Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
The new Ram Lalla idol was consecrated at the Ayodhya temple on Monday, an event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and watched by lakhs of people on television at their homes and in temples across the country. At the end of the ceremony, Modi prostrated himself before the idol and did what is known as the 'dandavat pranam'.
During a law and order crisis, everyone can go to the birthplace of Vaishnav saint Srimanta Sankardeva, only ''Rahul Gandhi cannot go'', the Congress leader said in Assam's Nagaon on Monday. Gandhi was stopped at Haibargaon en route to the sattra (Sankardeva's birthplace) where he along with senior Congress leaders and supporters staged a dharna while party MP Gaurav Gogoi and Batadrava MLA Sibamoni Bora proceeded to the birthplace to resolve the issue.
All 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case have surrendered at the Godhra sub jail in Gujarat's Panchmahal district in keeping with the deadline set by the Supreme Court. The top court on January 8 annulled the remission granted by the Gujarat government to the 11 convicts in the high-profile case while slamming the state for being 'complicit' with an accused and abusing its discretion.
Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students' wing of RSS, worshipped Lord Ram on Jadavpur University campus here on Monday, coinciding with the consecration ceremony of Ram temple in Ayodhya. At the same time, Students Federation of India (SFI), one of the majority student unions in the university, staged a protest rally inside the campus and held a seminar where speakers denounced 'any attempt to change history and divide society by the fascist regime.'
Sony Group Corp said it is calling off a USD 10 billion merger of its India unit with Zee Entertainment, following a stalemate over who will lead the merged entity. In a stock exchange filing on the issue, Zee on its part denied all claims made by Sony and said it is exploring legal remedies.
Supreme Court asked the authorities in Tamil Nadu to act in accordance with the law and not based on any oral instructions on 'banning' special prayers and live telecast of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in all temples across the state. The bench took on record the statement of senior advocate Amit Anand Tiwari for Tamil Nadu that there are no restrictions on 'puja archana’ in temples or live telecast of consecration ceremony at Ayodhya.
The committee on 'one nation, one election' headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind has received nearly 21,000 suggestions from the public out of which 81 per cent "affirmed" the idea of simultaneous polls, an official statement said. "Till date, suggestions have been received from 17 political parties," it said.
India's batting mainstay Virat Kohli has pulled out of the first two Tests against England due to personal reasons, the BCCI said. The five-match series begins in Hyderabad on January 25.
Donald Trump set aside months of criticism and mockery of Ron DeSantis night, celebrating his onetime Republican rival as his newest supporter after the Florida governor ended his presidential campaign and endorsed the former president. Earlier in the day, DeSantis said via video that he would be ending his campaign two days before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation GOP primary.
At least two people were killed and over 40 others went missing after a landslide struck southwest China's mountainous Yunnan province. Over 500 residents were evacuated from the landslide-hit areas as the provincial commission for disaster reduction activated a Level-III emergency response for disaster relief, state-run CCTV reported.
