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Largest Hindu Temple in Southern Hemisphere Opened in South Africa

February 2, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Feb 2: The largest Hindu temple and cultural complex in the southern hemisphere was unveiled in Johannesburg on Sunday with scores of worshippers participating in a ceremony to mark the occasion. Although less than two percent of South Africans identify as Hindu, it is the most followed religion among the country’s Indian community. […]

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Congress “EAGLE” to Monitor ECI Conducting Free and Fair Elections

February 2, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Feb 2: The Congress on Sunday set up an eight-member committee — Empowered Action Group of Leaders and Experts (EAGLE) — to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections by the Election Commission of India. The committee will first take up the Maharashtra voters’ list manipulation issue, and submit a detailed report […]

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Row over Union Minister’s Advice to Declare Kerala a Backward State

February 2, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 2: The BJP leader and the union minister of state George Kurian’s advice that Kerala should declare itself a backward state to get higher budgetary allocations from the Centre and the state BJP president supporting the stand has fuelled a controversy with both the ruling CPM and the opposition Congress […]

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India Under 19 Women Lifts T20 World Cup

February 2, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Feb 2: An utterly dominant reigning champion India on Sunday won the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup under 19 by defeating a hapless South Africa by nine wickets with more than eight overs to spare in the final match played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to emerge as the first Indian team in the […]

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Union Budget: BJP Hopes to Win Delhi

February 1, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 1: The BJP’s dominance in the northern states is unmistakable but at the main seat of power, Delhi, the power has eluded the party so far, even though the party was winning all the seven seats in the Lok Sabha from the national capital region for the last two terms. […]

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Union Budget: Bonanza for Bihar before Assembly Polls

February 1, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Sending a strong message to the people of Bihar, who will vote for the state Assembly elections later this year, that staying with the NDA matters, the union finance minister Nirmala Sitharamn on Saturday made a series of announcements aligned with Bihar’s financial and political interests. While presenting the […]

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8 Maoists Killed in Chhattisgarh

February 1, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Eight Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. The police said the gunfight broke out around 8.30 am in the forest in Gangaloor police station area when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation. Personnel of the District […]

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7 AAP MLAs Resign, But were Not Given Party Ticket

January 31, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 31: In a major blow to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, seven AAP MLAs have resigned just five days before voting in the Delhi election. None of them got party ticket to contest the election again. The MLAs who resigned are Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Rohit Kumar (Trilokpuri), […]

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BJP Mounts Attack on Sonia Gandhi for her Remarks on Droupadi Murmu

January 31, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 31: The Budget Session of Parliament began with a fresh controversy on Friday morning after the BJP twisting her remarks mounted an attack on the former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for calling the President Droupadi Murmu a “poor thing” and the Rashtrapati Bhavan branding her remark as “in poor taste, […]

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Maha Kumbh Stampede: UP Government Revamps Security, Private Vehicles Banned Entry in Prayagraj

January 30, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Taking a cue from the unfortunate stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Wednesday in which at last 30 people were killed and over 60 injured, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday ramped up efforts to ensure crowd management and safety of devotees who continued to flock […]