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। We all know that their is no proof available which say that their is such kind of organization exists which control all the economical power of world /country. But we all feel that most of actual authority control by some hidden powers or we can say bouch of people . Some say they are one of richest people some say they are terrorist organizations and some say they are well known political figures .
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Three days before the Allahabad high court is to give its verdict on whether the ASI should survey the Gyanvapi complex, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that the structure shouldn't be called a mosque as that would lead to controversy. "It is Gyanvapi and we must call it that. If I call it a masjid, it'll lead to controversy," he said.
A 21-member delegation of the opposition alliance INDIA visited relief camps in the conflict-hit town of Churachandpur and other places in Manipur on Saturday, and accused the BJP-led central government of being asleep while the state was engulfed in unrest since May 3. The delegation assured the affected people that they were working towards bringing about positive change.
The Congress and the BJP have locked horns over allegations that women students were filmed by placing hidden cameras inside the restrooms of a college at Udupi in Congress-ruled Karnataka with the former refuting the opposition’s charge.
On a day when the opposition’s no-confidence motion against the government was admitted, a confident PM Narendra Modi asserted that he was “guaranteeing” that the pace of development would accelerate during his “third term in office” and India would be among the top three economies.
Vice-president and Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday refuted the allegation of leader of opposition in the House Mallikarjun Kharge’s allegation that his microphone was switched off while he was speaking on the previous day.
Rapping the Centre for its failure to ensure that the constitutional provision on 33% reservation for women in municipal bodies is implemented in Nagaland, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the central government took “extreme steps against states which are not amenable to it” but desisted from taking action in states governed by the same political dispensation.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hold a detailed hearing on a bunch of petitions seeking to bring political parties under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act but underlined obvious limitations. The apex court posted the hearing for August 1 but responded to the petitioners’ clamour for an expeditious adjudication of the long-pending issue by saying, “We do not think we can ask the political parties why they selected a particular candidate to contest from a constituency.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the opposition for blocking the proceedings of Parliament and for branding their grouping as ‘INDIA’, and dismissed the move to bring a no-trust motion as “inconsequential”. “It has been the practice since the British rule to use ‘India’ as a camouflage for vested interests," the PM is learnt to have said at the closed-door meeting of BJP MPs.
Amid the mindless mayhem, there was a small relief for Manipur on Monday as it received its first-ever train, a goods train carrying food and other essential items, which is expected to ease the scarcity of commodities in the violence ravaged state. CM N Biren Singh, who was present at the newly built Khongsang railway station to receive the inaugural freight train, flagged off from Guwahati on Sunday, tweeted his delight at witnessing its “momentous arrival”.
As Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’, which released worldwide to critical acclaim last week, faced accusations of religious insensitivity over a controversial scene featuring a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, Union I&B minister Anurag Thakur demanded “absolute accountability” from the Central Board of Film Certification and asked the filmmakers to promptly remove the scene.
The Supreme Court on Monday stopped the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) till 5pm on Wednesday from conducting a scientific survey/excavation to determine whether a temple had existed on the site of the Gyanvapi mosque next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi to enable the Muslim side to appeal against the district court’s July 21 order allowing the archaeological examination.
The Manipur government’s order to reopen schools has faced significant challenges in violence-affected districts, the latest being miscreants setting fire to a school building near the border of Churachandpur and Bishnupur on Saturday evening amid reports of gunfights between two groups in the region. A woman was hit by a bullet during violence in Kwakta of Bishnupur district. She was rushed to a hospital in Imphal for treatment.
A freedom’s fighter’s 80-year-old widow was burnt alive in her home in Manipur on May 28, while an old video of a burnt woman reported in TOI and other media outlets resurfaced on social media, adding to the series of disturbing events unfolding in the strife-torn state. These reports followed the surfacing of a video on July 19, showing two women being stripped, molested and paraded naked by a mob on May 4, a day after ethnic violence erupted in the state.
A fresh spell of rain in the hill states led to the release of huge volumes of water from the Hathnikund barrage into the Yamuna on Saturday, forcing the Delhi government to issue a warning to people who had moved back to their houses in the low-lying areas. The release rate had increased to 2.51 lakh cusecs on Saturday morning, an engineer said.
Two young tribal women from Manipur’s Kangpokpi working in an Imphal car wash were allegedly gang-raped at their workplace, dragged out and left to die by a mob rampaging through the capital city on May 4, coinciding with the strip-parade horror unfolding 40km away that very day.
The Indian Railways, which remains the cost effective and popular transportation medium for car manufacturers, is likely to introduce redesigned double-decker auto transport wagons in next two weeks. The wagons, redesigned in line with the industry demand, will help in transportation of more cars, especially sport utility vehicles (SUVs), thereby curbing emission and cutting cost.
In one of the biggest natural disasters in Maharashtra, a massive landslide precipitated by over 400mm of rainfall flattened a remote tribal hamlet named Irshalwadi in Khalapur tehsil in the foothills of the Sahyadri range in Raigad district on Wednesday night.
The prime accused and three other suspects from the Manipur mob that paraded two women naked and allegedly gang-raped one of them on May 4 were arrested on Thursday, 63 days after a zero FIR was registered and within 10 hours of a video emerging of the horrific assault that one of the survivors — a Kargil War veteran’s wife — recounted to TOI as akin to being attacked by “wild animals”.
