Thousands of tourists stranded after landslides hit North Sikkim

Thousands of tourists stranded after landslides hit North Sikkim

Follow Us on Google News Gangtok, April 25 (IANS) More than 1,000 tourists have been stranded in various locations in North Sikkim due to continuous heavy rainfall and landslides. Police sources have informed that around 200 tourist vehicles are currently stuck at Chungthang Gurudwara and the ITBP camp, while approximately 1,000 tourists remain stranded in … Read more

Life-changing: PM Vishwakarma Yojana, empowering thousands of artisans with training, loans in MP

Life-changing: PM Vishwakarma Yojana, empowering thousands of artisans with training, loans in MP

Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Thousands of unemployed individuals in Chhindwara and Pandhurna in Madhya Pradesh are receiving much-needed support to grow and establish their own businesses under the PM Vishwakarma Yojana, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The scheme, aimed at empowering artisans, offers training and financial assistance to … Read more

Eid prayers held peacefully in J&K as thousands throng to mosques

Eid prayers held peacefully in J&K as thousands throng to mosques

Follow Us on Google News Srinagar, March 31 (IANS) Eid prayers were offered on Monday throughout Jammu and Kashmir with the largest congregation of devotees offering these prayers at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Thousands of devout Muslims gathered at various Eidgahs throughout the union territory (UT), offering thanksgiving prayers on Eid-ul-Fitr following the completion … Read more

After nightlong prayers on ‘Shab-e-Qadr,’ thousands offer Friday prayers in J&K

After nightlong prayers on ‘Shab-e-Qadr,’ thousands offer Friday prayers in J&K

Follow Us on Google News Srinagar, March 28 (IANS) Thousands of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir offered the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan after nightlong prayer and recitation of the holy Quran during the ‘Shab-e-Qadr’. Muslims engage in nightlong prayer and recitation of the holy Quran on the 26th day of … Read more

Robert Vadra on Sambhal’s namaz restrictions: People have their own ways of praying, like thousands at Kumbh Mela (IANS Interview)

Robert Vadra on Sambhal's namaz restrictions: People have their own ways of praying, like thousands at Kumbh Mela (IANS Interview)

Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) In a candid conversation with IANS, Robert Vadra, businessman and husband of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, expressed his concerns over the growing trend of ‘divisive politics’ and the recent ban on offering namaz in public spaces in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district. He brought up … Read more

I-T Dept Detects Thousands of Non-PAN Accounts in J&K Bank

JAMMU: The Investigation Wing of the Income Tax Department has detected thousands of non-PAN (Permanent Account Number) accounts of different categories in several branches of Jammu and Kashmir Bank with transactions of lakhs of crores of rupees with the sole objective of keeping huge quantum of money outside the purview of taxation. Reliable sources said … Read more

Surat’s new railway underpass brings relief to thousands of motorists

Surat's new railway underpass brings relief to thousands of motorists

Surat, March 2 (IANS) Surat commuters in Gujarat have received an infrastructural boost with the inauguration of a Rs 54-crore, 502-metre-long railway underpass bridge connecting Limbayat and Dindoli. The longest railway underpass in the state, built jointly by the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and the Gujarat government’s Urban Development Department, was officially opened to the … Read more

Thousands hit streets for Dharavi’s development, demand early resolution of their demands

Thousands hit streets for Dharavi’s development, demand early resolution of their demands

Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) Thousands of residents from Dharavi took to the streets on Saturday, staging demonstrations and protests over the unhygienic and pitiable situation in the city’s densely populated slum. The protesters voiced their concerns over scarcity of clean water, poor sanitation and the unhygienic conditions in Asia’s largest slum and also engaged in … Read more

Thousands spent holy ‘Shab-e-Barat’ in prayer, penance in Kashmir

Thousands spent holy ‘Shab-e-Barat’ in prayer, penance in Kashmir

Srinagar, Feb 14 (IANS) Thousands of Muslim devotees spent the holy night of ‘Shab-e-Barat’ in prayer and penance in Kashmir as mosques and shrines reverberated with praises of Allah and reverence to the Prophet. Displaying their generational commitment to the tolerant, eclectic, all-encompassing message of the Prophet, devout Muslims remained in prayer at different places … Read more