A trust will be formed within a week for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya along with the offer of land for a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s temple town as mandated by the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue, officials said on Tuesday. The MHA has prepared the framework for the trust for the construction of the Ram temple and identified the land to be offered to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board. The entire proposal will be put before the Union cabinet for its approval. The announcement of the trust’s constitution as well as…
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BJP today hit out at Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi saying they hindered the works of the central government in the national capital. Briefing reporters in New Delhi, senior party leader and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, central government has done more for the people of Delhi than the AAP government. He accused the Delhi government of halting the 4th phase of Metro’s expansion and Dwarka Expressway works. He also said that the state government has done nothing about Delhi’s major problems like traffic congestion. Mr Javadekar said, the tall claims of the AAP government about bringing a complete turnaround…
US President Donald Trump has unveiled his Middle East peace plan that backs Israel’s continued control of territories and East Jerusalem that are in dispute with Palestinians and scales back hopes of a full-fledged nation for them. Even before the plan crafted under the guidance of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner over three years was unveiled on Tuesday, Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had rejected it despite the US President’s lure of a $50 billion for the Palestine state. After it was announced Abbas said: “Jerusalem is not for sale. Our rights are not for sale.” The plan was unveiled at…
With three days remaining in the scheduled execution of death penalties in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed convict Mukesh Singh’s plea seeking judicial review of the rejection of his mercy petition by the President. With this decision by the top court, Mukesh has exhausted the last legal remedy available to him against the death sentence. A bench comprising Justices R. Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A.S. Bopanna said that all the relevant documents connected with the case were placed before the President and then a decision was taken on his mercy petition. The court observed…
Passenger carrier IndiGo on Tuesday said that it has barred stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for six months for portraying “unacceptable behaviour” onboard one of its flights. It has been alleged that Kamra, while travelling on a Mumbai-Lucknow IndiGo flight, provoked a TV news anchor by asking questions over news presentation style. Following IndiGo’s announcement, Air India also barred Karma from flying on any of its flights until further notice. “In light of the recent incident onboard 6E 5317 from Mumbai to Lucknow, we wish to inform that we are suspending Mr. Kunal Kamra from flying with IndiGo for a period…
Investigators have recovered all of the nine bodies from the site of the helicopter crash which killed retired NBA star Kobe Bryant and his teenage daughter, authorities said. Three bodies were recovered Sunday, the day of the accident, from the helicopter wreckage located in the 4200 block of Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas, California, and another six were located the next day, Xinhua news agency quoted the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner as saying on Tuesday. Investigators have already identified three men and one woman who were on the aircraft. They are John Altobelli, Kobe Bryant, Sarah Chester…
Taking on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), cricketer-turned-BJP-MP Gautam Gambhir on Tuesday in a tweet raised questions over its efforts for improving education in Delhi. He added snapshots of two RTI replies that claimed only one school was opened but over a hundred liquor licences were approved in the last five years in Delhi. “So “Mr. Education” is saying that this school became a wreck in 3 months? For 5 yrs it was a model school & right before elections it was shut down!,” Gambhir tweeted targeting Manish Sisodia, the Delhi Minister of Education. “This is the same man who…
The stage is all set for the 11th edition of the biennial mega defence exhibition, DefExpo 2020, slated be held in Lucknow from February 5-9. The theme this year is ‘India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub’. The aim of the event is to bring leading technologies in the defence sector under one roof and provide countless opportunities for the government, private manufactures and start-ups. According to a government spokesman, the event will cover the entire spectrum of the country’s aerospace, defence and security interests. A record number of 989 exhibitors, including 165 foreign companies, have registered for the Expo so…
Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth visited Karnataka’s Bandipur Tiger Reserve to shoot an episode for Discovery channel’s popular programme ‘Man vs Wild’ with host Bear Grylls, an official said on Tuesday. “We gave permission for 6-8 hours to Discovery Channel to shoot in Bandipur Tiger Reserve,” T. Balachandra, the reserve’s director and conservator of forests, told IANS. He said the one-day shoot began at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and ended by 4 p.m. “They paid as per the norms. Per day they have to pay documentary fee, vehicle fee and others. For four days, they paid Rs 10 lakh,” Balachandra said. Balachandra…
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren expanded his cabinet on Tuesday and inducted seven more Ministers, taking the strength of the Ministry to 10. It was the first cabinet expansion of Hemant Soren government since he came to power last month. The cabinet expansion took place in Raj Bhavan on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Five MLAs from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and two from the Congress took oath as the cabinet Ministers. The two Congress MLAs who took oath on Tuesday include Banna Gupta and Sri Badal. The five JMM Legislators to who took oath are: Champai Soren, Haji Hussain…