Enforcement Directorate has gained custody of the three prime accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case. In July of this year, the ED had filed a money laundering case in connection with the racket. A special court in Thiruvananthapuram sent Sarith PS, Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair to ED custody, officials said. Earlier, all three were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after the case was transferred to it from Customs by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) citing national security implications. Accused in Kerala gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh in custody (Photo Credits: PTI) Swapna Suresh, a former…
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In order to strengthen the grassroots democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, the administration has decided to spend Rs 1,700 crore to empower the newly constituted panchayats and give them control of 21 departments to be headed by Panchs and Sarpanchs. On the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, the Union Territory (UT) administration shared the plan with IANS under which it says the administration has devolved Rs 1,000 crore while another Rs 700 crore is in the pipeline. The plans, a government data reveals, were prepared soon after Panchayat elections for nearly 4,500 Panchayat Halqas– a cluster of…
92-year-old K Parasaran who successfully led the legal fight of Hindus to construct the Ram Mandir was today pictured watching the Bhoomi Pujan from his home. https://twitter.com/sgurumurthy/status/1290925082932424704 Parasaran – a veteran lawyer and a legend at the bar served as the lead counsel for the Hindu side and made various important arguments along the duration of the hearing. The Illustrious Career Of K Parasaran K Parasaran is a senior Supreme Court advocate who in a legal career spanning over six decades, served as the Attorney General of India from 1983 to 1989. He had earlier served as the Advocate-General of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a 40-kg silver brick for a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya after participating in a “Bhoomi Pujan” or a groundbreaking ceremony attended mostly by spiritual leaders. “It is an emotional moment for India. A long wait ends today. A grand temple will now be built for Lord Ram who had been living under a tent for many years,” the PM said, addressing the gathering to chants of “Jai Shri Ram”. It was his first visit to the riverside town in 29 years; in 1992 he had vowed to return only when a Ram temple…
Ahead of the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered prayers at the Hanumangarhi temple. Accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the prime minister arrived at the temple dressed in traditional dhoti-kurta. Modi was gifted a headgear by the chief priest of the temple. After spending some time at the temple, he headed to ‘Shree Ram Janmabhoomi’ where he will take part in pooja and darshan of ‘Bhagwan Shree Ramlala Virajman’. He will subsequently perform ‘bhoomi poojan’ there. On the significance of visiting Hanuman temple first, Hanuman Garhi Mahant…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will return to Ayodhya after 29 years today for the groundbreaking ceremony for a Ram temple at the site that was disputed for decades until the Supreme Court handed over ownership to Hindus last year. PM Modi will lay a 40 kg silver brick to mark the symbolic start of a grand temple at what many believe is the birthplace of Lord Ram. Images released on Monday of the temple design showed a grand three-storey stone structure with multiple turrets, pillars and domes. The temple will be 161 feet tall. Construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya…
BJP veteran LK Advani — who put the Ayodhya Ram Temple front and centre of the issues championed by the party — spoke up on the eve of the ground-breaking ceremony of the temple, saying it was “a historical and emotional day not only for me but for all Indians”. “Destiny made me perform a pivotal duty in the form of Ram Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya in 1990 which helped galvanise aspirations, energies and passions of its countless participants,” said Mr Advani, who became the face of the temple movement, with his rath yatras dominating politics in…
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for releasing a replacement map which shows a neighborhood of the state as Pakistan’s territory. The changes within the map were “preposterous”, he said. “This so called “political map” of Pakistan released by Prime Minister Imran Khan today may be a glaring example of how disconnected Pakistan PM is with ground realities. “Pakistan will never achieve its wicked design of undermining the unity and integrity of India,” Rupani tweeted. “This action of Pakistan is both preposterous and obnoxious. Gujarat condemns this absurd act of Pakistan…
Temples across the US have announced special events to celebrate the inspiration laying ceremony of the historic Ram Temple in Ayodhya, with a tableau truck displaying digital images of the Ram Temple going around the US Capitol Hill on Tuesday, according to Hindu community leaders. The groundbreaking for the event of the temple would happen on August 5 within the holy town of Ayodhya and Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be attending the event. Temples across the US will perform special poojas and prayers, while an outsized number of Indian-Americans have said that they could lit diya to celebrate the…
https://twitter.com/KFartom/status/1290744172652253195?s=20 Two enormous explosions devastated Beirut’s port on Tuesday, leaving at least 73 people dead and thousands injured, shaking distant buildings and spreading panic and chaos across the Lebanese capital. The second blast sent an enormous orange fireball into the sky, flattened the harbourside and drove a tornado-like shockwave through the city, shattering windows kilometres (miles) away. Bloodied and dazed wounded stumbled among the debris, glass shards and burning buildings in central Beirut as the health ministry reported 73 dead and 3,700 injured and the minister bemoaned “a disaster in every sense of the word”. A soldier at the port,…