The Vishva Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Saturday organised 'Shastra Puja' (weapon worship) in various blocks and districts in West Bengal on Vijaydashmi, informed sources said....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the workers of the Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh (RSS) on its 92nd foundation day....
Devotees thronged marquees and community pujas across West Bengal on Saturday to bid farewell to Goddess Durga on "Vijaya Dashami", the last day of the festival....
The influential Roman Catholic Church in Goa on Saturday cautioned against "increasing intolerance" in the coastal state, while also disapproving efforts of a section of civilian Catholic leaders to obstruct allocation of land for a burial ground for Goa's Muslim community. ...
BJP National President Amit Shah will participate in a 'padyatra' in Kerala, which will see him walk past the home of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the latter's hometown in Kannur district on October 5, as a mark of protest against the ruling CPI-M's "political violence" and also against growing jehadi terrorism, a BJP official said here...
The SGPC on Saturday rejected the one-man Justice Ranjit Singh Commission and said its President Kirpal Singh Badungar will not appear before the panel appointed by the Congress government in Punjab to look into cases of sacrilege in the state since 2015....
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Saturday attacked the government over its ambitious bullet train project, saying it would "be like demonetisation" and said that railways should instead spend money on safety, better infrastructure and better facilities....
A day after 22 people died in a stampede on a railway foot overbridge in Mumbai, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that 200 officers will be relocated from headquarters as field staff to enhance ground operations and that additional escalators are being sanctioned at crowded Mumbai stations....
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday appointed new Governors for five states, including Tamil Nadu, which got its first full-time Governor in a year amid the continuing political crisis. Banwarilal Purohit, Congress-turned BJP leader, will occupy the Raj Bhavan in the southern state....
Riding high on the popularity of desi products, Yoga guru Swami Ramdev said by 2018-19, his fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company, Patanjali, will overtake Unilever and others and by 2020-21 Patanjali would become the world's largest FMCG brand....