From today (Friday), rail passengers can plan their journey better and book their tickets easily even if they don’t know the exact name of the stations close to their origin or destinations as railways has introduced a new feature of linking popular areas with station names.
At least eight people died in four rain-related accidents in Bani area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Wednesday, even as district authorities closed schools in Kishtwar, Doda, Rajouri and the hilly belt of Kathua due to heavy showers and resultant landslides. Meanwhile, Vaishno Devi and Amarnath Yatra were temporarily suspended in view of inclement weather.
Tension mounted in the hills of Manipur after a May 4 video surfaced on Wednesday showing two women from one of the warring communities being paraded naked by a few men from the other side, officials said here on Wednesday. The video was doing the rounds on the eve of a planned protest march announced by the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) on Thursday to highlight their plight.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the Bombay high court ruling in actress Rhea Chakraborty’s case — that giving money to a person for procuring drugs would not mean encouraging illicit trafficking — would not be considered as a precedent while allowing the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)’s plea not to challenge the bail granted to her.
The 26-member opposition bloc gathered in Bengaluru to give shape to the anti-BJP coalition named itself INDIA – standing for Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance – to set the stage for a Lok Sabha battle next year that couldbe as much about acronyms as acrimony.
Security forces gunned down four “foreign” terrorists in a fierce shootout in J&K’s Poonch district on Tuesday, while four men linked to Pakistan-backed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were taken into custody in the Beerwah area of Budgam district in central Kashmir.
Suspected terrorists shot at and wounded two migrant workers in south Kashmir's Anantnag district late Tuesday. Both are in hospital and stable, police said. Kashmir Zone Police tweeted that the area where the duo was attacked had been cordoned off for a search of the assailants.
The Supreme Court on Monday frowned upon advocates of the Delhi high court abstaining from work to protest the transfer of Justice Gaurang Kanth to the Calcutta HC, and asked the Bar Council of India (BCI) to furnish details of strikes called by lawyers’ bodies in the last one year across the country and action taken against their office-bearers.
Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday told the 2022 batch trainees of Indian Foreign Service (IFS) that as foot soldiers, they will be brand ambassadors of the country.
Fortifying further its plans for the 2024 contest, BJP-led NDA roped in a new constituent on Sunday as part of its OBC outreach in UP — estranged Samajwadi Party ally Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) — while eyeing a deal with three strong potential allies down south.
A day after marking its opposition to the Delhi ordinance, Congress on Sunday made it clear that the party would oppose it in Parliament, prompting AAP to welcome the announcement as “a positive development” and declare that it would take part in the two-day opposition meet, to be held in Bengaluru from Monday to chalk out joint strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
India and France on Friday announced a raft of "ground-breaking" defence cooperation projects, including the joint development of jet and helicopter engines and the construction of three Scorpene submarines for the Indian Navy, following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Continuous water discharge from the Hathnikund barrage in Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana on Thursday led to the worst flooding in the capital in 45 years. The water began flowing into some of Delhi’s main arteries like Ring Road and GT Karnal Road and inundated the residential area of Civil Lines and transport hub ISBT at Kashmere Gate besides the low-lying areas near Kalindi Kunj.
Bengal’s violence-marred rural vote gave Trinamool Congress a massive, morale-boosting mandate on Wednesday, going into next year’s big Lok Sabha battle — all 20 zilla parishads, 317 of the 341 panchayat samitis, and 2,644 of the 3,317 gram panchayats at stake.Second-placed BJP’s tally of six panchayat samitis and 220 gram panchayats accentuated TMC’s dominance in the three-tier elections, which appeared a foregone conclusion as results and trends emerged on the first day of counting.
Bahanaga station master S B Mohanty was among seven railway employees suspended by the South Eastern Railway (SER) on Wednesday in connection with the June 2 triple-train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district that left 294 people dead.
Uttarakhand was swamped Tuesday by the twin storms of monsoon and western disturbance that caused heavy rain and widespread destruction as falling boulders and landslides killed eight people, including three Gangotri pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh, in the state.
Isro, which is attempting to launch Chandrayaan-3 at 2.35pm Friday onboard LVM3, has spent nearly four years — after Chandrayaan-2’s failure to soft-land — anticipating failure scenarios and ensuring they’re addressed. Among several changes introduced will be the first orbit Chandrayaan-3 gets injected into Friday, while most changes are in the last phase of the mission.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Union government to file an affidavit in two weeks to justify the ‘services ordinance’ it promulgated on May 19 to wrest control of bureaucracy in the national capital, but refused the Arvind Kejriwal government’s plea to stay its operation.
The combined might of the monsoon and a western disturbance continued to barrel down on northern India, leading to more deaths and causing extensive landslides and flooding in the mountains and the plains, with the swollen and swift-flowing Beas, Satluj and other rivers and streams taking down houses and parked cars, and submerging cities, villages and swathes of cropland.
In a first, more than one lakh pilgrims have visited the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the first 10 days of the annual Yatra, which began on July 1, even as the pilgrimage remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday because of inclement weather conditions.
Bilaspur constituency in Chhattisgarh will witness a battle between Tokhan Sahu (BJP) and Devender Singh Yadav (Congress). The Lok Sabha ele...
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