Shankaracharya and head of the renowned Badarinath- based Jyotish Peeth (seat) Avimukteshwaranand, known for his controversial statements, on Thursday said Uttarakashi and other mosque controversies must be resolved amicably through talks and not fighting against each other.
The BJP and Congress traded charges over a scuffle between lawmakers of the two parties on the Parliament premises earlier on Thursday.
The Himachal Pradesh State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has strongly condemned the state government's decision to recruit guest lecturers in government schools and colleges.
With the dumping of medical and other solid wastes into Tamil Nadu villages along the inter-state border creating a political furor, the Southern Bench of the NGT on Thursday directed the Kerala government to dispose them off within three days.
Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday lashed out against Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar.
In a significant step towards fostering cultural unity and strengthening national integration, the culture departments of Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat' initiative.
Terming the restrictions as “impractical”, the Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the Kerala High Court's order on the use of elephants and observing distances between them, the public, flambeau, and the percussion display during festival parades, including the ‘Thrissur Pooram”.
The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party on Thursday condemned the statement of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Dr B R Ambedkar, and demanded an unconditional apology for his "anti-Dalit" remarks.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis made his first speech on Thursday, the fourth day of the six-day winter session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, in Nagpur.
Chhattisgarh Governor and Chancellor of the universities, Ramen Deka, took a decisive step to elevate the standards of higher education in the state by urging private universities to focus on innovation, research, and startup ecosystems, while ensuring strict adherence to University Grants Commission (UGC) norms.
