In a historic event, around 25,000 devotees from tribal communities across the country will converge at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj to take a holy dip at the Sangam and pledge to safeguard their religion, culture, and traditions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction programme 'Pariksha Pe Charcha' will this year be held in new format and style with more personalities being roped in to address students who are set to sit for the year's Board examinations.
The CM noted that information technology is no longer just a sector, but it has become a fundamental necessity across all industries. He pointed out that from healthcare to agriculture, education, and manufacturing, IT plays a crucial role in every field.
Mahant Ravindra Puri, President of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad and the driving force behind the success of the Mahaukumbh, had a long telephonic conversation with “The Statesman” correspondent Manoj Bhadra on different aspects of the Mahakumbh through the perspectives of the saints and sadhus of the 13 Akharas.
The Uttarakhand government is set to upgrade the load-carrying capacity of nearly 350 Class B bridges in areas along the Indo-China border. According to state government officials, the initiative aims primarily to facilitate the movement of defence equipment and heavy vehicles to border regions in times of need.
Vehicular traffic between Hyderabad and Vijayawada came to a halt on Friday due to flooding of the highway.
The Supreme Court on Friday could not take up for hearing pleas related to the ethnic clashes in Manipur, including the suo moto case where the Central and state governments were directed to take immediate steps on the viral video of two young tribal women being paraded naked.
After facing a disaster in the hills of Darjeeling and Kalimpong in the recently concluded panchayat polls in West Bengal, the BJP seems to be heading for yet another complication with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) supremo Bimal Gurung hinting at distancing his party with the saffron camp unless the latter announces its definite standpoint on the issue of separate 'Gorkhaland' state.
Laying thrust on Project Tiger, which completed its 50 years recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that it is the result of the pioneering conservation initiative that 70 per cent of the world's tigers are found in India.
Vinod Sharma, a leader of the Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has taken a tough decision by resigning from his…
