Bhubaneswar, : Lok Sabha MP from Kandhamal Dr Achyuta Samanta has expressed thanks and deepest gratitude to the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on behalf of the people of his constituency for extending financial assistance to MBBS student Ifu Mallik from Kandhamal district. Ifu, who cracked the NEET exam and secured admission at a medical college in…
New Delhi, 11/12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation projects to the tune of a whopping Rs 75,000 crore in Maharashtra on December 11. This includes the inauguration of the Samruddhi Mahamarg, the biggest expressway of India which connects Mumbai to Nagpur. The 701-km expressway…
Washington DC, 11/12: Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said on Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. The blue checkmark was originally…
Beijing, 11/12: A high-level US delegation will travel to China next week to follow up on President Joe Biden’s recent talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and prepare for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit there early next year, the US State Department said on Saturday. The US announcement follows comments by a…
New Delhi, 12/10: Google’s email service Gmail was down for some users on Saturday, according to data on Downdetector. As of 8:30 pm, over 300 users reported outage of Gmail services. Most users said that they were having troubles receiving mails, with a small number reporting server connection issues.
New Delhi, 10/12: Ushering in a new era in the country’s sports administration, the legendary P T Usha was on Saturday elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The 58-year-old Usha, a multiple Asian Games gold medallist and fourth place finisher in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 400m hurdles…
New Delhi, 10/12: The blame game between the AAP and the BJP has begun just three days after the announcement of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) poll results, with both sides alleging poaching of councillors by the other party. BJP leaders including national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala and Delhi unit media cell head…
Dhaka, 10/12: Ishan Kishan smashed the fastest double hundred in the history of ODI cricket as India beat Bangladesh by 227 runs in the inconsequential third and final match in Chattogram on Saturday. Put in to bat, Kishan blasted 210 off 131 balls, while Virat Kohli (113) also slammed his first ODI hundred…
10/12: Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu who headed the Congress campaign committee in Himachal Pradesh is likely to be the next Chief Minister, party sources said on Saturday. The sources said the party high command has cleared the name of Sukhu, the 58-year-old MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district, for the top job. The…
New Delhi, 10/12: Amid a section in the party questioning Rahul Gandhi’s strategy to concentrate on Bharat Jodo Yatra and not devote more time for campaigning, Congress on Saturday defended the focus on the Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘padayatra’, saying the Gujarat results did not have an impact on it as it is “not a ‘chunav…
