AJMER (RAJASTHAN): Pandit Yogesh Kumar Mishra was busy performing the daily rituals at the century-old Annapurneshwar Mahadev Mandir, which is located at the entrance of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah market. The holy month of Sawan, a religious month for Lord Shiva followers, has begun and Pandit Mishra, a third-generation priest, has started preparations as […]

AJMER: A court in Ajmer has sent Gauhar Chishti, Ajmer Dargah Khadim, to seven days of custody by the Rajasthan Police following his dramatic overnight arrest from Hyderabad. Chishti was arrested on Thursday for raising provocative slogans against former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma. He was presented before the concerned magistrate on Friday who sent him […]

NEW DELHI: Congress’ 148-day Bharat Jodo Yatra will begin on October 2 under the leadership of former party chief Rahul Gandhi covering 3,500 km in 12 states and two union territories from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The announcement was made after all the Presidents of the state units of the party and frontal organizations met here […]

NEW DELHI: Ajmer Sharif Dargah’s Khadim Syed Sarwar Chishti, who threatened a movement that would “shake India” following the Nupur Sharma row, is once again in controversy.  An old video has surfaced online showing the religious leader meeting with members of Islamic extremist outfits Popular Front of India and its political wing Social Democratic Party […]

  NEW DELHI: Kerala Governor and Islamic scholar Arif Mohammad Khan has blamed the extremist Islamic teachings imparted in madaras of India for incidents like the Udaipur beheading. Speaking to The New Indian, Khan said, “Whatever was broadcasted on TV and the expression of these two men (the two killers) after beheading that person wasn’t […]

JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN): The ghastly beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur by Islamic extremists over a social-media post has sent shockwaves across India. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has arrested seven people during the course of the investigation. Almost two weeks after the incident, The New Indian spoke to three veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) […]

  In an exclusive interview with The New Indian, the former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat talks about the contentious issue of the Uniform Civil Code. The national general secretary of the Indian National Congress also said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named Draupadi Murmu as their candidate for the Presidential election to appease […]

NEW DELHI: On Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 121st birth anniversary, his nephew Chittatosh Mookerjee sensationally claimed the ideals of his uncle and that of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are different, in an unhinged interview with The New Indian. Reacting to it, the Congress slammed BJP on the birth anniversary of the Jan Sangh founder, whose sacrifices […]

  KOLKATA (WEST BENGAL): Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, whose sacrifice in Jammu and Kashmir region where he died in detention, has often been invoked by his outfit’s by-product BJP, was not a religious zealot who sought to establish the Hindutva in India, his 93-year-old nephew has asserted on his 121st birth anniversary. As […]

NEW DELHI: The ‘telly drama’ came alive on the streets of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad when police from two states –Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh – reached to nab TV journalist, Rohit Ranjan, who is an accused in two different cases, at his residence. The police teams from both states had a spat and physical confrontation, much […]