Supreme Court (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday strongly criticised a Christian Army soldier for refusing to enter temple and gurdwara for collective religious practices with his regiment. The top court said his conduct amounted to “gross indiscipline.“A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi went on to describe him as...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma speaking in the Assam Assembly on November 25, 2025. Photo: YouTube/Assam Legislative Assembly Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday (November 25, 2025) tabled a bill in the Assembly to ban polygamy. With permission from the Speaker Biswajit Daimary, Mr. Sarma introduced The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill,...

A video of a US-based couple has taken Instagram by storm after the woman opened up about why they chose to move back to India after 17 years in America. She says everything changed once she became a mother. After having twins, she was given just six weeks of maternity leave, barely enough time to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hoisted the sacred saffron flag atop the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya during a grand Dhwajarohan ceremony, symbolising the formal completion of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple. The ritual was performed during the highly auspicious ‘Abhijeet Muhurat’. A 22-by-11-foot saffron flag, intricately embroidered with golden symbols of the Sun, the...

With schools and several government offices in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh observing a holiday today to mark the 350th martyrdom anniversary of Guru Tegh Bahadur, many people are unsure whether banks are also shut.The confusion stems from the fact that November 25 has been declared a public holiday for government institutions in both states. Are...

Kozhikode: The police on Monday arrested two youths for allegedly smuggling synthetic drugs worth ₹50 lakh. The accused have been identified as Mohammed Irfan, 29, and M.C. Shahad, 27. According to police sources, the seized substances included 250 grams of suspected MDMA, 45 grams of suspected ecstasy drugs, and 1.5 grams of suspected LSD stamps....

The swearing-in of Justice Surya Kant as the 53rd Chief Justice of India, who will remain in office till February 9, 2027, sparked celebrations in his village Petwar, in Haryana’s Hisar district, where the villagers distributed laddoos. The Petwar village sarpanch, Urmila, said “We will host a grand function in our village chaupal whenever he...

Ayodhya is bracing for the Dhwajarohan (flag hoisting) ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya today, and a grand event is set to take place in a few hours, in the afternoon. The ceremony marks the completion of the construction of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple. According to the priests, the flag-hoisting ceremony will be...

NEW DELHI: India and Canada have agreed to resume talks for a free trade agreement (FTA), commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday as both countries aim to strengthen economic and trade ties. “We have agreed to begin negotiations for a high ambition Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and double the trade between...

With just two weeks left for the local body elections in Kerala, postal ballots, or rather their absence, have come into the spotlight. The State Election Commission (SEC), which manages the elections to the local bodies, has received several requests for postal ballots, both from government and civilian groups, in the run-up to the elections....