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New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat during an event marking the official launch of songs of the film Shatak, chronicling the 100-year journey of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) NEW DELHI: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday likened the organisation’s growth to that of a tree rising from a seed,…

Disasters don’t just cause infrastructure losses, cripple economies, or claim lives. They shake something far deeper, that is, the very fabric of human existence.Each disaster leaves scars that statistics cannot fully capture silent grief, disrupted childhoods, fractured communities and lives permanently divided into “before” and “after”. Homes swallowed by raging floods erase decades of memory….

PM Modi during an address at Somnath Swabhiman Parv NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked the history of Somnath Temple and how ancestors had “staked their lives for the temple 1,000 years ago”, saying “flag hoisting at Somnath Mahadev Mandir shows the power of India and its capabilities to the entire world”.“From…

NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday took a jibe at Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar amid a growing push to honour him with the country’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.RJD MP Sudhakar Singh said that despite being ill, Nitish Kumar has served as Bihar’s chief minister for 20 years, which makes him…

NEW DELHI: West Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday hit out at chief minister Mamata Banerjee, strongly rejecting her allegations about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.In a letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, Adhikari highlighted that Mamata Banerjee’s letter to the EC “appears to be a desperate…

NEW DELHI: Elon Musk-owned X admitted its mistake and stated it would comply with Indian law as it blocked 3,500 pieces of content and deleted over 600 accounts linked to obscene imageries generated using the platform’s AI tool, Grok.“The social media platform ‘X’ has admitted its mistake and stated that it will comply with Indian…

LONDON: UK shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel has called on the British government to intervene in the “increase in violence” in Bangladesh that has involved murders of Hindus and use its influence to bring about stability in the country. The British Indian Opposition Conservative MP posted her letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on social…

DHAKA: A total of 32 prominent citizens and rights activists on Saturday condemned the planned killings, especially the killing of minorities, serial violence and the burning of houses in the country, stressing that the Prof Yunus-led interim govt is failing to prosecute the perpetrators of violence against the minorities. They demanded that those responsible for…

Remains of ancient settlement off the Dwarka coast in the Arabian Sea AHMEDABAD: Dwarka, the ancient Gujarat coastal town closely associated with the legend of Lord Krishna and home to the revered Dwarkadhish Temple, is set to witness renewed rounds of archaeological excavations, both on land and underwater, senior officials of Archaeological Survey of India…

RAIPUR: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men, including a driver attached to the state police’s Dial-112 emergency response system, in Korba district of central Chhattisgarh. The driver and another accused have been arrested, police said Saturday, adding teams were searching for the remaining suspects. The alleged assault occurred late Jan 8 in…