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KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced Sunday that her govt would pay Rs 10,000 crore in DA arrears to nine lakh state employees and pensioners from March and hike the monthly honorarium for Hindu priests and Muslim muezzins by Rs 500 to Rs 2,000, squeezing in both just before the model code of conduct kicked…
NEW DELHI: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced a Rs 500 increase in the monthly honorarium for priests and muezzins in West Bengal, hours before the Election Commission is scheduled to announce the poll dates for assembly elections in four poll bound states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. She also announced the…
NEW DELHI: The wife of a priest was stabbed to death inside a temple located on the premises of a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing society in east Delhi’s Mansarovar Park on Sunday. Within hours, police detained a suspect. He told cops that he wanted to kill the priest, Mahesh Sharma, as the latter harboured…
AGRA: A day after several treasure rooms (toshkhana) of Mathura’s Banke Bihari temple were ordered to be reopened by a Supreme Court-appointed panel for the first time in 54 years on Dhanteras, the shrine’s priests on Sunday claimed that gold and silver bars, gemstones and precious coins were found inside a long box in one…
Panaji: The St Francis Xavier Church compound in Chicalim had an unusual gathering on Monday evening. There were dogs of different breeds, cats too, and at least one person stood expectantly with a bowl full of guppies or rainbow fish.According to the registration list, there should have been 60 people with their pets, some of…
