The Centre’s circular lifting the ban on government employees from participating in RSS activities has revived the controversy over whether the latter is a political or cultural organisation. This is not the first time the issue is being discussed. What is lacking is intellectual honesty in understanding the problem. The RSS’s reach is visible: More than three dozen affiliates work on almost every aspect of life, including programmes for tribals, Dalits and marginalised sections. However, the RSS is not an NGO. Its actions are more than philanthropic and not confined…
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Aries Horoscope Today, 29-July-2024: Discover what stars say about your career, finance and love | Horoscope Today
Aries Horoscope Prediction Today, 29-July-2024: Be careful, you may break a few hearts today! Otherwise, your love life is steady, and you may now feel ready to commit to your beloved. If married, your relationship takes on a deeper hue and a strong binding attachment. Astrology Predictions: Aries Love Horoscope Today Thrill, chill and excite your lover this beautiful evening. After all, “love and be loved”- that will be your motto. You will be at your romantic best by the blessings of Ganesha. ARIES (March 21 – April 20) Astrology…
Srinivasan exits India Cements, sells 32.72% stake to UltraTech Cement for Rs 3,954 crore | Business News
Consolidating its number one position in the cement sector, UltraTech Cement Ltd, owned by the Aditya Birla group, has acquired 32.72 per cent stake of N Srinivasan and associates in India Cements for Rs 3,954 crore. With this sell-out, Srinivasan will exit from the company set up in 1946. As the Birlas will shell out Rs 390 per share for the acquisition, it will trigger a mandatory open offer for another 20 per cent stake in the company from the public at Rs 390 per share. The open offer, which…
Delhi UPSC coaching centre deaths: Two graduates, one PhD student, phone calls to 3 states | Delhi News
A BIOLOGY graduate from UP who moved to her uncle’s home in Delhi to chase her dreams; a JNU research student from Kerala who had quietly signed up for civil services coaching; an IAS aspirant who missed her parents in Telangana so much that she called them every day. On Saturday evening, these three lives, and their stories, crossed paths in the basement of the popular Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar — for the last time. A day later, long after the heavy rains and water…
Building development legacy key to Viksit Bharat: PM to BJP CMs | India News
Addressing chief ministers from BJP-ruled states on the second day of their two-day meeting — ‘Mukhyamantri Parishad’ — Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India would certainly become a developed nation if the Centre and the state governments work in unison for it. He said the “development of heritage as well as building a legacy of development were important for viksit Bharat”. All 13 chief ministers and all 15 deputy CMs of BJP-ruled states took part in the meeting, which was also attended by party president J P Nadda,…
TMC leader ‘thrashes’ woman, arrested and released soon | Kolkata News
After a video of a man beating a woman went viral, police in Purba Bardhaman district arrested a local TMC leader from Kalna on Saturday evening. The local TMC leader, Gopal Tiwari, seen in the purported video was released on bail on Sunday. Sources said that police did not oppose the bail plea in the court. According to police, the incident took place over a land dispute. “On Friday, Gopal and his gang members thrashed my mother-in-law. On Saturday, they came again and beat me and other family members in…
Thousands battle Western wildfires as smoke puts millions under air quality alerts | World News
Wildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality alerts Sunday as thousands of firefighters battled the flames, including the largest wildfire in California this year. The so-called Park Fire had scorched more than 550 square miles (1,430 square kilometers) of land in inland Northern California as of Sunday morning, darkening the sky with smoke and haze and contributing to poor air quality in a large swath of the Northwestern US and western Canada. Although the sprawling blaze was only 12% contained as of…
SP’s Brahmin face Mata Prasad Pandey, 81, to replace Akhilesh as LoP in UP Assembly | Lucknow News
In a surprise move, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday appointed the party’s veteran Brahmin face and seven-time MLA Mata Prasad Pandey, 81, as the Leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Also, Akhilesh appointed Kanth MLA and minority community leader Kamal Akhtar as the party’s chief whip and RK Verma, a Kurmi face from Pratapgarh district, as the party’s deputy whip in the Assembly. The development came a day before the start of the monsoon session of the state Assembly. The LoP’s post had fallen vacant since…
Eleven newly elected MLCs takes oath | Mumbai News
Eleven newly elected legislators took oath as members of the Maharashtra legislative council at the Vidhan Bhavan’s Central hall on Sunday. The ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP won all the nine seats it contested in polls to 11 seats of the state legislative council held on July 12. The MLCs who took oath on Sunday are BJP’s Pankaja Munde, Parinay Fuke, Yogesh Tilekar, Amit Gorkhe and Sadabhau Khot, NCP’s Rajesh Vitekar and party general secretary Shivajirao Garje, Shiv Sena’s Bhawana Gawali and Krupal Tumane, Congress’s…
Haryana: Kanwariya killed, 13 injured after truck comes in contact with power wire | Delhi News
A kanwariya was killed and 13 more suffered burn injuries after their canter-truck came in contact with a overhead electricity wire here in Haryana on Sunday, police said. The victims — all kanwariyas (Shiva devotees) — were going to Haridwar in Uttarakhand as part of the kawar yatra to collect water from the Ganga river, they said. The incident happened in the Nawada area and they were all admitted to a hospital with burn injuries. Nitin, 20, a resident of Tigaon, was referred to another hospital where doctors declared him…