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Allahabad, Mar 4: Even before midnight, devotees from different walks of life and parts of the country had begun to pour into the Sangam city to take holy dip on Mahashivratri, the great night of Shiva and the last bathing day during the one-and-a-half-month Kumbh Mela. According to Hindu mythology, Mahashivratri symbolises the last holy bath of Kalpvasis — who spend the month of Magh as Kalpvas

Jammu, Mar 4: Three prominent leaders of the recently banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) were arrested and nearly a dozen assets sealed during raids across six districts of Jammu province, police said on Sunday. The day-long raids on the offices and houses of JeI leaders and activists were conducted in Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Poonch, Rajouri and Jammu districts Saturday, during which a large quantity of

Patna, Mar 3: Hitting out at opposition parties for questioning the recent air strike in Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the armed forces were busy quelling terror, but the Congress and its allies are not convinced with their act of bravery. The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy

Mar 3: The Jammu and Kashmir administration Saturday sanctioned additional 400 individual bunkers for the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri which witnessed intense shelling from Pakistani troops over the past five days. “In view of the heightened cross-border shelling, the government has sanctioned additional 200 individual bunkers each for Poonch and Rajouri districts,” an official spokesman

Kolkata, Mar 3: Hitting out at BJP president Amit Shah for his criticism of opposition parties which questioned airstrikes in Pakistan, the TMC on Sunday said the saffron party leader should refrain from "lecturing others" on patriotism as he was a "proponent of divisive and hatred politics". The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should stop taking credit for the airstrike as the armed forces belong to

New Delhi, Mar 3: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday accused BJP ministers of "leaking exaggerated numbers" to the media about the casualties in the air strike in Pakistan. The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC also claimed that no statistics given by the central government can be taken "seriously". Security forces have not officially attributed any number to those eliminated in the strike, Trinamool

New Delhi, Mar 2: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday met Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and conveyed to him that the entire nation is proud of his courage and determination, officials said. During the meeting at a medical facility of the Indian Air Force, Varthaman is understood to have explained to Sitharaman details about his nearly 60-hour stay in Pakistan. Varthaman arrived

Patna, Mar 2: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that if his party was voted to power during the 2019 parliamentary elections, he would give a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) to every Indian. This proposal, he assured, would be implemented as soon as the Congress-led Government assumes office in May 2019. “Unlike Narendra Modi, I never make false promises. I have been a Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Mar 2: Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was brought to Delhi after Pakistan released him through the Attari-Wagah border late Friday night, underwent a series of medical tests as part of a "cooling down" process, officials said. Early Saturday morning, Varthaman met his immediate family members as well as several top officials of the Indian Air Force, they said. Varthaman

Thiruvanathapuram, Mar 2: In the wake of protests from the BJP, CPI (M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said on Friday that he had made no anti-national remarks but only criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi after India's aerial attack on terror camps in Pakistan. "What I said in my speech was I criticised Modi and I will continue to do so. If that's a crime, I am ready to go to jail," Balakrishnan