New Delhi, 24/2:Congress may sacrifice its claim on one of the two seats in Meghalaya to strike a deal with the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha elections, as both the parties revived efforts to restart the once broken negotiations. Trinamool and Congress had been on opposite poles over the former’s insistence…
Berlin, 23/2: Germany on Friday joined the small group of countries and jurisdictions that have legalised cannabis when the Bundestag passed a law allowing individuals and voluntary associations to grow and hold limited quantities of the drug. The law passed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling three-party coalition legalises cultivating up to three plants for private…
New Delhi, 23/2: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday it has asked the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to examine a request from Paytm, formally known as One 97 Communications, to become a third party application. If approved, this would allow Paytm to continue processing payments via India’s popular unified payments…
Mumbai, ,23/2: More than 60 per cent of shareholders of edtech firm Byju’s on Friday voted for the removal of founder and CEO Byju Raveendran and his family over alleged “mismanagement and failures” at what was once India’s hottest tech startup. Prosus – one of the six investors who had called the extraordinary general meeting…
Bhubaneswar, 23/2:Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, today, launched sports infrastructure projects worth Rs. 660 crore that includes 48 multipurpose indoor stadiums, Cuttack Table Tennis Academy, Rourkela Gymnastics Academy and 12 hockey training centres. On this occasion he also laid the foundation stone for 11 sports projects. These projects have been taken up under 5T initiative to…
Bhubaneswar, 23/2: Kalyani Steel has signed an MoU with Govt. of Odisha today in the presence of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik for the establishment of a Titanium Metal & Aerospace Components Manufacturing, and Integrated Advanced Specialty Steel and Automotive Components Manufacturing Complex in Odisha. This strategic partnership aims to set up a comprehensive…
Chandigarh, 23/2:Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore and a government job for the sister of farmer Shubhkaran Singh who was killed at the Khanauri border point. Singh (21), a native of Bathinda, was killed amid alleged ‘police firing’ and 12 police personnel injured in clashes at Khanauri…
Bilaspur, 23/2: On 22.02.2024, Bilashpur Police informed to RPF CTC about missing of two minor girls from 07.45 hrs of 21.02.2024, while they were going to School [Loyola School] & in this regard a case has been registered at Sarkanda PS [Dist. Bilashpur] vide No.0252/2024, dated -21.02.2024, u/s- 363 IPC. The Police Officials also shared…
Mumbai, 23/2: Former Maharashtra CM Manohar Joshi passed away in the wee hours of Friday. He was 86. Dr Joshi, popularly known as ‘Sir’, was one of the close aides of late Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray. He had been admitted to the ICU of P D Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai after suffering a cardiac…
Agra, 22/2:With the seat-sharing deal between the two parties having been finalised, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav would join senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ at Agra in Uttar Pradesh on February 25. According to the UP Congress leaders here, Rahul, whose first phase of the yatra in UP concluded on…
