New Delhi, 27/3: India is leaning toward continuing to import coking coal from Russia, the steel minister said on Sunday, seeming to buck a global trend to shun Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.     “We are moving in the direction of importing coking coal from Russia,” Ramchandra Prasad Singh told a conference in…

Balasore, 27/3: India on Sunday successfully carried out a test firing of the medium-range surface-to-air missile air defence system off the coast of Balasore in Odisha, DRDO said.     The system is part of the Indian Army. In the test, the missile secured a direct hit at the target at a very far-off distance,…

Bhubaneswar, 27/3:Senior IAS, IPS Officers and members of a number of Service Associations today met Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik and congratulated him for the spectacular success at the recently held Panchayat and Urban Local Body Elections.   Thanking the officers for the goodwill gesture, the Chief Minister asked the officials to work with more…

Kyiv, 27/3: The second black box has been recovered from a crashed China Eastern passenger plane, state media reported Sunday.     The jet was flying between the cities of Kunming and Guangzhou on Monday when it nosedived into a mountainside with 132 people on board, all of whom were killed.   The cause of…

Kyiv, 27/3: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visibly irritated, on Saturday demanded Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stockpiles and asked whether they were afraid of Moscow.     Several countries have promised to send anti-armour and anti-aircraft missiles as well as small arms but Zelenskyy said Kyiv needed tanks, planes…

Cuttack, 26/3: In a recent development  BJD’s Subash Singh wins the mayor election  with a margin of 45,206 votes from Congress candidate Giribala Behera. BJD got 1,13,562 votes while Congress and BJP received 68,356 and 49,223 votes respectively . With this Biju Janata Dal won all 3 mayor seats.

Bhubaneswar, 26/3: In a big development, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Sulochana Das has  been elected as  Mayor of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC).   Sulochana polled 1,74,562 votes and trounced her nearest rival Suniti Mund of the BJP by a margin of 61,143 votes.   Notably, She is the first woman to be elected as…

Bhubaneswar, 26/3: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today felicitated two Odia International Sports  person Sriyanka Sadangi and Jayanti Behera at Naveen Niwas at Naveen Niwas.   The Chief Minister lauded the two girls athletes for their success and said that they have brought glory to the state and inspired other players. He said they had…