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Police fired teargas shells after stones were pelted on a 'shobha yatra' (procession) of Lord Ram in Gujarat's Mehsana district on Sunday, an official said.The incident took place in Kheralu town on the eve of the idol consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh and three teargas...
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India will send back 276 Myanmarese soldiers who fled to Mizoram last week following gunfights with an ethnic insurgent group, an official said on Sunday.With this repatriation, which will continue for two days -- Monday and Tuesday, more than 600 Myanmarese soldiers who fled to Mizoram will be...
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A multi-layer security cover is in place in Ayodhya for the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple, with 10,000 CCTV cameras and drones equipped with artificial intelligence keeping an eye on the movement of people and police personnel in plain clothes deployed at the venue.From Dharam Path and...
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Engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Sunday said that it has designed and built the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.The much-awaited Ram temple consecration will be held on Monday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the rituals, following which the...
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A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Araria district of Bihar for calling up the police and threatening to 'blow up' the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22, a senior official said on Sunday.Intekhab Alam, the caller, was arrested from his home at Balua Kaliyaganj in Palasi police station area...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said he plans to take his cabinet as well as MLAs and Lok Sabha MPs from the state for 'darshan' to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya later and, hence, was not attending the idol consecration ceremony on January 22.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines...
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India has logged 290 fresh cases of Covid, while the number of active cases of the infection has been recorded at 2,059, the health ministry said on Sunday.Six deaths-- four from Kerala and one each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh -- have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday announced a public holiday on January 22 in view of the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.Sukhu visited the Ram temple in Shimla during the day and also appealed to the people of the state to light earthen...
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Lord Ram is an integral part of India's culture and its identity, says Ramayan star Arun Govil, who is looking forward to attending the historic consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Monday.The actor, who became a household name after essaying the role of Lord Ram in Ramanand...
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The old idol of Ram Lalla, kept in a makeshift shrine, will be placed in front of the new idol which will be consecrated at the temple here on January 22, said Govind Dev Giri, the treasurer of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.He also said that more than Rs 1,100 crore has so far been...
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The Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation has provided a glimpse of the newly built Ram Temple in Ayodhya from space.Taken from the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite hovering over space, the image shared by ISRO on Sunday shows the grand new temple...
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The operations of all casinos in Goa will remain shut for eight hours from 8 am on Monday as a mark of respect for the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, an official from a casino management company said on Sunday. There are six off shore casinos and several on shore casinos...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has been sent an invitation by speed post for the Ram temple consecration ceremony to be held in Ayodhya on Monday.Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut hit out at the government over the manner in which the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that Assam's Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has been threatening people against joining the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra and also refusing permissions for programmes along the route.But people are not afraid of the BJP, Gandhi claimed addressing a...
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has clarified that all clinical services will remain open on January 22, 2024 to provide seamless and uninterrupted patient care.
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Actor Rashmika Mandanna has expressed gratitude towards Delhi Police after it arrested a B-Tech graduate from Andhra Pradesh in connection with a deepfake video of the Animal star that was widely circulated on social media. The video went viral on social media in November which showed a...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during Nyay Yatra, in Jorhat, Assam/ANI Photo
The government will deploy commandos on sensitive routes of minority-dominated areas where Rahul Gandhi's Nyay Yatra will proceed on Sunday, the day the consecration of Ram temple in Ayodhya is to be held, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. More details soon. -- PTI
11:15
In the last legs of his spiritual journey leading up to the pran pratishtha of Shri Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid a visit to the Arichal Munai in Tamil Nadu's Dhanushkodi. Arichal Munai is believed to be the point from which the Ram Setu was...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', in Nagaland/ANI Photo
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should avoid visiting the birthplace of Srimanta Sankardeva at Batadrava on January 22, as there can be no competition between Lord Ram and the medieval age Vaishnav saint revered as an icon in the...
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Two criminals were injured during an encounter with police in Uttar Pradesh's Noida, police said on Sunday. According to officials, the two miscreants, identified as Anuj and Nitin, were injured during an encounter around 5:00 a.m. at Noida Sector 49. The accused, Anuj and...
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Celebrated soul and jazz vocalist Marlena Shaw, known for her hits California Soul and Woman of the Ghetto, passed away at the age of 81. Shaw's daughter, Marla Bradshaw, shared the news Friday in a video posted on Facebook. A cause of death was not revealed, Variety, a US-based...
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Laxmi Goud, 43 along with her son and daughter has created Ram Mandir at Juhu beach, Mumbai.
As the euphoria and public expectations around the grand Ram Temple opening on Monday reached the proverbial crescendo, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust announced on Sunday that the pran pratishtha ceremony will be marked by a dazzling musical event titled mangal...
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Several US personnel were wounded after Iran-backed militants in Western Iraq launched multiple rockets and ballistic missiles on Saturday (local time) targeting Washington's al-Assad Airbase in Western Iraq, said US Central Command. CENTCOM said that several US personnel are...
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Flight operations may be affected at the Delhi airport due to the dense fog on Sunday, as per the Delhi airport. Sharing a passenger advisory on its official X handle, the Delhi airport said that passengers are requested to contact the airline concerned for updated flight...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will offer prayers in Sri Kothandarama Swamy temple at Dhanushkodi in the district on Sunday and also visit Arichalmunai, which is said to be the place from where the Ram Setu was built. The PM will perform pooja and darshan at Sri Kothandarama Swamy temple,...
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MP ex-CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
A special court in Jabalpur on Saturday ordered registration of a criminal defamation case against Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party chief VD Sharma, former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and ex-minister Bhupendra Singh on a petition by Congress' Rajya Sabha member Vivek Tankha. In...
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A fire broke out in Trikuta hills, located a few kilometres away from the Vaishno Devi shrine atop in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district, on Saturday night, officials said. The fire is being brought under control by forest department, shrine board officials and security personnel, they...
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EAM S Jaishankar and UNGA President Dennis Francis/File image
President of the United Nations General Assembly Dennis Francis is undertaking an official visit to India from January 22 to 26 during which he will visit New Delhi, Jaipur and Mumbai and also meet External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, according to an official statement issued by his...
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The chief priest of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Saturday demanded an investigation after photographs purportedly showing the uncovered eyes of the idol of Ram Lalla were leaked before its January 22 consecration. The first image of the new idol placed inside the sanctum sanctorum of the...
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