Shimla: Thirty-four incidents of landslide, flash flood and cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh owing to heavy rainfall on Saturday claimed 16 lives, officials said, adding eight others have been missing. Mandi, Kangra and Chamba were the worst affected districts, officials said. The railway bridge over the Chakki river on the border of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh also…
Shimla: The government headed by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has ensured that Himachal Pradesh emerges as frontrunner in development with its hard work, dedication and commitment to ensure welfare of the people and all this was possible due to the ‘double engine governments’, BJP president J.P. Nadda on Saturday. Addressing a public meeting at Paonta…
Thiruvananthapuram: Ever since coming under attack from Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the gold smuggling case in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan rarely comes before the media. However, on Saturday, Vijayan turned up at a conference organised by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists here, and literally gave a dressing-down to the scribes, giving them…
Shimla: Amid heavy rains and cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh, the Shimla-Kalka National Highway 5 was damaged due to a massive landslide near Shoghi on Saturday, hampering the traffic. No casualties have been reported so far, although the traffic was diverted via Shoghi-Mehli bypass, a senior police officer told IANS. In another incident, Sudesh Mokhta, director of…
Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra directed to expedite the preparation of a comprehensive wildlife (WL) management plan for newly allotted coal block areas. He gave this direction while reviewing the status of forest clearance and wildlife management in newly allotted coal block areas of Angul district in a high-level meeting held on hybrid mode from…
Bhubaneswar, : Odisha Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal on Saturday inaugurated KIIT International School’s 9th edition of the Model United Nations 2022 and shared his vision of a society that promotes an integrated education that brings the teacher, the student and the parents on the same pedestal. The Model United Nations (MUN) is the first of its kind…
Bhubaneswar: A program to create awareness about the harmful effect of Parthenium hysterophorus, a noxious weed which invades pastures and farmland causing disastrous loss of crop yield, was organised by the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), faculty of agricultural sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), on Saturday. The program was jointly organised by IAS, the…
Paradeep, : Complementing the efforts of the district administration to effectively address the flood situation, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) under its CSR initiative as part of Disaster Management Relief & Rehabilitation measureshas provided relief assistance to the flood affected people of Kujang block in Jagatsinghpur District and Mahakalapada and Marsaghai block in Kendrapara…
China, 19/8: A team led by an Indian-origin researcher has discovered a key vulnerability across all major variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, including the recently emerged BA.1 and BA.2 omicron subvariants. The weakness can be targeted by neutralising antibodies, potentially paving the way for treatments that would be universally effective…
New Delhi, 19/8: A liquor trader paid Rs 1 crore to a company managed by an associate of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the CBI has claimed in its FIR on alleged corruption in the framing and implementation of the excise policy 2021-22. The agency, which carried out raids at Sisodia’s official residence…
