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DMK has been trying to secularise the Pongal festival every year. It rechristened it as “Samathuva (equality all religion) Pongal” and started calling the first day of the month (Thai) in the solar calendar as New Year. It seems as if the DMK is indeed implementing the agenda of missionaries …

“Save us Sanatanis from the clutches of jihadists!”—this is the desperate appeal made to the Government of India by Bangladeshi refugee Bappaditya Basu. Having somehow fled to India on a medical visa, Bappaditya Basu—one of the prominent faces of the Shahbag movement and a leader of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity …

JAMMU: A Delhi court on January 14 convicted Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi and two of her associates in a terror case lodged under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The UAPA is a law specifically aimed at dealing with cases of terrorism, separatism and secessionism. Aasiya Andrabi, chief of …

RAIPUR: A number of people have reverted to their original faith in separate developments reported from Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. According to details, as many as six people have reverted to Sanatan fold in a small Ghar Wapsi ceremony organised in Sarandi village of Antagarh block of the district. The …

Thiruvananthapuram: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has concluded that the ceremonial ‘dwaja sthambham’ (flagpole) at Sabarimala was deliberately replaced using gold and precious idols with the intention of facilitating theft and eventual destruction. With this finding, serious questions have arisen regarding the Devaswom Governing Body that was in office when …

Bellari:  A  chilling murder case has come to light from Ballari district, where a 32-year-old woman, a mother of three who was living separately from her husband, was brutally killed by her lover, Mohammed Khwaja, whom she had secretly married just four months ago. The crime, driven by suspicion and …

Murshidabad: On January 10, 47-year-old Booth Level Officer (BLO) Hamimul Islam, who was also the headmaster of a state-funded boys’ secondary school in Paikmarichar, Murshidabad, committed suicide. His body was found at the school premises. On January 12, authorities took All India Trinamool Congress (AITC/TMC) leader Bullet Khan into custody. …

Thiruvananthapuram: Uttarkashi Juna Akhada Mutt Chief Swami Anandavanam Bharathi has sharply criticised the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala for denying permission to hold the Maha Magha Mahotsavam, widely described as Kerala’s Kumbh Mela, at Thirunavaya Manappuram. Addressing a press conference, Swami Anandavanam Bharathi said the state government must …

BHUBANESWAR: Police in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have made a significant breakthrough in the theft at the famous Maa Charchika Temple with the arrest of the prime suspect, Sheikh Nabab. After an intensive investigation lasting nearly one and a half months, the police not only apprehended the accused but also recovered …

A chilling incident has come to light in Thoraikhana village, Dinhata, West Bengal, where a man has been arrested for murder with alleged cannibalistic intent. Firdaus Alam, the accused, was taken into custody by local police following the killing of an elderly destitute man who had been living near a …