Om Sri Maha Athi Nageswari Amman Temple is reportedly launched in the new township of Puchong Gateway (Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia), after about four years of work. Dedicated to snake goddess Nageswari Amman, manifestation of Devi, this unique temple consists of four raja gopurams (monumental entrance towers) with two entrances, 65 feet-high Shiva Lingam (flown from […]
New Delhi, Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay on Tuesday described the relationship between India and Bhutan as a model relationship between neighbours. He said this in a meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during the course of which the two leaders discussed bilateral relations. Tobgay was on a transit visit to India on his […]
New Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to use ‘nationalism’ to create a ‘fear psychosis’, and said it was wrong to dub JNU as “a terrorist centre”. In a letter to Modi, Kejriwal urged the prime minister to act against “lumpen and anarchist elements” like Delhi BJP […]
Chennai/Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), A tearful final farewell was given on Tuesday to four soldiers from Tamil Nadu and one from Andhra Pradesh who were buried alive in an avalanche on the hostile Siachen glacier on February 3. All of them belonged to the Madras Regiment and their last rites were performed with full military honours. […]
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to furnish a list of companies which are in default of loans by banks and financial institutions in excess of Rs.500 crore or whose loans have been restructured under corporate debts restructuring scheme. While asking the RBI to file an affidavit, a […]
New Delhi, The BJP on Tuesday won four seats and the Congress two as the ruling NDA bettered the opposition in by-elections for 12 seats held across eight states three days ago. Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) was the worst sufferer. The SP lost two of the three seats it held in Uttar Pradesh […]
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday refused to put on hold criminal proceedings against Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald case but expunged all adverse observations, inferences and conclusions by the high court. A bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan also exempted […]
Mumbai, Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley on Friday said the global terror network Al Qaeda wanted to attack India’s National Defence College in New Delhi as he also revealed a medley of Lashkar-e-Taiba plans to strike terror in the country. Headley, who has been testifying through video-conferencing since Monday before a special court in Mumbai […]
Mumbai, Less-than-expected earning results, combined with negative European indices and a weak rupee dragged the Indian equity markets to their lowest levels in over 21 months on Thursday. Bearish sentiments led a barometer index of the Indian equity markets to provisionally close the day’s trade down 807 points. Indian equity markets continued to decline for […]
New Delhi, The odd-even traffic scheme aimed at curbing pollution will be back in Delhi from April 15 to 30, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. He told a news conference that this was decided following feedback from the people of Delhi in the wake of the January 1-15 experiment which he and his […]