UP, 25/5: After being at loggerheads with the party leadership for the past couple of years, senior MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday announced the end of his decades-long association with the Congress after filing his nomination papers as an independent candidate for Rajya Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh with Samajwadi Party’s support. The…
Mumbai, 25/5: Morning flights of budget carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday were affected as its systems suffered an attempted ransomware attack on Tuesday night. The company informed about the issue on its official Twitter handle and updated that the situation has been ‘contained and rectified’ and the ‘flights are operating normally now’. “Certain…
New Delhi, 25/5: After Hindu organisations held a ‘Tambula Prashne’ on Wednesday at Sri Ramanjaneya Bhajana Mandira at Thenkulipadi in Ganjimutt to find a solution to the controversy over temple-like structure that was noticed during the demolition of a mosque in Malali last month, the police have strengthened security near the masjid. ‘Tambula…
Texas,25/5:A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago. The slayings took place just before noon at Robb Elementary School, where second through…
Puri, 24/5: In a big development, two unidentified miscreants shot dead a man near the Emar Mutt this evening. The deceased person has been identified as Shivaram Patra of Taluchha Sahi. According to sources, said that two unidentified miscreants fired two rounds of bullets at Patra from a very close range and fled the spot…
New Delhi, 24/5:Indian skipper Rohit Sharma’s abysmal form in the IPL is not a matter of concern as he will be back among the runs soon, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said on Tuesday. The record five-time IPL winning Mumbai Indians skipper had a woeful season finishing with 268 runs from 14 innings at…
Mumbai, 24/5: Oyo Hotels, the once high-flying Indian startup, is shelving plans for an initial public offering in 2022 after a market downturn that would hurt its valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. The board of Oyo, formally known as Oravel Stays Ltd., talked through a change in the offering’s timing during…
New Delhi,24/5:India is considering cutting an import levy on soybean and sunflower oils, another step in a series of measures the country has taken to cool surging local prices of food. The government is deliberating whether to reduce the agriculture infrastructure and development cess, which is currently 5 per cent, or abolish it, according…
Bhubaneswar, 24/5: Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today launched Olympic Values Education Programme in 90 schools of Odisha on virtual mode. It has been started as a pilot project in schools of Rourkela and Bhubaneswar. It will be expanded to other schools in coming days. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Shri Patnaik…
Chandigarh, 24/5:Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla was sacked from the state Cabinet on Tuesday and arrested on corruption charges with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asserting that his government has zero-tolerance towards corruption. The Aam Aadmi Party has been in power in Punjab for barely two months. The chief minister himself announced the removal…
