KEDARNATH (UTTARAKHAND): A day after Diwali celebrations in Nowshera with jawans and Army officials near the Line of Control (LoC) of Rajouri Army Division, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached Kedarnath early morning to offer prayers inside the shrine and inaugurate development projects in Uttarakhand. Also Read: Like In Past, Siachen To Jaisalmer, PM […]
JAMMU: Keeping in line with his decision to spend Diwali with soldiers on border since he became the Prime Minister in 2014, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday again visited the forward areas of Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera in Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, PM had visited Siachen in 2014, Amritsar in 2015, Lahaul Spiti […]
DELHI: Barely hours before the festival of lights, India on Wednesday got a Diwali gift from World Health Organisation (WHO) after it granted approval to Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech by accepting its Covid vaccine– Covaxin– that is also India’s first indigenous — for emergency use listing (EUL). “WHO has granted emergency use listing (EUL) to […]
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday accused former Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh of controlled 27 companies through his family members and close associates, which were allegedly used for infusion of “ill gotten” money. Deshmukh was arrested by the ED on Monday night after 12 hours of questioning […]
LUCKNOW: BJP leadership in Uttar Pradesh has taken unkindly to the parallels drawn between Sardar VallabhBhai Patel — his contribution to India’s freedom struggle led saffron party to set up statue in his home state Gujarat— and Mohammad Ali Jinnah by Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav during an address in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi. “One man […]
LUCKNOW: Hundreds of iconic shrines and myriad of tales from religious scripts and epics not just mention Uttar Pradesh as the birth place of Krishna and Rama but also the site where Lord Shiva, Lord Buddha visited extensively. Did no previous chief minister of UP before 2017 ever worked to develop these places for the […]
LUCKNOW: When nearly four-and-half years ago, Prime minister Narendra Modi hit the roads in Uttar Pradesh on poll campaign, he wasted no time in sharing sentiments of his party on the big Hindutva poll plank, questioning the electricity abundance during Eid than Diwali and more money on boundary walls at graveyards than cremation grounds. He […]
NEW DELHI: In a massive relief to thousands of daily commuters, the Delhi Police on Friday initiated the works of removing the barricades placed at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders, which were kept there since November 26 last year to stop the protesting farmers to enter the national capital. Thousands of farmers from Punjab, […]
LUCKNOW: As Opposition parties including Congress have begun to send Delhi leaders to parts of Uttar Pradesh to intensify campaigning to dethrone the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the UP 2022 elections, the saffron outfit has decided to make a public spectacle of its unity and membership drive in Lucknow more frequently. On Friday, […]
Lucknow: With a new line-up including Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur as party’s overall campaign incharges of Uttar Pradesh, Union home minister Amit Shah, who spearheaded party’s poll prospects in 2014 where they bagged 71 out of 80 seats, on Friday dashed to Lucknow to launch a campaign called “Mera Parivar, Bhajpa Parivar. […]