AYODHYA/LUCKNOW: The noose seems to be tightening around former Ram Temple Trust member Anil Mishra. In the latest development, VHP vice-president and former Trust general secretary Champat Rai has claimed that the standard operating procedures (SOPs) were jointly framed by Mishra and State Bank of India officials in Feb 2025 without his knowledge or approval.In…
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson) Cristiano Ronaldo has said Portugal’s historic UEFA Euro 2016 triumph holds the same emotional value to him as winning the FIFA World Cup, despite the World Cup being widely regarded as football’s ultimate prize. The Portugal captain made the remarks after his country’s 1-0 defeat to Spain in the…
Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt (AI-generated image) Franklin D. Roosevelt said this in a speech on the fourteenth of April, 1939, months before the Second World War began. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds,” he told the audience. “They have within themselves the power to…
NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Tuesday continued its ongoing protest at Jantar Mantar for the fourth consecutive day, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET-UG paper leak controversy and alleged lapses in the education system.As part of its protest programme, the organisation announced a “diaper donation drive”…
Have you ever stared at a blank wall of doubt and wondered if anything will ever change? Barack Obama‘s words cut right through that fog. From community organizer to becoming a world leader, Obama knew hopelessness very well. But with time and experience, he learned how to turn it into fuel. This quote is an…
DHARWAD: A 29-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband over dowry demands and repeated taunts about her weight in Hanasi village of Navalgund taluk in Dharwad district. Police have arrested four persons, including the husband, in connection with the murder.The victim has been identified as Priyanka Kamalakar, 29.The prime accused, Basavaraj Waddar,…
NEW DELHI: Putting a child’s right to know about his biological father on a higher pedestal in comparison to a person’s right to privacy not to be compelled to undergo a DNA test, Supreme Court has directed a man to go through the test on a paternity suit filed by a youth who claims to…
LUCKNOW: With the tenure of gram panchayats across Uttar Pradesh ending on Tuesday, the state government has issued an order allowing outgoing 57,694 gram pradhans to continue in administrative roles until fresh panchayat bodies are constituted.The Panchayati Raj Department clarified that the five-year term of gram panchayats elected after the 2021 elections will formally conclude…
India’s Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (SLC via PTI Photo) Vaibhav Sooryavanshi delivered a breathtaking exhibition of power-hitting to propel India A to a commanding 66-run victory over Sri Lanka A in the final of the tri-series on Sunday.The teenage sensation smashed 94 off just 29 deliveries, producing one of the most destructive innings seen in List A…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday allowed the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction to hold its annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally at a site near the Birla Planetarium instead of its traditional venue in front of Victoria House in central Kolkata.Justice Saugata Bhattacharya directed the Kolkata Police to shift the venue,…