‘As long as there are people who approach the gods with greedy hearts, there will be priests with greedy hearts to receive them’ At a crowded shrine, a line of devotees stretches for blocks. Each person carries an expensive offering. Some have come to pray for a family member’s health, but many arrive with other…

SRINAGAR: Grief paused at a border that rarely yields. A coffin set by the narrow Kishanganga river in Keran sector of J&K became a bridge of sight, if not touch, as mourners gathered on both sides of LoC, calling out across distance for a final farewell.In Keran — a village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district…

Govt Friday urged Dhaka to expedite the verification process for suspected Bangladeshi illegal immigrants to facilitate their deportation to the country. The MEA said that asfar as deportation of these people is concerned, there is a bilateral mechanism in place. “We refer these cases to the Bangladesh side for them to verify the nationality of…

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata party on Thursday hit out at the All India Trinamool Comgress (TMC), dismissing the latter allegations on postal ballot box tampering. On the accusations that the BJP “in active collusion” with the Election Commission “is opening ballot boxes without the presence of any relevant party stakeholders”, BJP leader Tapas Roy…