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IMPHAL: Suspected Chin Kuki Militants attacked Meitei villagers with bombs on the morning of January 5 at Saiton village in Bishnupur District, around 55 kilometres away from the capital city Imphal. More than two villagers, including women, were injured in the attack. Enraged villagers protested in front of the Security …

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on January 5, denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in a case pertaining to an alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 north-east Delhi riots. However, the SC granted bail to Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd. Saleem Khan and Shadab Ahmad. …

BHOPAL: Empowering women, providing them opportunities, and ensuring their ideological orientation is the need of the hour. This process has already begun, and women are progressing in every sphere of society, but it needs to be strengthened further, said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat while addressing the Matri …

BHOPAL: On the occasion of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s centenary year, a Samajik Sadbhav Baithak was organised at the Kushabhau Thakre Auditorium, where Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat stated that Social harmony is not a new concept; it has always been the inherent nature of Indian society, said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh …

Leh: The NHRC has issued a notice to the Leh civil administration and its police authorities over charges that a minor Ladakhi girl belonging to a tribal Buddhist community who had gone missing from her home late December, was subsequently “found in Srinagar with a Muslim boy”, according to the …

NEW DELHI: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) spokesperson Vinod Bansal on January 4, 2025, criticised the Kolkata Knight Riders for hiring Mustafizur Rahman for Rs 9 crore. The inclusion of the Bangladesh player had sparked a political backlash in India, particularly amid the recent targeting of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, and …

In the long and often misunderstood history of Sikh–Hindu relations in the post-Independence Bharat, few figures embody civilisational unity as organically as Sardar Chiranjeev Singh, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s first Sikh pracharak. His life stands as a living rebuttal to the artificial binaries imposed by colonial historiography, separatist propaganda and …

JAMMU: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on January 2 unveiled the Panchang Calendar–2026 and the official diary of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) at Lok Bhavan in Jammu. The 2026 Panchang, curated under the expert guidance of eminent scholars and priests, serves as a comprehensive spiritual guide for …

BHUBANESWAR: The proposed queue-based Dhadi  Darshan system at the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri has been temporarily put on hold after minor technical flaws were detected during its trial phase, Odisha Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan informed on January 2. The new darshan arrangement, aimed at streamlining the movement of devotees …

GUWAHATI: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here sentenced key accused Md. Kamruz Zaman to life imprisonment in a major Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terror conspiracy case in Assam. The verdict marks a significant blow to the Pakistan-backed terror group’s operations in the Northeast. The Islamist terrorist Md. Kamruj Zaman, alias Dr …