Temples across Uttar Pradesh were packed with devotees on Sunday for Ram Navami, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath leading prayers at the Gorakhnath Temple. Heavy crowds were witnessed at temples in Lucknow, Gorakhpur, and Varanasi, where security was heightened. In Gorakhpur, Adityanath performed the traditional kanya pujan ritual, while in Varanasi, a 51-foot statue of Lord Ram has become a major attraction. The festival was celebrated with enthusiastic fervor across the state.
The BJP released a sting video shot purportedly by a former AAP volunteer from north west Delhi's Rohini to allege the AAP sold tickets for Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.
BJP and RSS leaders are once again pushing to remove the words 'secular' and 'socialist' from the Constitution's Preamble, showing a deeper effort to change India's identity from a diverse, multi-religious republic to a Hindu-first nation, even though they don't have the numbers in Parliament to officially change the Constitution, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Under the instructions of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the CBI had probed the disappearance of tigers from Sariska, which revealed that Chand was the man primarily responsible.\n
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In a thumping performance, Bharatiya Janata Party candidates emerged victorious in all seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi by margin of more than one lakh votes as the party's vote share neared the 50 per cent mark.
The threshold for a heat wave is met when the maximum temperature of a weather station reaches at least 40 degrees Celsius in the plains, 37 degrees in coastal areas, and 30 degrees in hilly regions, and the departure from normal is at least 4.5 notches.
US strikes on Iran's three main nuclear facilities have once again raised concerns that Tehran might shut down the Strait of Hormuz - one of the world's most critical chokepoints, through which a fifth of global oil and gas supply flows.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.
Vietnam was wonderful and the people warm and hospitable, Radhika Mittal discovered over a 11-day stay.
Gautam Gambhir's position as India's head coach is under scrutiny following a string of disappointing results and reports of discontent within the team.
'That refresh programme -- because they are big aircraft and we cannot ground them all at the same time -- will last well into 2027.'
According to a report prepared by the NGO, 106 people have died due to cold in Delhi between January 1 and January 19.
'Dharmendra, Shashi Kapoor and I were inseparable while we struggled together.' 'When a disillusioned Dharmendra was packing his bags to return home, I prevailed upon him to give himself two months.' 'Five days later, he was signed for Shola Aur Shabnam and I signed Picnic.'
This second tranche of citizenship certificates were issued on Wednesday, days before the final phase of voting for Lok Sabha polls on June 1.
'...despite all his horses, elephants, tanks and swords.' 'A determination to hold fast to Sambhaji Maharaj's father, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's thoughts, ideals, and principles.'
DCP (North West Delhi) N S Bundela said cash rewards will be given to anyone providing information about Mandeep (23), Ankit (22) and Nakul alias Nikku (21) -- who allegedly murdered Monica along with her husband Kuldeep on Sunday for marrying in another caste.
An Indian-American youth, who returned to New Delhi last month to pursue studies, was on Monday found murdered at his rented house in north-west Delhi. Kannan Mehra (21), who was pursuing philosophy course in Delhi University, was found with stab wounds on his neck at his residence in Hudson Lane in Mukherjee Nagar by his landlord, a senior police official said.
India is expected to experience hotter-than-usual temperatures from April to June, with more heatwave days in central and eastern India and the northwestern plains, the IMD said. Most parts of the country will see higher-than-normal maximum temperatures, except for some areas in western and eastern India where the temperatures are expected to be normal. Minimum temperatures will also be above normal in most regions. The IMD has warned that landslides could occur in parts of Kerala and Karnataka in the Western Ghats and that northeastern states might face flooding in April.
...'hum decide karenge kaun banega mukhyamantri. This decision is not to be taken in Mumbai.'
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rishabh Pant dined at Bastian in Mumbai.
A habeas corpus petition was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela for listing on October 3 by a lawyer for Wangchuk's "next friend".
Between 2014 and 2019, he scored 21 centuries in just 55 Tests. Among these were seven double centuries, the most by an Indian in Test cricket. Remarkably, six of those double tons came within a span of just 22 Tests.
A seven-year-old girl was raped allegedly by an unidentified man inside a municipal school in the national capital, the police said on Friday.
The voter turnout is 1.28% higher than 65.86% polling in 2013 assembly polls.
Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt spent Saturday morning listening to Prime Minister Narendra D Modi when the PM traveled to Mumbai to address the 141st International Olympic Committee session at the Jio World Centre in north west Mumbai.
Three suspected Babbar Khalsa terrorists were arrested in north-west Delhi early Monday morning, police sources said.
Four earthquakes, the strongest being of magnitude 6.2, jolted Nepal in quick succession with tremors reverberating through parts of north India including Delhi-NCR, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said on Tuesday.
Police forces of several states were on the look out for him.
Indian Armed Forces brought down a number of these drones using kinetic and non-kinetic means.
Among the fatalities recorded on Friday, the maximum 17 were from Uttar Pradesh, 14 from Bihar, five from Odisha and four from Jharkhand, where officials said more than 1,300 people are hospitalised with heatstroke conditions.
Unhappy over his daughter's love affair, a man allegedly shot her dead in broad daylight in a north-west Delhi.
He had taken charge as the 25th director general of the Indian Coast Guard on July 19 last year.
In an order, the government's Drugs Control Department said that the step has been taken to address reports of "acute shortage of COVID-19 management drugs due to a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in Delhi".
Pankaj Gupta filed his nomination papers for the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, Atishi for East Delhi, Gugan Singh North West Delhi, Raghav Chadha South Delhi, Dilip Pandey North East Delhi and Brajesh Goel for New Delhi.
The latest earthquake was also felt in parts of Noida and Greater Noida, adjoining Delhi, prompting several people living in high-rises to rush out of their buildings.
John Abraham made news this week when it was revealed that he had bought property in Mumbai worth Rs 70 crore (Rs 700 million).
The device, lying in a garbage heap in an isolated area in Model Town, went off when Ram Murti (50) and his two-year-old grandson picked it up.
Five members of a family, including two children, were killed in an accident on Friday after a speeding SUV hit their car in north-west Delhi.The incident took place in Trinagar area, a senior police official said.All the five occupants of the car were killed in the accident, the official said, adding they suspect that the person behind the wheel of the SUV was under the influence of alcohol.The two girls who were killed in the accident died on the spot.
A sudden downpour in Delhi caught citizens off guard and caused heavy waterlogging and traffic jams on Tuesday while Mumbai breathed a sigh of relief as showers stopped a day after heavy rain brought the metropolis to its knees.
