The BJP government in Gujarat has decided to offer financial assistance of Rs 5,000 per person from the state’s tribal community for pilgrimage to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, Tourism and Pilgrimage Development Minister Purnesh Modi said.Addressing a gathering in the Shabari Dham — a pilgrim site in Gujarat’s Dangs district associated with Lord Sri…Continue Reading
Unidentified burglars broke into a house at Talpalipada in Bolangir district in the absence of the owners and decamped with the cash and valuables. Incidentally, the audacious crime took place when the family was away following the death of a girl child sometime back. The burglary was reported to the police only after the family discovered…Continue Reading
Ahead of the Panchayat Elections in Odisha, the State government on Saturday released the draft reservation list for the post of Zilla Parishad president in all the 30 districts of the State.Amid a state-wide backlash over inadequate representation of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the other posts in the three-tier elections to the Panchayati…Continue Reading
The Congress Working Committee on Saturday decided that the elections to the post of Congress president will be held in September next year, sources said.During a nearly five-hour-long meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), which is the party’s highest decision-making body, various leaders, including chief ministers Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan, Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh…Continue Reading
In the first Pigskin Profit of the season, I picked Georgia — ranked behind Alabama, Clemson, Oklahoma and Ohio State — to win the national championship, but I didn’t expect the Bulldogs to become the betting favorite so soon, if ever. I certainly wouldn’t have expected it with Kirby Smart starting his backup quarterback in…Continue Reading
ATOMIC CITY, Idaho — People in this remote, high-desert town still talk about the alleged mysterious love triangle that, 60 years ago, triggered a murder-suicide — and resulted in the world’s first fatal nuclear explosion. The accident never got the same attention as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) or Fukushima (2011). But the sensational…Continue Reading
Mayor de Blasio’s Fifth Avenue Busway plan would drastically reduce car traffic between East 34th and 59th streets — a disaster for businesses during the holiday shopping season. Annie Wermiel/NY Post Your Fifth Avenue holiday stocking will likely have a lump of coal in it this year. City Hall — the Bill de Blasio nuthouse…Continue Reading
Across the country, millions of high school seniors are already preparing college applications for next fall. Those who apply to highly selective universities will be engaged in a struggle for very few spots. Last year, my university, Johns Hopkins, admitted 2,477 students from a pool of 38,513 applications. An offer of admission can be transformational,…Continue Reading
After announcing her split with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, fashion icon Grimes was photographed reading Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto,” the unreadable chunk of Victorian propaganda that is normally inflicted only on unsuspecting undergrads by grouchy professors who incorrectly feel that their labor is undervalued. Grimes said on Instagram that with paparazzi following…Continue Reading
If you’ve never lived in or visited the U.S. Southwest, you might picture it as a desert that is always hot and dry. But this region experiences a monsoon in the late summer that produces thunderstorms and severe weather, much like India’s famous summer deluges. And this year, it generated a lot of rain. July…Continue Reading