Prominent Vokkaliga pontiff of Adi Chunchanagiri Nirmalananda Natha Swamiji on Sunday appealed to the Congress leadership to appoint Karnataka party unit president D K Shivakumar as the next chief minister of the state.
It is early to make out which way the wind is blowing, but there is no denying that challenges for the BJP, far outweigh the advantages in this region, notes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi paid tributes to Pandit Nehru at his memorial Shanti Van in the nation's capital.
Internet services were fully restored after 10 days, while the administration relaxed the curfew from 5 am to 8 pm, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday offered prayers at a Matua temple in Bangladesh's Orakandi, the birthplace of Hindu mystic figure and Matua community's spiritual guru Harichand Thakur.
'They know that if they do not tie up with the Congress, then the minorities will move to the Congress.'
There is, between Rao's tenure as PM and the current Modi regime, a powerful resonance of how transition can be managed. Rao's tenure saw many scams -- one where he was supposedly approached by Harshad Mehta with a bribe for making the securities scam go away. The Opposition insisted on a JPC. Despite knowing a JPC report would undermine him politically, Rao agreed to one, saying he had 'nothing to hide'.
Pratyusha's parents slam their daughter's boyfriend after a prayer meet in their daughter's memory.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he and the party do not agree with Digvijaya Singh's comments on surgical strikes and that the armed forces do not need to give any proof.
'I am relieved it is coming together well for me. A win is a win and I will take that happily.'
'She was bubbling with energy, had so much stamina and endurance, that I find it hard to believe that she has left us.'
The scarcity of resources is particularly evident in the case of Rajasthan compared to many other states.
Rishabh Pant was hospitalised following a major car crash on Friday.
Officials said security personnel, including those from paramilitary forces, have been deployed to keep a strict vigil. Security at inter-state and inter-district borders has also been tightened, they said.
Britain's King Charles III visited the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Luton on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, and met volunteers at the langar, which provides vegetarian hot meals 24-hour a day throughout the year.
The film industry turned up to pay their last respects to the iconic director.
As a precautionary measure, the Nuh district administration has already ordered the closure of educational institutions and banks on Monday, suspended mobile Internet and bulk SMS services, and imposed prohibitory orders in the communally-sensitive district.
Pakistan's Shia Ismaili Muslims on Thursday buried the bus attack victims who were killed by Islamic State militants
Srinagar Senior Superintendent of Police Rakesh Balwal, who has expertise in handling terror-related cases, has been "prematurely" repatriated to Manipur cadre where a fresh bout of violence has worsened the already tense situation.
The distinguished actress Shaukat Kaifi, mother to Shabana and Baba Azmi, passed away on September 22.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and the tribal face of the party, Vishnu Deo Sai, on Wednesday took oath as the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, 10 days after the saffron party returned to power after a gap of five years by unseating Congress in the assembly elections.
Young and old, rich or poor, Indians across the country paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 149th birth anniversary. In fact, even Twitter has unveiled a 'Gandhi Emoji' which users around the world can use in their tweets to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday.
'Her Saturday screenings at Yash Raj Studio were a much awaited weekly event marked on all our calenders. 'Her CAREFULLY curated meals were a delight and fabulous. LOVE YOU PAMMY.'
Kareena, Karisma, Abhishek and the Kapoors pay a visit.
The base camps of Pamba and Nilackal witnessed intensified protests as the Lord Ayyappa temple opens for the five-day monthly pooja on Wednesday evening, for the first time after the landmark top court verdict.
Some of the Shortlisted finalists for the Sony World Photography Awards.
...close to the 2024 general election. The BJP calling the Congress 'seasonal Hindu' is as laughable as the saffron party sparing itself the title of 'seasonal extreme Hindu.'
How else should one describe its election campaigns of the past years?
It was typically obsessive religion and personality cult with economic development for fig leaf, asserts Shyam G Menon.
The wrestlers have been sitting on protest since April 23, demanding the arrest of WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh alleging that he has sexually harassed seven female grapplers, including one minor.
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The differences between the two communities were resolved in the panchayat on Thursday night, according to the application Mohammad wrote to police.
A prayer meeting was held at Sadaiv Atal -- the memorial to Vajpayee -- to mark the birth anniversary of the former prime minister.
Shinde will spend the night at Radisson Blu hotel, the same hotel where the then rebel MLAs had stayed in June.
The Dalai Lama had apologised to a boy, his family and friends for the 'hurt his words may have caused', after a video clip purportedly showing the Tibetan spiritual head asking him to 'suck' his tongue sparked a row.
After undergoing surgery for an undisclosed aliment over a month ago, Sonia Gandhi on Sunday made her first public appearance when she attended a prayer meeting at Raj Ghat on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 142nd birth anniversary.
'I hope this win inspires boys and girls who watch thousands of dreams and want to make them come true.'
This past week, His Holiness has been in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, the Union Territory where Indian and Chinese soldiers have been in a standoff for two years, since April 2020.
On the sixteenth anniversary of Uphaar fire tragedy, the families of the victims held a prayer meeting in the memory of 59 persons who died in the theatre here and vowed to resolutely continue their fight for justice.
Friends and colleagues console Vishal Bhardwaj who lost his mother on Sunday.
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
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