Bhubaneswar, 27/2: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated Mission Shakti Bazar here in the city. Opening the MSB, the CM said that it will be a strong platform to support sustainable livelihoods for women in rural and semi urban areas of the state. It has been developed under 5T initiative to promote…
UP, ,27/2:Amid concerns over cross-voting and the party chief whip quitting while polling was underway in the Rajya Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday warned action will be taken against such MLAs. The SP’s chief whip in state Assembly Manoj Pandey quit the party on Tuesday, the jolt coming a day after he…
Chandigarh, 27/2: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday named three sitting MLAs and two former MPs to fight the Lok Sabha elections from four seats in Delhi and one in Haryana, where the party has entered into an alliance with the Congress. The party named sitting MLAs Somnath Bharti (New Delhi), Sahiram Pahalwan (South…
New Delhi, 27/2: Group Captains Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are the four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan, the maiden space mission of India. Prime Minister Narendran Modi bestowed ‘astronaut wings’ to the four at a function at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. He also…
Patna, 27/2: A vehicle in RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s convoy met with an accident in Purnea district of Bihar, late last night. According to PTI, at least one person was reportedly killed while six others were injured in the accident. Tejashwi Yadav is currently on the state-wide Jan Vishwas Yatra. Yadav will be on a…
UP, 27/2: Samajwadi Party MLA and leader Manoj Kumar Pandey resigned from the post of Samajwadi Party Chief Whip today as voting in the elections for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh is under way.. This comes after eight MLAs of the Samajwadi Party did not attend a meeting called by party chief…
Sweden, 26/2: Sweden is ready to take its responsibility in NATO, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday after Hungary’s parliament voted in favour of ratifying the Nordic country’s bid to join the military alliance. Hungary on Monday became the final NATO member to approve Sweden’s application from 2022 to join the alliance in response…
Mumbai, 26/2:Vijay Shekhar Sharma has stepped down as part-time non-executive Chairman of Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL), and the board of the bank has been reconstituted. The Reserve Bank has barred the PPBL from accepting deposits and credits from any customer post-March 15 for persistent non-compliances and continued material supervisory concerns in the bank.
Waynad, 26/2:CPI senior leader Annie Raja will contest as Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate at Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, where Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi is most likely to be in the fray for the second consecutive time. CPI decided to field a candidate of national stature at Wayanad as Congress’s national leader…
New Delhi, 26/2: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday told the Supreme Court that he made a mistake by retweeting a “defamatory” video by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee against BJP IT Cell in 2018, prompting the top court to ask the trial court not to proceed against them. “I do not mind saying it is…
