAKISTAN
NEW DELHI: A 5.4-magnitude earthquake in Richter Scale struck Pakistan on Saturday, just hours after a 5.3-magnitude tremor shook the country on Friday evening, adding to concerns over heightened seismic activity across several parts of the world. The latest quake comes as Venezuela continues to grapple with the aftermath of two devastating earthquakes that have […]
SC SETTLES 7-DECADE OLD LAND DISPUTE
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court recently decided a seventy-year-old land dispute by upholding a sale deed signed in 1957. Four generations of a family got embroiled in the litigation for over seven decades. A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and NV Anjaria finally decided a seven-decade-old dispute over 15.5 bighas in Narsipur Kalan village […]
CHAMPAT RAI QUITS AMID RAM MANDIR DONATION ROW
NEW DELHI: Champat Rai, 80-year old general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, an independent body that manages the Ayodhya shrine, and trustee Anil Mishra have submitted their resignations, an official confirmed. Champat Rai hailing from Bijnor district in U.P. is a vice-president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and he was the […]
MANY DELHI DUST STORMS BECAUSE OF BROKEN ARAVALLI SHIELD
NEW DELHI: Delhi faced many dust storms this June because of the slow collapse of its natural defence: Aravallis, one of the planet’s oldest mountain systems, a 650km spine of hills that runs from Delhi through Haryana and Rajasthan into Gujarat. For ages, it has worked as a natural wall, blunting the hot, sand-laden winds […]
YOUR ANDROID MOBILE CAN ALERT ON EARTHQUAKE
NEW DELHI: Millions of people in Venezuela received a warning on their Android phones moments before the ground began to shake. The alert arrived only seconds before a powerful earthquake struck the South American nation. Yet those few seconds were enough to reignite a global conversation around one question: Can technology help save lives when […]
AMAZON TO INVEST $48 BILLION IN INDIA OVER 4 YEARS: ITS CEO TELLS PM MODI
NEW DELHI: US e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday announced to invest a total of $48 billion to expand and support its businesses in India from 2026-2030, as its CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. Jassy reiterated Amazon’s long-term commitment to India and announced plans to invest an additional $13 billion to expand […]
PASSPORT IS NOT PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
NEW DELHI: The passport is not proof of citizenship, government sources stressed this week after a furious debate online on that topic. The debate was sparked by a foreign ministry official’s remark that a passport is only a travel document. till now many believed it recognised the holder as an Indian citizen. But now the […]
