Hyderabad, 9/6: Congress leaders Tuesday staged a sit-in protest in front of the Election Commission office in Delhi after they were not allowed inside. The leaders including KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Sachin Pilot, Bhupesh Baghel and others had reached the poll body office over the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for Rajya Sabha polls from…
The Odisha government has revoked the suspension of Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) Suryakant Behera, who was suspended earlier this year in connection with the controversial elephant death case in Kandhamal district’s Balliguda Forest Division.Following the revocation of his suspension, Behera has been posted as Enforcement ACF in the Regional Chief Conservator of Forests (RCCF)…
Bhubaneswar: In a significant move to resolve a long-standing cultural dispute, the West Bengal Government on Tuesday announced the removal of the word “Dham” from the name of the Jagannath temple in Digha. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari made the announcement at Nabanna (secretariat) in the presence of Puri MP Sambit Patra.The facility, previously referred to…
Bhubaneswar: BJP nominee Debashish Samantaray’s nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha by-election from Odisha were found valid, sources said Tuesday.Samantaray had filed four sets of nomination papers for the June 18 by-poll. Following the verification process, election authorities accepted all required documents, officially clearing his candidature for the contest, the sources added.The by-election was…
New Delhi, 9/6: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chairman N Chandrasekaran on Tuesday said that the company expects hiring across IT sector to slow down as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a bigger part of the workforce. Speaking at the company’s annual general meeting, Chandrasekaran said the future workforce at TCS would include an equal number of…
Bangalore, 9/6:Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar is known for his larger than life personality and enjoys a massive following among the maases. However, a crowd of DKS supporters trying to grab a half-eaten apple thrown by him still came as a shock for many.
Mumbai, 9/6: India’s sharp increase in gold import tariffs is fuelling a resurgence in smuggling that could exceed 100 metric tons this year, as soaring grey market margins allow smugglers to undercut banks and refiners of the precious metal, industry officials and bullion dealers said.India, the world’s biggest gold market after China, more than doubled…
Malkangiri, June 9: In a significant success against Left Wing Extremism, joint teams of the District Voluntary Force (DVF) and Border Security Force (BSF) recovered a massive cache of arms, ammunition, explosives, and IED-making materials from a Maoist hideout deep inside the forests of Malkangiri district on Tuesday.Nearly 32 categories of Maoist-related materials were seized,…
Citing concerns among millions of devotees of Shree Jagannath, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has written to his West Bengal counterpart, Suvendu Adhikari, urging him to drop the word ‘Dham’ from the ‘Digha Jagannath Dham’ complex in Purba Medinipur district.Citing concerns among millions of devotees of Shree Jagannath, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi…
Bhubaneswar: A woman was allegedly sexually abused at a beauty parlour in the capital city of Odisha recently. Khandagiri police have arrested the parlour owner.As per reports, a woman who was seeking a part-time job in the capital city was called to a beauty parlour where she was allegedly sexually abused.Police have recorded the victim’s…
